Not Enough Cooks in the Kitchen
My Role
User research, affinity diagram, concept generation, interface design, usability evaluation
Project Overview
Our system provides a video-conferencing mode, followed by an easy-to-use video recording, editing, and tagging interface that allows novices to build a library of previous clips or entire conversations that include helpful demonstrations and advice. This concept was created as part of a graduate-level course, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
My Tools & Techniques
- Participant observation: cooking a new dish with an experienced friend during a video-recorded session that was later analyzed by the group
- Video analysis of 2 cooking sessions with other participants. These videos gave us insight into how teaching and learning happens in the kitchen.
- Affinity diagram using data from video analyses to organize insights. We completed the wall diagram as a group, and then I created the documentation.
- Lots of sketching for concept generation, followed by group critique and iteration
- Design critique of wireframes and iterative sketching
- Acted as facilitator during usability evaluations with our paper prototype
- Created much of our presentation and final documentation
Collaborators
- Our final presentation:
- The slide show illustrates our problem space, research, prototype, usability evaluation, and post-evaluation tweaks. To see the presentation notes, which describe the prototype in more detail, you can view the slide show at Slideshare.
- Working Out the Concept:
- My post-affinity-diagram sketch of the system was the basis for our final concept design.