Floe plans, May 2012 onward

Week of May 14th

• User interviews (cont’d thru week of May 21st)

  • 8-10 participants in Barcelona: UOC students

  • (and maybe some additional interviews by Mhairi, Joanna on week of May 28th?)

• SME interviews (cont’d thru week of May 21st)

  • Occupational therapist at Vision Technology Service (see SME interview on user needs and preferences for vision impaired users (May 9, 2012))

  • Public libraries staff

Week of May 21st

• Re-define UIO: problems that users face, and the goal of UIO (cont’d thru week of May 28st)

  • Brainstorming for new directions for UIO (cont’d thru week of May 28st)

    • Distill research into enumeration of user characteristics/traits (that affects use of products/systems) (i.e., alternative to user modeling)

      • E.g., (Floe) User states and contexts

    • Enumeration of features, functionality?

    • (Maybe a (high-level) scenario or two to articulate when/where/how UIO would be used?)

Week of May 28th

• Video player design work (Joanna has some mockups)

  • Increased UIO integration

  • As per the video player roadmap chart

Week of June 4th

• UIO design iteration (may start earlier)

• Which configurations?

  • Web: fat panel, skinny panel, full-page, in-line, drop-down, etc. (also, responsive)

  • Mobile: independent or responsive version of above?

  • Browser: extension

• Where does GPII/Cloud4All integration occur?