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Tasks

Tasks. Discussion Section 3. Tasks Description. Describes user’s goal, in user’s terms Avoid terms from interface or computer. Unsure if term is from technology or user’s domain?  Pick a new term that is unambiguously from user’s domain. Tasks Description.

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  1. Tasks Discussion Section 3

  2. Tasks Description • Describes user’s goal, in user’s terms • Avoid terms from interface or computer. • Unsure if term is from technology or user’s domain? Pick a new term that is unambiguously from user’s domain

  3. Tasks Description • Describes user’s goal, in user’s terms • Avoid terms from interface or computer. • Unsure if term is from technology or user’s domain? Pick a new term that is unambiguously from user’s domain • Examples: • No: “User wants to send an email in Outlook.” • Yes: “Person wants to send a message to a friend in another state.”

  4. Tasks Description • User is the subject of sentence(s) describing the task • Computer / interface should not be the subject • If the computer / interface is the subject, you are describing design, not the user’s task • Example: • No: “The interface needs to enable access to files about…” • Yes: “Person needs to be able to view and modify documents about…”

  5. Tasks Description • The verb of the sentence describing the task is some form of “want” or “need.” • Examples: • No: “User schedules meetings.” • Yes: “Person needs to schedule meetings.”

  6. Tasks Description • A task is never a set of directions – it is a description of the outcome a user wants to produce • Example: • No: “User wants to send a message by creating a new email, typing the message, & sending it.” • Yes: “Person wants to send a message.”

  7. Task?

  8. Task: Person wants get milk from the cow • Didn’t mention machine • Didn’t say how: squeeze utters,use machine, etc.

  9. Task?

  10. Task? • Task: Person wants to get edible meat off the turkey • Didn’t mention the knife or how person got the meat off

  11. Tasks: Project Example • Project: teach elderly people how to keep in touch with family members using technology • What are some tasks to analyze for this project? • Note: you’ll use Contextual Inquiry to find the tasks for your project

  12. Tasks: Project Example • Project: teach elderly people how to keep in touch with family members using technology • Tasks: • Elderly people want to send messages to family members.

  13. Tasks: Project Example • Project: teach elderly people how to keep in touch with family members using technology • Tasks: • Elderly people want to send messages to family members. • Elderly want to get responses from family members.

  14. Tasks: Project Example • Project: teach elderly people how to keep in touch with family members using technology • Tasks: • Elderly people want to send messages to family members. • Elderly want to get responses from family members. • Elderly want to keep messages from family safe for long periods of time.

  15. Tasks: Project Example • Project: teach elderly people how to keep in touch with family members using technology • Tasks: • Elderly people want to send messages to family members. • Elderly want to get responses from family members. • Elderly want to keep messages from family safe for long periods of time. • Elderly want to get & look at pictures from family.

  16. Tasks: Project Example • How do I determine these tasks? • Contextual Inquiry (a fancy type of interview) • So I know these tasks – how does this help me build an interface? • Contextual Inquiry also helps you see how they currently • send messages • get responses • keep messages safe • get & look at pictures • Use this info to understand • how they think about the tasks • what might make sense to them on a UI (words, order of task steps, visuals, etc.)

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