HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION


HCI 101: Week 3: Session 1 

Stage 1: Need assessment


Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudhe

Class project




SEA

Somaiya - E - Assist


2 Systems
e-Kiosk and Mobile app

4 Teams
2 each from seniors and juniors

 RECAP  


Team 1 & 2

e-Kiosk design


TEAM 3 & 4

Mobile app design



Process of interaction design


1. Identifying needs and establishing requirements
2. Developing alternative designs that meet those requirements.
3. Building interactive versions of the designs so that they can be communicated and assessed.
4. Evaluating what is being built throughout the process

Understanding problem space



Knowing the details of the problems they have

Asking the users if the product will address their problems



Need Assessment: Strategy 1




1. Select three individuals who are new to the campus


Where can you spot them?

Need Assessment: Strategy 1

  1. Make pairs from your team
  2. Spot a visitor
  3. Track the visitor
  4. One person meets the individual who was asked by the visitor for help
  5. Notes down the interaction
  6. Other member tracks visitor further

Need assessment: Strategy 1


2. Your goal is to observe till the point they get to their respective destination

How can you track them?

Need Assessment: Strategy 1


  1. Come back and consolidate the information
  2. Enter it in to a document
  3. Submit the activity report

Needs assessment: sample



http://www.tremolina.net/HCI/needs.html

Need Assessment: Strategy 2


  1. A member from each group to interview ONE security guard at different gate


Ask:

What are the common questions of the visitors?

Need Assessment: Strategy 2


  1. Interview ONE security guard and ask him the common questions asked by the visitors.

Need Assessment: Strategy 2


  1. Come back and consolidate the information
  2. Enter it in to a document
  3. Submit the activity report

Need Assessment: Strategy 3

One member from each group: 

Ask ANY random campus student a location which he/she may not be aware of.

For example: Ask Aurovindo/Chemical Engineering student if he/she can go to the RED Auditorium at SIMSR

Need Assessment: Strategy 2


  1. Come back and consolidate the information
  2. Enter it in to a document

  1. Submit the activity report


HCI_Somaiya_W3_S1

By Sameer Sahasrabudhe