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iDivvy:Chore fairness in digital form.

The Cookie-Lickers

Jarid Bredmeier Brian Cullinan Carl Eberhard Leah Shanker

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Households have regular chores.

Nobody likes doing them.

Nobody likes to yell.

Problem.

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Fairness.

Enter iDivvy.

You’ve told us what causes your problems...

We’ve listened and found your solution.

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• Quick

• Convenient

• Persistent

Project Goals

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7 Factors of Testing Regime Design

Stage of Project

Novelty of Design

Number of Users

Criticality of UI

Financial Budget

Time available

Skill of Design Team

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In-depth laboratoryUsability Testing:Assessment and Acceptance Tests

Usability and Visual Expert Reviews of iDivvy Prototype

Paper Mock-ups and iDivvy Digital Prototyping

Preliminary Survey,Informal Interviews, Focus Groups andFollow-up Surveys

Usability Testing Regime

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Our main competitor is face-to-face communication.

Pros Cons

Quick Not enduring

Context-awareNot (necessarily)

recurring reminder

Task completion time needs to reflect average human “talking” speed.

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Pen & Paper

Pros Cons

Convenient No receipt feedback

Enduring Unorganized

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Expert Review Insight

• Cognitive Walkthrough

• Golden Rules Analysis

• Visual Design Principles

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Usability Assessment

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User Exercise Excerpts

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Even though listed chores were not shaped like buttons,Most users attempted to touch chores for more info.

Link Chore from Chore List Panel

Assessment indicated users did not first look at the bottomnavigation panel even though it was physically closer to them.

Invisible Lower Navigation Bar

Indication of confusion: Gender Icons?

Unintended mismatch of mental model

User Icon Selection

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Acceptance TestingFunction Experience Needed Time to Complete

Add User The user must have a basic understanding of a keyboard

layout in order to use the onscreen keyboard to type in any

optional fields. They can select an avatar or picture to

represent the user being added; this is the only requirement

of this functionality.

Less than 30 seconds. The

user was able to select an

avatar.

Select User When adding a Task the user is require to select a person to

designate the task to. This required them to make a

selection from the list of users created using the Add User

function.

Less than 3 seconds

depending on their picture

association skills.

Remove

User

The user must go in to “Remove User” mode and make a

selection for which user to remove.

Less than 5 seconds based

on consideration.

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Experience Needed Time to Complete

Add

Chore

User must be able to pick a picture

to represent the chore. Optional

chore name can be added.

Less than 1 minute.

Select

Chore

The user must be able to select a

chore to assign to a person.

Less than 20 seconds.

Remove

Chore

The user must put the chore list

into “Remove Chore” mode and

then click the chore to remove.

Less than 10 seconds.

Performance Specification

Metric Data

PASSED View Task 100% < 30 secondsPASSED Create Task 100% < 20 seconds

PASSEDShow User Tasks

100% < 30 seconds

PASSED Add New User 100% < 20 seconds

PASSEDSelect User

100% < 10 seconds

PASSED Remove User 100% < 10 secondsPASSED Create a Chore 100% < 20 secondsPASSED Schedule a Chore 100% < 10 secondsPASSED Un-schedule a Chore 100% < 10 seconds

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Trimming the Fat

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Problems

• Page Interconnectivity

• Button Mislabeling

• Controls too small

• Visual patterns at top

• Unintended Affordances

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The Cookie-Lickers