First step of my Interaction research project is a development of online Picture Quest version which is already available at http://experiment.fifix.net, where I ask people to share stories about their experience with playing games. Their stories shall be used as inspiration for concept of the board game or electronic exertion game that we are making for User Experience Design course.
I have made a prototype of online tool, tested for bugs, design issues and meaning on people to see if it works properly, and what kind of possible answers I could get. Initial task for participants was to tell what “solar energy and smartphones” mean to them, as I was planning to design an application for smartphones in field of solar energy. I wanted to support people in telling stories by providing them with opportunity to drag pictures in a comment, that, as I beleived, would provoke thoughts.
After testing session, it appeared that people have difficulties in connecting “solar energy” and “smartphone” concepts. Besides, I was not able to work on smartphone application project any more. I had to change a task to something simpler, that everybody can understand and related to. Besides, I wanted to support existing projects where I am involved in. That’s why I decided to ask people about their experience with playing any kind of games, as it is something that many people can related to (at least in my humble opinion), and from which outcomes would be relevant for my two game projects I am involved in.
What will be results, we shall see after launching experiment in public.
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