Briefing:
Thank you for participating in our user interface test. Your participation will allow us to find problems with our interface and will help us to build a more user-friendly interface.
In the following mock scenario, you will be a diligent and studious 11th grade student studying a variant of pidgin English language called Singlish. Your Singlish I class uses the textbook “Singlish for Dummies”, and your class has studied up to and is currently studying chapter 7 of this book. Being the hard-worker that you are, you have discovered “Reading Practice”, a web application that helps members to practice reading in their language of study by providing a database of sentences in that language to read. The paper prototype you are about to be shown is a possible design for the web application’s user interface. You will be using it to practice Singlish.
In order to help us understand the user’s experience, we ask that you think aloud and ask about any uncertainties that you may have. Remember, this test is entirely voluntary, and you may stop at anytime.
Scenario Tasks
1. Create an account and log in.
2. Find a sentence that contains the word 'clock', read it, and find out its English translation.
3. Forbid a word from appearing in sentences.
4. Find the definition of "似乎".
5. Find more sentences that contain the word "clock'.
6. Return to a "General Review" of all words, and find a new sentence to read using all of the vocabulary from Chapter 5 of the Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course and nothing else.
7. Re-allow the word that you forbade in step 3 to appear in sentences again.
8. Contribute a sentence.