1. Smart room office Usability testing
Štěpán Koutek
Vojtěch Brom
Smart room office - Usability testing

2. Project description
Inspection and design of possibilities of the interaction between "clever room“ (Smart room) and users.
Application of designed methods to case of the office in a company and design the simulation of those methods for usability testing.
Usabilty testing of the designed interaction system.

3. Project goals
Design "Smart-room office interaction system" and test it's usabilty on the case of one person beeing alone in the office.
Observe informations about usability of the interaction system methods from designed tests.
Especially find out the opinions of the participants on usability of each interaction method we use in the test.
Find out global usability of any clever rooms (if the participants would like to use it sometime in the future).

4. Test setup The system we want to test hasn't existed yet.
We chose three distribution chanels for interaction.
Talking head and Big screen - voice control
PC, PDA – standard control (mouse, keyboard…)
The system interface – graphical menu
Different message types
Mapping of the message depends on message type.
Automatic device switching.

5. Test setup - menu

6. Test setup - device representation
Talking head – speaker + recorded messages
Big screen – digital projector
PC – PC + VNC (automatic control)
PDA – PDA connected to notebook (atm. control)

7. Test setup - layout
testers
PDA
participant
moderator

8. Task list Four groups of tasks First three groups
each for one device
for each participant in another order
Fourth - combination of all devices
participant use devices according to his decision
Typical tasks
to receive differenet types of messages
to switch betewen devices

9. Results of the test We have tested five participants.
The participants have split to two groups with different opinions.
Against new interaction methods
They would like to use only PC
For new interaction methods
They like using voice control.
They would like bigger set of voice commands.
Possiblity of control all devices by voice.
Possibility of turn off message reading.

10. Results of the test – cont.
For new interaction methods
The usability of PDA is not so comfortable.
PDA is good in cases when they need to be mobile – not for interaction in office.
Offer device to switch instead of automatic switching.
All participants prefere simply clear text oriented interface – no virtual human face etc. is needed.
Comlete report of the test is available on

11. Thank you for your attention.