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SmartSenior Angela Gong, Joanie Hollberg, Maggie Skortcheva, Rassan Walker
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Overview Mission Statement SmartSenior
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Mission Statement ●Teach senior citizens how to effectively utilize their smartphones ●Reduce anxieties of using, or unwillingness to use, a smartphone ●Encourage seniors to become natural smartphone users
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Representative Tasks Learning How to Tap ●Seniors aren’t comfortable with touch interfaces ●Want to present interactive interface to help gain tapping intuition
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Representative Tasks Making Phone Calls ●Essential task for any phone ●Confusing due to several options ●Want to provide step-by-step tutorial for using the interface to make a call
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Representative Tasks Downloading Apps from the App Store ●Extremely complex task for seniors a.Have to know how to search for apps, understand app pages, download b.What's an Apple ID? ●Want to present a contrived challenge and guide senior through solving it
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Lo-fi Prototype Structure ●Hand-drawn on paper with iPhone-sized printouts ●Dialogs and other small things on smaller pieces of paper to be overlayed ●Imported into POP app
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Scenarios Tapping Tutorial
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Scenarios Learning Phone Calls
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Scenarios Using the App Store
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Experimental Method ●Who: 50+, little to no experience with smartphone, some given chocolate ●Where: Interviewed at varying places (downtown Palo Alto, hotel lobby, home) using iPad and POP app ●What: Learn how to tap, make a phone call and download an app ●How: Observed levels of understanding, areas of confusion and speed of completion
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Experimental Results ●Seniors are like small children ●Impatient o Don't want to read everything ●Easily distracted o Icons! ●Forgetful o Can't remember steps
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Experimental Results ●Want constant feedback o "Did I do it correctly?" o "Do I continue?"
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Experimental Results ●Had trouble with small interface
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Suggested UI Changes ●Reduce the amount of text presented ●Make steps more visual and interactive ●Use larger screens for tutorial This download will teach you how to download applications like games, utilities, and almost anything you can think of!
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Suggested UI Changes ●Game-ify the tutorials ●Audio and haptic feedback
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Summary ●Gathered lots of useful data from experiments ●Found several UI improvements that could be made
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