Overview

Your assignment is to propose an idea that will form the basis of a course project for this quarter. You will observe the need for good human-centered design in interactive computer systems and analyze problems that you encounter.

Project Themes

The theme for this quarter is mobile computing applied to any of the following domains:

• Health: applications that lead us to be healthy or fit
• Environment: applications that help us be aware of and reduce our environmental impact
• Government & Politics: applications that improve the political process, government transparency, and citizen participation
• Development: applications that can improve the lives of underserved populations

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In this assignment you will use the contextual inquiry methodology to learn more about the work practices of your target customers. The interview data will help you to later perform a task analysis of your idea.

Requirements

1. Interview at least three target customers (no CSE 440 classmates) using contextual inquiry.
2. Analyze new and existing tasks. Describe three tasks in moderate detail that participants will perform with your application. There should be one each of easy, moderate, and difficult tasks. Compare and contrast your tasks with any existing tasks. Remember tasks do not say how to carry out the activity.
3. Brainstorm and draw a few rough sketches of a few important screens your application will need.

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In this assignment you will use the data from your prior contextual inquiry to perform a task analysis of your project, and you will also brainstorm and develop design ideas. This assignment will help you to learn how to ideate and to better present your design ideas and the context of your project to an audience outside of your immediate team.

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In this presenation you will present the findings of your contextual inquiry and task analysis.

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You will create a video prototype illustrating each of the three scenarios using your proposed interface. Make sure to set up the story at the start of your video rather than just showing the UI interactions (though the finished videos should show both).

Video Prototype

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The goal of this assignment is to learn how to use low-fidelity prototyping in the early stages of interface design. You will first build a low-fidelity prototype and then perform a usability test.

In the next assignment, you will incorporate the results of your low-fidelity prototyping and testing into design changes for your interactive prototype.

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