Milestones
Contextual Inquiry
The process of Contextual Inquiry, handily outlined by Kaufmann, is a powerful user-centric technique that facilitates high-level contextual design. To begin this process, the ActiveIM team drafted a series of questions that will be issued via interview to potential users of our currently proposed solution. Our users were generally university students, both graduate and undergraduate, in and around Michigan. Interviews were given either over the phone or in-person whenever possible. After conducting the interviews, the team gathered together for interpretation sessions wherein all the disparate feedback we had received during the interviews was aggregated and sifted in order to generate notes for the affinity diagram. The affinity diagram is a furcated chart that displays and clusters together congruent notes into meaningful motifs that can inform and challenge our solution.
Personas & Scenarios
After completing our affinity diagram we came to the conclusion that we needed to move our project scope in a slightly different direction. We found that users were looking for:
- Structure
- Motivation
- Convenience
- Ways to compare their progress with others
Lo-Fi Prototype
We began our process of creating the Lo-Fi Prototype by performing a comparative evaluation of other leading fitness applications on both the Android and iPhone. This helped us develop a list of features we wanted to include in our prototype. Both the Android and iPhone marketplaces allow users to write reviews of each application, so careful analysis of these reviews gave us insight into what worked and what failed.
Hi-Fi Prototype
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Final Presentation
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