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Re-designing a pedometer to meet the needs and requirements of a senior person. The project was done by industrial designer and information technology students combined.
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70 plu
s PedometerAn user experience project with IT students. Discovering the process of designing a pedo-meter for a specific PERSONA(a 70+ years old senior prescri-bed a pedometer due to healthissues)
Benchmarkinga pedometer
TEST, performing tasks:Random people were selected to try to perform specific tasks.
1.Set the time2.Measure short distance3.Reset4.Time a walk5.Change from ml to km
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Grandma BettyTraditional Grandmother. Conservative, an avid gardener,loves her grandkids, technology illiterate, quilts, knitts, kind, warm, and makes a mean enchilada. She knows nothing about pedometers. In fact, she never had to use one, but recently her doctor told her that unless she starts walking 3000 steps a day her health will not hold up.
How to create a simple enough
pedometer that a 70+ person use it?
PersonaUser
Paper Prototyping #1Creating rough paper prototypes and interviewing people
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User Interface
MILES
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STEPS
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TIME WALKED
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PUSH MODE
PUSH MODE
PUSH RESET TO ZERO EVERYTHING
User tested on
Greg Kunz“The idea of minimal functions and only 2 buttons is great for me”
“The scree feedback is really simple and straight forward”“I’m not sure that I will need the ‘time walked’ function”“it looks and feels too big even though the screen has a good size”
“I really like that I can see how far I have walked”
“The screen facing up does not help me at all. I’m always wearing loose clothing that will cover the screen”“It feels too big and awkward in my hand. I need things big and easy to see but this is too big”
Joice Kunz
The screen is supposed to face upwardsto make it easier to check the data.
Apperently it does not work!!!
“as well as creating the form,some of the focus was channeled to the user
INTERFACE”
Paper Prototyping #2Creating rough paper prototypes and interviewing people
User tested on
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HOLDHOLD
start walking
push and hold to reset
Can you see theresemblance?
Joe Carter
Richard Wheeler
“ “I am not sure where I would put it. There is no clip, no no adhesive and or sort of attachment”
“The size is perfect. Not big, not small. The screen could be a little bigger though. Maybe the number could be bigger”
“I am scared to put this in my pocket and accidentaly hit the only one button and reset all my data. You should implement a way to lock it”
“I want a start and stop button so I can control when to start counting or when I want to stop it”
“I wish you would have put it something to clip onto my clothes. A clip would be just perfect. I could put it in my belt, my jeans, anything that a clip would grab onto”
“I have to say that the idea about a pocket watch does not work at all. My grandfather used a pocket watch. I am old but I don’t have 150 years of age. Old people like simple things but still with some level of modern feel. If I were you I would get away with that idea”
Yes! Roger that! (I am not making up what he said. He was thatblunt and straight forward)
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“Maybe I should make it look like something familiar
to seniors”
Paper Prototyping #3Creating rough paper prototypes and interviewing people
User Interface
Other users tested said:______O
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“After great feedback frompossible users, this onecame out”
steps 12:21pm
______Ototal 12:21pm
HOLDtotal 12:21pm
OOOOO.Omiles 12:21pm
push mode
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hold reset“make sure there is good color contrast. Old people tend to get things lost”
“good clip on the back. Make sure the clip can fit anywhere and it can hold well”
“I like the feature of ‘total’. I like to know how much I walked after a certain period of time. It makes me feel that I did something worththile for my health”
“The buttons need to have easy access and be fairly big. Old people’s hands are big”
“the numbers on the screen have to be big enough for a senior to read and it has to have good contrast with the background”.
“good shape and thickness around the edges”
Almost there. Just a few more things to fix
70 plu
s Pedometer
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MODE
RESET
12:21pm
Reasons:1.Orange: easy to see, hard to loose2.Shape: ergonomic, soft and easy to grip3.Screen sinze: displays big enough numbers4.Clip: universal clip.Clips anywhere
OOOOO.O3.05
How it worksMust be super simple because of the advanced age of its users
HOLDtotal 12:21pm
______Osteps 12:21pm
_____steps 12:21pm
______Ototal(s) 12:21pm
______Ototal(m) 12:21pm
OOOOO.Omiles 12:21pm
OOOOO.miles 12:21pm
push mode push mode
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push mode push reset
push mode
3 simple functions:Steps, Distance, Totals
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For major reset, hold down the reset button for 3 sec.For a sinble function reset,
hold down for 1 sec.
RESE
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122.Omiles12:21
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MODE
RESET
