Janet N

VCR remote control

physical prototypes were very useful

Directions dont counteract learned behavoir - in fact if you train the user 

arbitrary symbols don't work

words still matter - lots of examples of words matter

Did you have good luck changing the words?

Can you talk a bit more about initial user testing and your decision to embed the display - did you worrry about small size text for readability


Personal Environmental Module: 

Numbers added complexity - huge differences on what is perceived as likely to be comfortable and they didn't usually choose correctly worked much better to just slide to comforatble. Humidiyt also just setting .. not percent 

word choice - radiant - white noise

natural mappings

what type of tasks did she use? noise masking...

If there are "reasonable" settings should that be indicated some how?


Sonya - 

Washer Dryer Interface - 

Problems of Computer Modeling - this is her focus

- Ages 50+ and technology

- Consistency and Friendly Design

Helped doing modeuling of physical design on a computer (I dont really understand what she means by this)

How were you thinking about the physical manifestation of this design? 

Did people understand the differnece between the diff categories? washer settings vs load settings... I would be confused about where to look for delicate


Susanna nagao - Microwave - 

how simple vs how much functionality (if you can't see it don't both to include it)

how precise

different age groups like different settings and func

motivation for future usage

importance of feedback

- People don't use food group setting...

- weight and power setting to diffiuclt

- what about different power microwaves - how would this relate to percentages?

- what is step cooking and what was the task..?


Abby Digital Camera 

Wording 

Location of Buttons

color for constraining feedback - gray

redundancy is good

in creating tasks be careful not to lead teh user... start with easy task

Did people know what protecting a photo was? 











