User 1:
Task 1:
- There are multiple ways to get to Bob (click on map or click on "My Friends").
Task 2:
- Too many button clicks (there is one even for confirmation that a new locashare has been created!) efficiency
- Just inform the notification, instead of asking them to click. -- efficiency issue
- Daily stats - when/what? -- not speaking user's language
- "What" sounds ambiguous -- use "History" instead
- Would like to know what locashares Joe has with Bob.
- View Bob's locashare accessible by me.
- Can have multiple locashares (naming will be helpful, but should not be mandatory).
- Name locashares as the placesnames (Cosi, Stata, Cambridge etc)
- Click on multiple friends for one location is intuitive.. but would like a "who" tab... should be already set with the list of friends that have been assigned to that locashare.
Task 3:
- The title "View me as Bob" is ambiguous
- To view my locashare, there are multiple paths -- my friends, my photo
- Edit relationship with Bob either way -- clicking on Bob or on yourself (photo)
- Saved locashares -- lists/tabs of locashares - visibility issue
- Bob (my relationship with Bob) .. same options should be given (list of locashares with Bob)
Suggestions:
- Option to "Duplicate" the locashares to create them for other people.
User 2:
Task 1:
- favorite restaurant doesn't make sense since there is no rating feedback given. Also, if Bob already went to PepperSky multiple times this week, he may not want to go there again.
- no preference info given.
- #times visited != fav. place
Task 2:
- "Whenever in Boston" in the task is ambiguous. If a friend in UCLA is coming to visit, their purpose of being in Boston may be different from someone in Cambridge. Requesting to share whenever you're in SP between 7 and 9pm makes more sense.
- there should be only 1 chart and user should be able to select the frequency of update
- difference between timeframe and the frequency of update
- if you want to share, but only see at specific times.
- time is not displayed consistently. Military time vs normal time.
- number of times in the chart is ambiguous. Say they're at a restaurant and they get a phone call. So they exit the restaurant, complete their phone call and come back. Does that constitute two visits? Displaying the amount of time on the chart may be more useful.
- may be more intuitive to give the user an option of specifying how long they would like information to be stored (in number of days).
- sharing exact location (everywhere) with family members seems more intuitive. something along the lines of "During this time Bob can see me wherever I am"
- can have similar settings like facebook. selecting multiple friends .. lack of external consistency
- history for the whole group, multiple -- singel entries or is there 1 single one for group formation.
- "My Friend" vs "New Friend". How do I add a new friend? learnability issue
- Show different times for different locations? Right now all the times in the "When" tab map to all the locations in the "Where" tab.
- Easier to "Choose time", and notify when that person can see where I am.
- Tell where you are right now vs track your locations.
- May be interested in viewing historical information out of personal curiosity.
Task 3:
- History of share -- hide weekly? if they hide daily, they can infer this information when they view the weekly chart.
- affordance is not there to view your info. seen by Bob (did not click on own photo).
show history (in "View me as Bob"):
Now ------|||---------- 7days ago (this will be filled in based on the permissions that Joe sets)
- would "poke around" to view the information Bob can see about Joe. However, better labels would be "Location", "Time", "History" (can be repetitive). speak the user's language
- show amount of time, not number of times. depends on the context though. Restaurants -- many times, Location Tracking -- amount of time
- have an icon (like in MSN) below the photo to show an affordance of clicking. Right now, clicking on the photo is not easy to learn.
- What if there are 5 restaurants in one building? How would LocaShare identify that building as?
- Need to have a mechanism to self-identify the location (like Facebook Check-In) for labeling the locations. If only GPS location is more important, maybe not need. If users don't identify themselves, coming up with labels will be very difficult.
Suggestions:
- Have a "global function". During this time, I don't want to be seen by anybody. This will override all other locashares.
- Time I want to be seen is like Facebook chat with location.
- Can you send a text message to that friend as well?
- Issue of privacy -- not at home/office can help someone break into my home and steal my stuff. I wouldn't use this app for social networking, but will use it for my family members for real-time location sharing.
User 3:
Task 1:
- The home page has a bubble-like shape that looks like Joe is "saying" something. However, the internal model is that the nearby friends are the ones that are doing the "saying" (mentioning their location as being close to Joe).
- Sharing preference seems to be for future plans (sharing in the future). Mode is visible at that time.
- Inconsistency in time display (military vs normal)
Task 2:
- Date -- is it this Sunday or the next? No option for setting dates.
- Did I already share Cosi and Stata with Bob? What do these markers mean?
- Call "What" as "Past Statistics". Quite ambiguous. not speaking the user's language
- Past History. Current location. Mention the time.
- Didn't notice the option to delete time (the circle with "minus" symbol).
- How do I add date to "When"?
- How to share with multiple friends at the same time?
- Location option. Will be helpful to show past statistics of locations I usually share with others (simplify the need to create new locations on the map).
- New LocaShare --- map in "What" tab should be blank.
- Specific group of people will be more helpful in the friends page. Divide by "Family" and "Friends". That way you can easily select all friends you want to be associated with that locashare.
- Associate "When" inside the markers on the map in "Where". When you click on a marker, a new window pops up and you can add it. Then you can add time and other details in that window. Should also be able to delete the markers (delete locashares).
- Existing locashare should not be editable. but should be shown when creating a new locashare so that you don't unnecessarily create a new one.
- If Joe wants to notify Bob that he will be in Boston on Friday night, Bob has to to go view Joe's profile to view whether Joe is in Boston. It may already be too late. Having some kind of alert (using color or notification) will be helpful whenever a new locashare is created.
Task 3:
- What does "View me as Bob" mean? Ambiguous not speaking the user's language
- 2 faces on ("View me as Bob") page. What are they for?
- Statistics is very ambiguous. Will be more useful to have a map that shows the route that Bob took in the past. Time is more important than frequency for the user. Can vary the size/shape of the markers on the map to indicate frequency (don't make the map messy)
- exact location all day versus decide a location in advance.