Task 2: Specify and Execute a User Participative Experiment

A. With regards to your solution, specify a hypothesis with a testable result; using one or more of your identified measures. This should be documented in section 2A of your report.

B. Using the web-based approach given in the lab tutorials or your own preferred platform, develop a high-fidelity interactive prototype for your solution which captures quantifiable interactive measurements, that can include measurements such as:

Timings, number of clicks, number of errors, task completion etc.

This should be described in section 2B of your report using screen shots and code snippets. A full copy of the development source code files will be submitted separately from the report. For full marks, a high-fidelity prototype of the original interaction design should be developed also and an experiment as described in 2C below ran for it. This will give you two sets of results to more formally analyse in section 2D below.

C. Create a consent form and have it authorised by A. Symons for a user participative experiment that explains what is being captured. Create a questionnaire to capture any personal information (age, gender etc.) as well as any require user satisfaction feedback. Run the experiments ensuring all captured data is recorded and held anonymously. Provide a full copy of your results and questionnaire data in section 2C of your report.

D. Analyse the results of your experiments and appropriately use graphs to discuss whether the results confirm your hypothesis or not. A spreadsheet application will prove useful in aiding you to statistically analyse your results and producing graphs. This should be detailed in section 2D of your report.