Exercise Companion Usability Evaluation Design

Usability Goals and Senarios:

User Goal 1

• Task: User can sign in
• Scenario: Imagine you are a user who seeks to improve their physical fitness, but needs a motivation. You are told of this application which allows companionship with a virtual pet for whose health and experience mimics your own fitness. You've just installed the application and need to sign in (using a provided account)
• Success Condition: User signs in with provided account

User Goal 2

• Task: User can view step history, pet health, and pet experience
• Scenario: Your next task is to find the step history, pet health, and pet experience as quickly as possible. Note the steps for today and yesterday. Give a rough percentage approixmation of the pet's health and experience.
• Success Condition: User finds the step counter within a minute and denotes the correct step history. Along with a percentage approximation within 10% for pet health and experience.

User Goal 3

• Task: User can claim rewards and purchase any item
• Scenario: Assuming you've walked a few hundred steps, and wish to give your pet an accessory. Find a way to gain currency in the tasks menu and find the shop menu to purchase an item.
• Success Condition: User claims reward/ currency and is able to purchase a pet or accessory.

User Goal 4

• Task: User can customize pet
• Scenario: Once you have an accessory, you wish your pet to wear the accessory. Find a way to give your pet a hat.
• Success Condition: User successfully changes the pet's accessory.

User Goal 5

• Task: User can change pet
• Scenario: Assuming your pet has bit the dust or you've wish to have different companion. Find a way to switch to another pet.
• Success Condition: User swaps to a different pet.

Vocabulary

• Health: Refers to an imaginary health value associated with a pet. Ideally, it shall go down over time, and increase when the user walks (step counter). Higher the better.
• Experience: Refers to an imaginary experience value associated with a pet which denotes the total amount of walking the user has done with this pet, higher the better
• Step: Refers to the steps a user has taken for the step counter.
• Shop: Refers to the in-app store for which users may purchase more pets or accessories.
• Task: Refers to an optional activity for the user to accomplish. Upon accomplishment, they recieve a reward.

User Types

• Virtual Pet Owner: Referes to the end user for which the app targets. The user that owns the virtual pets.

Participation

• Signed concent forms are available to authorized personel.

Recuritment

• Users were recruited based on whoever wanted to take part. Typically close friends, and frequently seen associates will be asked to participicate.

Participants

• A
  • Has Real Pet:
  • Exercises Regularly:
  • Plays Games:
  • Place Where Usability Test was Taken:
• B
  • Has Real Pet:
  • Exercises Regularly:
  • Plays Games:
  • Place Where Usability Test was Taken:
• C
  • Has Real Pet:
  • Exercises Regularly:
  • Plays Games:
  • Place Where Usability Test was Taken:
• D
  • Has Real Pet:
  • Exercises Regularly:
  • Plays Games:
  • Place Where Usability Test was Taken:
• E
  • Has Real Pet:
  • Exercises Regularly:
  • Plays Games:
  • Place Where Usability Test was Taken:

Script

• We are evaluating the usability of a excercise companion application to determine any fatal usability issues.
• This will not take more than 25 minutes
• Feel free to express your unhinged feelings about this application
• Ask if you have any questions
• Only our team will see this consent form and you may termininate this session at anytime

Data

• A
  • Device Used: Your Device
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• B
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• C
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• D
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• E
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Results

• Usability Issue 1:
• Usability Issue 2:
• Usability Issue 3: