horizon the direction to the end of your to-do list presenter: wing lam group members: danudet...
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HorizonThe direction to the end of your to-do list
Presenter: Wing LamGroup members: Danudet Boonyakamol, Enrique Dominguez, James Okada
Overview
• Overall problem & solution
• Contextual inquiry description & results
• Task analysis results
• 3 representative tasks
• Early design sketches
• Summary
Overall problem & solution
• increasing amount of distractions
• Help manage distractions -> more productivity
Contextual inquiry participants
• Very Focused
• Interviewed at CLUE
• Stranger in CLUE
• Results:
• long work hours
• listens to music
• rewards himself by going on Reddit
• Silences phone
• Easily distractible
• Interviewed in a café where she studies with friends
• Stranger in café
• Results:
• short study time
• focuses through absence of technology
• distracted when stuck
• motivated by fear.
Contextual inquiry participants
• Productive
• Interviewed in library
• Recruited as friend
• Results:
• motivated by deadlines
• sets some form of reward
• Unproductive
• Interviewed in his room
• Recruited as friend
• Results:
• short bursts of productivity
• No short-term goals
• Encourages himself to be distracted while working
Contextual inquiry description
• Similarities:
• Breaks• reduces stress
• level of efficiency declines drastically
• Dependence on motivation• blocking anything distracting; negative effects
• Differences:
• different ways of combating distraction• not one unique way to be productivity.
Task Analysis Questions
• Who will use Horizon?
• Mainly concentrated on people who have trouble staying productive.
• People with high productivity will have extra incentive
• Existing/Desired tasks
• Setting goals, having an incentive to be productive
• Organizing tasks
Task Analysis Questions
• How are tasks learned?
• From experience and trial and error
• Figure out which technique help them be productive
• What other tools customers have?
• Completely block out things deemed distracting
• Simple do-to list
Task Analysis Questions
• What are the time constraints on the tasks?
• Indirect time constraint: time getting organized
• Time required/left to complete goals
• What happen when things go wrong?
• Goals are not achieved on time and not as efficient.
• Customer does not achieve expected results, and will learn from mistakes
Simple task:Keeping track of tasks needed to be completed
• Frequency: high
• Importance: medium
• Current problems:
• Managing tasks is time consuming
• Managing tasks can be overwhelming
• Provides task management support
• Successful task management leads to greater productivity (Shown in CI)
Moderate task:Choosing rewards based on the users’ interests
• Frequency: medium, Importance: medium
• Provide direct and indirect rewards:
• Short-term VS and long-term rewards
• Intrinsic (joy of being productive) and Extrinsic (good grade) rewards
• Promote long-term change in behavior
Complex task:Studying with controlled distractions
• Frequency: high, Importance: high
• Distraction at the “right” time
• Lower overall distraction
• Leads to more free time and increases success rate
Design Sketches
Design Sketches
Design Sketches
Summary
• Hard to be productive and easily distracted
• Some customers optimize productivity through personalized techniques while others lack the skills.
• Horizon will increase productivity of customers and optimize their working habits to fit their style.