Co-design meeting notes 12/10/14

Owned by Kate Katz
Last updated: Dec 10, 2014
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New meeting times:

  • Starting this week, we will be meeting every week
  • Wednesdays 4pm ETS (every other week)
  • Fridays 1pm EST (every other week)

Using wiki vs. Google doc

  • Consensus seems to be that it's easier to make comments in Google docs.
  • Shanee can not access the document via Google, but she said that is ok
  • Send a note to whole group, letting everyone know that we are using google, 
    • Please use another color if you are editing the body of the text. 

Dana's sketches

  • Incorporating sketches and some use cases from earlier work
  • Moving through the digital literacy aspect of first discovery
    • If there seems to a problem, ex. if person clicks a key that is inappropriate
    • You can do it incrementally - if use encounters issue, we teach them what thy need to now right now
    • At minimum: Choose language
    • Want to make it possible for user use it independently
    • tutorial of how to navigate the screen
    • Are we assuming the user can point?
    • Can we use demonstration first, to avoid any digital literacy at all. 
    • Start with establishing a way of communicating which doesn't rely on any digital 
      • Asking questions might be a barrier - it might be that asking a question 
      • Through the mutability of the tools, through the intuition 
      • Are we saying that design won't solve this, but asking question will? 
      • Some people will not be familiar with these systems, and they will bounce off of them. 
      • The questions that we are asking of them (frequently commands) are intended to establish 
    • We need to daw boundaries and scope this. 
      • If a use doesn't understand that they can select a language by touching 
      • Don't know if language 
  • Whitney - one thing we have learned working with people who are low literacy and low digital lit
    • How can we try this out?
    • Moving forward with testing protocols together
    • Before we create the testing protocol we want to make sure that 
    • We have to see what works and what doesn't
  • The way to test this, is to implement different approaches, if there are different approaches, and test them. 
  • Every persona that we use had used a computer before
  • Is the primary target is those people who would not be able to use explore tools?
  • Make sure we don't miss the same population who always gets left behind.
  • Kathy - maybe the place where we might see digital literacy issues in the elder care, might be in the elder care setting. 
    • Gregg These aren't people who can't learn these things, they just haven't
    • If users don't have digital literacy and have access needs - they get left out
  • Jess- the form of a questions, don't believe that a person who has never used a computer before won't understand how to use the interface
    • If we design something simile enough 
  • Kathy - maybe one of the issues that we want to make sure of, is that in this population that we are talking about
    • The group that we would test with includes people with digital literacy issues 
    • The only way to find out is to 
  • Whitney - All three of the personas are people who cam into the library
    • There is value in having 
    • Marney's example is interesting becuase very few people will 
  • Gregg - in addition to everything else ask them, what are you interested in?
  • John - where is the common dimension between 
    • The means and the mode are secondary to the task
    • Takes us back to the gamification ideas
  • Gregg perhaps we start with this interface here, if they run into trouble, then they
  • Dana - first page may be a pre-tool, a person may have someone helping setting this up 
    • Putting a language on the first page as a pre-tool is correct becuase then we know how we can communication
  • Rich - When they get stuck like that, can we provide a question? Stated, written, in sign language?
    • If they are not interaction, then the system goes back to asking the simplest question, with the simplest response
    • We found that the space bar was the easiest to find and use
    • Whintey, if they still aren't able to respond after sometime - that's the fail gracefully kind of moment]
  • Make sure that you have means of communication before you ask them what to do
  • But I like this as a fall back, becuase then the people who don't need this, won't need to see this

On second screen we are asking several questions, could we have one question at a time?

Rich - this might be too complicated for some users

  • If we eliminated the side bar with the different icons
  • There is a progress bar on the buttom as well. 
  • The visual presence, the size of the icons on the side looks just as important
  • Will there be an issues that this is in portrait layout?
  • Next and back button would bookend the progress bar?
  • A narrow focus - two columns in ballence don't work. 
  • Won't have two things that look like the same thing
  • There will only be four screen
  • The basic functionality needs to be established here, then we will lead them to another interface where granular preferences can be established
  • Bootstrap levels: 
    • Can we communicate with you at all? 
    • Can we find your required settings? 
    • Can we adjust the screen so that you can adjust settings further?
  • We need to know what minimum font size that they need to have
    • If they can't see anything that is smaller than this, then you can't use any font smaller than this. 
    • Jess - based on where we want to start.
    • Gregg - we may need to start larger than 4x
  • Whitney - The task of setting the screen size is a task that a use is willing to engage in. 
  • Balance between getting the user through, 
  • If we make everything larger, we could almost take away the instructions