KaJaMi - GR3 - Paper Prototype

Prototype Photos

	v1.0 of user-friendly implementation The user has drag/dropped two files from the desktop onto the interface and the files have begun uploading to the system.
	v1.0 of user-friendly implementation The user has clicked on one of the uploading albums and sees the detailed album view with cover-art. Each field on this page is editable (the field highlights on a mouse hover and turns into a text-box on click).
	v1.0 of high-efficiency implementation The main screen that shows up on loading. The "+" button at the bottom manually brings up the list of uploading albums and previously uploaded.
	v1.0 of high-efficiency implementation An album (starmarker.zip) has completed uploading and is ready to be approved (and filed) into the playback system.
	v1.0 of reporting interface (both aforementioned v1.0 implementations use the same reporting interface) Currently with no filtering selected, all albums are being shown.
	One of the user testing sessions at the WMBR studio.
	Some of the interface widgets and task cards used.
	v2.0 of our merged implementation Notice the pause button by each upload progress bar, the clear approve/delete buttons for the album (and the removal of the trash bin icon previously in the top right corner), and the re-wording on the upper left tabs for clarity. Changes not seen include a screen hover on dragging files over the interface (an entire gray-out screen blankets the screen and says "upload"), a highlight on hovering over any editable fields (including the tracks, which then allow editing of artists on individual tracks), and other minor changes. Other forthcoming changes include being able to delete single tracks (also using a hover over track affordance) and a clear visual cue that uploading albums can be clicked on to see specific album information.
	A view of the testing session on Monday March 18th.
	v2.0 of reporting interface Notice the Piazza-like tagging for genre filtering (allowing flexible genre additions as well as multi-selection filtering), release date range filter, and additional playback count columns (for easy sorting between commonly used date ranges). Note that there were several transparencies made for both versions of the reporting interface to reflect changes in filtering and when clicking on one of the playback count headers (which sorts by play count in descending order).

Briefing

KaJaMi Participant Briefing

Thank you for taking the time to help us test the prototype of our system.

You will be acting as the “user”, our goal is not to test you, but to test our system and find flaws or inconsistencies that will improve the final implementation.

One person from our group will act as a “computer” who will control the experiment and provide tasks that we would like you to perform using the interface.

The other group members will act as “observers”, and will be taking notes on the experiment.

We will be asking you to perform tasks that relate to your current music director duties, but using our interface instead of what you are normally used to. At a high level these tasks will include importing digital music, previewing music and getting CMJ reporting data. We ask that you do not ask interface related questions during the test itself (as this will better help us find faults in our interface) but we can answer anything after the test is complete.

Thanks and have fun!

Scenario Tasks

Scenario	Task
Imagine you are a music director, Lana, and you wish to upload some albums to the digital library via the KaJaM! interface	Open KaJaM! and log into the system
You have downloaded 2 albums onto your computer: Starmarker.zip and KaJaM.zip and wish to import them to the library	Import Starmarker.zip and KaJaM.zip into the digital library
While KaJaM.zip is importing, you wish to preview one of the tracks	Preview (play) a track in the KaJaM album
The track from the KaJaM album sounds familiar, and you quickly realize you have already imported the album and don't need it again	Delete the currently importing KaJaM album
The Starmarker.zip file finishes importing, and you wish to make sure all the track details are correct	Inspect track details*
You find incorrect and incomplete track details you want to fix	Edit track details to reflect the correct information**
You wish to approve the album to officially file it in the digital library	Approve the album
Before you leave, you wish to complete College Media Journal reporting for the month	Take a look at the reporting data in the digital library
You notice the reporting data is displaying _the Blue Dot _genre, but you want to look at "Electronica/RPM"	Filter the reporting data to show only "Electronica/RPM"
Now all reporting data is on "Electronica/RPM" only, but it is not sorted by play count in the last month	Sort the reporting data by play count in the last month, in descending order
Everything looks good, but you still want to make adjustments to the reports based on physical CD play count before submitting them	Export the reporting data to Excel file format for further editing
Now that you are all done, you wish to go home	Done!

*The album contains tracks with pre-tagged information, but some are incorrect or incomplete:

Track #	Track Name	Artist	Album	Label
1	While I'm Dead	Starmarker	Unknown	Polyvinyl
2	Sand Beauty	Starmarker	Unknown	Polyvinyl
3	Silvre Lining	Starmarker	Unknown	Polyvinyl

**The facilitator assumes Lana Googles the album information, so facilitator provides all the correct information to the user on a separate sheet of paper:

Track #	Track Name	Artist	Album	Label	Release Date	Genre
1	While I'm Dead	Starmarker	Killer Kilometer	Polyvinyl	20/02/2013	Electronica/RPM
2	Sand Beauty	Starmarker	Killer Kilometer	Polyvinyl	20/02/2013	Electronica/RPM
3	Silver Lining	Starmarker	Killer Kilometer	Polyvinyl	20/02/2013	Electronica/RPM

Observations

User	Import Files into the Library	Preview Song Tracks	Delete Importing Album	Inspect Album/Track Details	Edit Album/Track Details	Approve Album
1	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:
2	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:	Learnability Issues: Efficiency Issues: Safety Issues:

Prototype Iteration

Design	First Iteration	Second Iteration

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