GR1 - Task analysis

User analysis

User classes:
card players
-ones that want to play really obscure games
-ones that want to switch between games
User groups:

• Haitao := college student, finds it difficult to switch between multiple interfaces for different card games online.
• John := old man in retirement home, doesn’t have anyone to play bridge with
• Tim := 6th grader, always bored, just discovered card games
• Mike := new graduate, looking to maintain relationship with friends from college
• Ashley := high school, bored, wants to play with friends, likes intellectually challenging games

Task analysis

Highest Level Goal: Play a card game
Subgoals:

• players have to decide on game ** decide teams?
  • decide rules (implicit)
• players play** deal cards
  • view own cards
  • move cards into play
• decide on winner and losers
• play again

1) dealing
Goal: distribute x cards to y players
Subtasks:

• split cards into y stacks of x cards

Notes:

• occurs at the beginning of every round
• initiates play

-manual vs. automatic
-possible ways to deal:
-how many cards per player?
-uniform distribution among players?
-drawing(as in tractor) vs. dealing
2) shuffling
Goal: randomize card order
Subtasks:

• perform shuffling action

Notes:

-click a stack and shuffle it automatically
3) communication
Goals: convey information between users
Subtasks:

• type message
• broadcast message to other users

Notes:

• should be concurrent with all other activities

-chatbox
-voice support
4) moving cards into stacks
-drag n drop
-ability to rotate stacks
-flip cards face up/face down
5) playing various games
-trick taking games (hearts/spades/bridge)
-solo games (freecell/solitare)
-doing magic tricks
-physical action based games (ERS, 52 card pickup)
-fast paced games (spoons, kemps)
-flexible games (mao, kings)

Domain analysis