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Aoide: A Virtual Browsing Exploration for MLibrary
Team Aoide School of Information University of Michigan
Gin L Chieng, Pei-Chih (Bell) Shih, Pei-Yao Hung, Sylvia Szu-Hsuan Lai, Yi-Ying Lin
Project focus & Methods
Project Focus
� MLibrary audio collection
� Exploration for the online materials
Goal
� Understanding users’ behaviors
� Developing innovative methods
Design Process & Methods � Brainstorming
� Interviewing
� Personas & Scenarios
� Comparative Analysis
� Prototyping
� Usability Testing
� Website Mock-up
Key Findings
Topics � User Behavior
� User Preference on Design
User Behavior � Adopt information seeking techniques like search
engine, such as keyword search � Ex, Google search; Library resources online search
� Need specific information to be explicitly displayed on the explore page � Images: album covers
� Text: album name and artist
User preference � Music sites tend to adopt information visualization
� AllMusic, Amazon music, and Pandora
� Users are easily influenced by peer recommendations
Prototyping
Paper Prototype � Draft sketches of the web interface
� Finalized our design
� Main pages
home page, result page, explore page, and profile page
Home Page Result Page
Explore Page Profile Page
Interaction Map � How information flow between pages
� How different pages interact with each other
� Interaction Map � Visualize major functions
� Highlight possible routes
Mid-fi Prototype � Interactive prototype
� Focus on home page, explore page, & profile page
� Pay more attention on function
Usability Test
Usability Test � Recruiting: 10 students
� Age: 23-35
� Different backgrounds: music, information science, and engineering.
� Domestic & International : Unites State, India, Korea, and Taiwan
Result � Explore page is confusing and need to address the
relation between albums
Redesign
Result � More guidance displayed on interface is needed
� Add more description
Redesign
Result
� Browsing history is useful but requires more details about each album and artist � More text including artist name and album name.
Redesign
Demonstration Video
Discussion
Feedbacks from expoSItion � ExpoSItion: student projects exhibition at the
School of Information
� Participants � Students
� Librarians � Corporate associates
� Professors
Feedbacks � Browsing Experience
� Department Favorite List
Surprising Feedback Music Graduate Student
Aoide as a great resource for music students.
“The timeline is an example of how the music school professors thinks – it’s their mental model all laid out in their minds. And they want students to look for relationships between the different dynamics in consideration to artist, time and genre.”
Future design ideas: Timeline as generable to different variables.
Limitations � Aoide designed as an intermediate gateway to
the MLibrary’s audio collection.
Limitation � Privacy Concerns with Checked-out Records
� Non-personal recommendation system
Conclusion � Aoide as a reflective design.
� Innovative Browsing Experience that allows for input and output. � Strategy to retain users for using MLibrary’s audio
resources � Raise awareness
� Increase usage � Opportunities to explore
Q&A Team Aoide
Gin L Chieng, Pei-Chih (Bell) Shih, Pei-Yao Hung, Sylvia Szu-Hsuan Lai, Yi-Ying Lin