Interviews:
Name: Paul Rueben
0.When was last time your phone was not readily available?
-He doesn’t remember
1. Where do they usually keep their phone (pocket, book bag, purse)?
-Usually in his pocket, sometimes in the middle part of his car when he is driving
2. What was the task they wanted to perform?
-He wanted to send a text to his friend
3. What did that task involve?
-It involved pulling out his phone, finding his Paul in recent messages, writing the message, and sending the message.
4. Could you imagine preforming it on a touch screen?
-He couldn’t imagine sending a text unless it was prewritten like “I will be there in a few”
5. Other possibilities for the Smart Watch?
-That he would like to be able to receive notifications, and decide if he would like to view them or not.
-Also he would like to use it as a speedometer.
Name: Ranit Dubey
0.When was last time your phone was not readily available?
-When he was at the gym, he left it in his locker
1. Where do they usually keep their phone (pocket, book bag, purse)?
-In his pocket or on his desk
2. What was the task they wanted to perform?
-Snap Chatting
3. Describe an Event
-Opening the app, taking a picture, adding a caption, sending it to the designated parties, Looking at other apps from friends
4. Could you imagine preforming it on a touch screen?
-It might be a little to small, and you would not be able to take pictures
5. Other possibilities for the Smart Watch?
-telling the time
-something fitness related
-navigation
-couldn’t really imagine talking to your watch
Interview Summary:
-My users seem to want very different things from their watches. One of them could really only envision it as a way to receive notifications, and to respond to them accordingly. They other one envisioned something where he could use it as a tool to help him work out. Both users did not seem at all interested, using it as a phone or using it to talk to people because they both had cars. In addition, neither user felt like there was much to be done considering the lack of visual real state.
Brain Storm Ideas:
1.Have the phone a mode for useful facts about being abroad
2. Have the phone have a little button that will make your phone ring.
3. Be able to temporary hit a button where you can leave your phone behind to play music or go for a run
4. Have the sleep app on your phone monitor how many hours of sleep you get each night.
5.Have the app notify you when you are near somewhere interesting when traveling.
6. Have the smart watch glow a different color when you are in your target heartbeat.
7. Have a green screen where you can program in certain pages or activities by swiping in different codes (like on the PS2).
8. Have the watch act like a compos for the stars.
9. Have the watch tell you the temperature compared to the predicted temperature of the area you are in.
10. Possibly create some simple word games users can play while waiting on the train or such, where each edge could have a different answer like who wants to be a millionaire.
11. Have a way to easily change the brightness or volume setting on your phone for when you just get it out of your pocket and can’t see it because of the sun.
12. Be able to play the next track when listening on your headphones so you don’t have to pull your phone out of your pocket.
Prototype description:
-After with talking with fellow college students, it seems like the biggest use for a smart watch would be to assist users during work outs where they would not like to be pulling their phone out of their pockets constantly or perhaps not evening needing their phone at all. The app I designed has users connect with Spotify where users have a premade workout playlist go with the workout. The user then chooses the type of work out and how long they would like to work out. Once everything is set and they hit go. They are taken to a three-part screen where the heart rate is shown at the top, the time in the middle, and basic music controls at the bottom. At any point the user can swipe right on the time to view other representations of the time, or they can click the top to go to heart-rate, or they can swipe left to pull up their music. If they swipe left twice it will take them to the exit screen. If at any point they exit (screen goes dark), it starts back up at the main screen. At the end statistics come up where you can compare different graphs on the current workout vs. older workouts or look at how the current work out you did.
Asking Users:
I showed a group of people in my house the demo (a bunch of drawings), and asked them what they think. I provided a picture, but I will reiterate the biggest findings. First the group overall really like the idea to always be able to swipe left to leave the app. In addition, the entrance screen needs some work where the user should be able to play music from the phone if it is not already playing. They were impartial with the three-part screen before you enter the app, but they really liked the idea for the app itself.
They didn’t like my idea for being able to click and manipulate the secondary components, and instead where thinking of swiping up and down to rotate between heart-rate, music, and the time. They also didn’t like to have to swipe left for anything except exiting the app (as I previously envisioned). They thought it better to swipe right when the music is the main thing. In addition, they said, similar to the iphone you should be able to tap the time once to pause, and double tap the watch to set a lap.
With this idea about being able to pause the music when it is secondary, they were torn about. One girl said she thought you should always be able to pause the music, when the two men in the group thought that you should only be able to pause it when the music was the primary screen.
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