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Rapidly Exploring Application
Design through Speed Dating
Yang Huang
Northeastern University/2014
huang.yang1@husky.neu.edu
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What to learn
• What is, Why is,
• And How to “Speed Dating”?
• Keys:
– User’s Needs
– Contextualized Factors
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User Centered Design (UCD)
• UCD v.s. Ubiquitous Computing
– Immature
– High Cost
• Some UCD Methods sucks
–Ideation -> iteration
–To explore diversity
–To reinterpret opportunity areas
–*Contextualized factors may not be
discovered
–…
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What About Speed Dating?
• Quickly find out your Mr./Mrs. Right
– Save money, save time
– Find out who’s more likely to be the right one
– Reflect again on your criterion
– Any other opportunities?
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How to Use Speed Dating
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How to Use Speed Dating
• Need Validation
– Expected ≠ Perceived
– Storyboards + Scenarios + Questions =
– Perceived Needs + New Opportunities
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How to Use Speed Dating
• Need Validation
– Safety Net
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How to Use Speed Dating
• User Enactment
– By Speed Dating Matrix
– Experience the preset scenarios
– Analyze the impact of risk factors
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How to Use Speed Dating
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Insight
• Need Validation and Kids' Activities
– Bound to parenting
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Insight
• User Enactments and Contextual Factors
in Parenting
– Emotional Compliments and Supports
– Different supporting activities in similar action:
• Soccer Equipment
• School Lunch
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Insight
• User Enactments and Contextual Factors
in Communication
– External Communication
– Internal Coordination
– Avoid Subtle Risks
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Evaluation
• Need Validation (Good!)
– To get what users actual do, rather what they
think and say
– For example, compared to questionnaires
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Evaluation
• User Enactment (Good!)
– Subtle Nuance in Contextual Factors
– Avoid Potential Risks
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Evaluation
• Comparison (Good!)
– Gain Multiple Insight
• Iteration
– A Kind of Comparison
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Evaluation
• User Centered Design (Not Good Enough)
– Technology may change user’s behavior
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Evaluation
• Story board (Not Good Enough)
– An Update of Tradition Story board
– Need Design Team’s Creativity
– Helpful on the stuff people have never seen
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Extension
• Technology change behavior
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Iris Home Security System
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9whiq85UxnQ
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Summary
• User Needs
– Need Validation
• Contextualized Factors
– User Enactment
• Comparison
– Ideation -> Iteration
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Discussion questions
• How to balance “Technology changes
human behavior” and “User Centered
Design” in user study?
• How do you think of the Internet of Things?
Will it dominate our life?
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