Usability Test I Outline

Usability Test I

Charades: Gesture Creation Tools

Steps

1. Select a group of participants of no less than 5 people
2. Play a constrained games of Charades using the Wordlist (See Rules and Wordlist)

Path One (Exhaustive)

1. Play the game until each person needs to perform one action and the guess is correct.

Path II (Collaborative)

1. Sit down with group and discuss the action related to the wordlist
2. Discuss each word and determine the most popular action
3. Discuss alternative actions if some seem similar

Goals

1. A step of actions that match to the wordlist
2. A list of alternative actions if some are similar
1. Preferences for actions must be highlighted

Rules

1. Miming Player

1.1. One one-hand may be used.

1.1.1. Person may choose which hand.

1.1.2. Players must hold the Wiimote in that hand at all times

1.1.3. All players must hole the Wiimote in a similar fashion

1.2. Persons must remain seated

1.3. No communication allowed.

1.4. No sounds like

2. Winning Conditions

2.1. Answer must be said more than once, to get other possible descriptions for the actions.

2.2. Miming player must describe the action that they were performing

3. Other Rules

3.1. Each guess must be different from the one before it, to stop people saying “play, play, play” to get around Rule 2.1

Wordlist

Gesture Description

- Down

- Up

- Left

- Right

Action Description

- Video

- Television

- Music

- DVD

- Picture

- Movie

- Play list

- Volume

- Audio

- Snap-shot

- Zoom

Task Description

- Next

- Forward

- Previous

- Back

- Select

- Enter

- Play

- Pause

- Stop

- Repeat

- Channel Up/Next

- Channel Down/Previous

- Full-screen

- Seek

- Volume Up

- Volume Down

- Seek

- Zoom in

- Zoom out

Recording Methods

- If possible film the miming player,

o failing that record the audio from guessing player.

o Record Time and match top each miming player description

Other Factors

For context purposes,

- Show each person a set list of tasks and actions, or

- Display a media player for reference

- Brief the people as to the purpose to get them thinking in terms of media players

Path II Discussion

For each Action and Task Description;

1. Perform the mining players action

2. Action definition:

Ask;

2.1. What Task does this action relate to?

2.2. Is there a better word to describe the task?

2.3. Is the action similar to another Action’s task?

2.4. Is this the best action for the task?

2.5. How can it be improved?

2.6. Is their and inverse action?

3. Action description

Read the miming players description

3.1. Does this description match the action?

3.2. What is a better description of the action?

Record Goals

Task	Action Description	Action Video
Current Task List (from research)
Seek
Previous/Next
Play
Pause
Stop
Volume
Volume up/Down
Zoom
Zoom In/Out
Mute
Repeat
Full Screen
Snap-shot
New Tasks (from test)