2014 Spring UX Prototyping Midterm presentation

1. MEET ME HALFWAY
Kyung Jin Hong

2. Concept Statement

3. Meet me halfway
• Users
• People who have meetings with others but cannot
decide where to meet
• Main Function
• Recommends places that are fair for every member of
the meeting

4. • Conclude negotiations
• Analyze groups’ information
• Each member’s loacation(GPS)
• Purpose of the meeting
• Recommend places(Maximum 3)
• Give information of surroundings
• landmarks, popular sites
• Helps to search for wanted facilities
 Choose a Place to meet
Functions

5. • Route Guidance
• Analyze each member’s information
• Means of transportation
• Shortest time(distance) or Least transfer
• Recommend routes
• Give precise direction of the route
• from current location to the destination
Choose a Route
• each member’s route demands similar amount of time
Functions

6. Persona

9. Cultural Probes

10. Participants recruiting plan
• 6 to 8 people
• Of different age, gender, residence, field and personality
• How
• Search around people near me
• Ask other people when more people are needed

11. Probing Package design
• Subway line map + Stickers
• Camera + Facebook
• Bottle with little papers
• USB
• with song ‘Meet me halfway’ by Black Eyed Peas

12. Subway line map + Stickers
• Mark specific places on the map with stickers
• Location of you, your friends and people you meet often
• The first place you met your friends
• Places you and your friends usually gather
• Places with special memory
• Places you usually meet people
• Places you prefer to meet people

13. Camera + SNS
• Take pictures with your smartphone camera and
upload it on SNS, with brief comments
• Friends and people you meet often
• Where you met your friends
• Places with special memory
• Places you usually meet people
• Places you prefer to meet people
• Then send a your SNS address to me

14. Message in bottle
• Messages with questions inside a bottle
• Where do you usually meet people? Why?
• Where do you prefer to meet people? Why?
• Who do you usually meet? Why?
• Who do you like to meet? Why?
• What do you consider when choosing places to meet?
• Do you argue with people while planning meetings? Why?

15. USB
• ‘Meet me Halfway’ by Black Eyed Peas
• Listen to the music while going through the probe
• Save notes of any kind of comment inside

16. Scenario
• Each participants receive a package
• Go home and open the package
• Follow the instructions
• Open the music file in the USB and turn on the music
• Open the map and start checking locations
• Do what ever you planned, when you have a meeting take a camera(or
mobile-phone), take pictures (members, place etc), and up load on SNS
with brief explanation
• Open the bottle, unroll the paper and check the questions, then write
opinions.
• Write comments and save it in the USB
• Send the package back to me

17. Context mapping

18. Sketch

19. Sketch

20. Preparation
• Participants
• Age
• 10’s ~ 50’s
• Gender
• Job
• Diverse areas
• Residence
• Personality
• External or Internal
• Room setting
• Board
• Nametag
• Note & pen
• Drinks & snacks
• Things for the session
• Subway map
• Pocket Photo

21. Sensitization
• Recall Memories
• Note
• Think about recent meetings and scribble on note
• Members, location, purpose, transportation etc
• Photographs
• Go through phone gallery and SNS

22. Session
• Map
• Mark location with
stickers on subway map
• Location of meetings
• Residence of members
• Locations one prefers
• Photographs
• Find photos of meetings
• With members
• Meeting places
• Print the photos
• With pocket photo
• Write about the photos
• With whom
• Where
• Why

23. • Discussion
• Talk about the location and photos
• Freely discuss about given questions
• How do you choose the locations?
• How do you think about the process?
• How do you usually get to the location?
Session

24. Action Time Checklist
Introduction 05 min Tell the participants about session’s goal and feel free to talk
Ice-breaking 20 min
Self-introduction (name, job, anything to say)
Short game (ex. Bingo – 3x3, about places I went recently)
Warm up 25 min
Think of recent meetings (through photographs)
Talk a about on of the meetings
Part 1 05 min Mark locations on the map
Part 2 10 min Print photographs and add any information to it
Part 3 30 min
Discussion
- Talk about the locations & photographs
- Talk about the given questions
Wrap up 05 min Opinions about the session
Session

25. Thank you