Human computer interaction

IN2007 Human Computer Interaction 2015/16 - Coursework 2 Submission deadline: 13 December 2015, 5pm, via Moodle You are now asked by the client (the Muggle Quidditch UK league) to evaluate the design you created in coursework 1. For this coursework, you will need to plan and conduct an evaluation with at least 5 users in order to discover usability problems with your design. You will record the screen and audio of each evaluation session. You will need to describe in detail how you carried out the evaluation in a report. You will present the findings of your evaluation, including an assessment of the severity of the problems you found and recommendations on how to improve your design. Your coursework submission must consist of the following two items: • A client-facing report, which should include: o A detailed description of the user test (3 pages max). This should describe in detail how you set up and conducted the evaluation (e.g. who your participants were and how you recruited them, the tasks they were given, the session set-up, etc.). Please provide references to any additional items you have used or created during the evaluation in the report; these additional items need to be included in the appendix. o A summary of the main findings of the evaluation, including an assessment of the severity of the problems found and recommendations for improving your design aimed at addressing the problems you found. (2 pages max) o The appendix to your report must include any items you created or used during the evaluation (no page limit) e.g. recruitment notices, screener, consent forms, log sheets, feedback questionnaires, etc. You do not need to include the whole of your prototype but you should provide an example e.g. the Home page. You must also include signed consent forms for all your participants in the appendix. • A "highlights video" showing snippets from your video/audio recordings that give concrete examples of the most severe usability problems which you have documented in the report (one file, 2.5 minutes max, 2GB max file size). Please keep all recordings of the user testing sessions safe, as they might be required as evidence that you carried out the evaluation. You must include signed informed consent forms for all participants and a highlights video in your submission. If you do not and it looks like you invented data, your coursework will receive 0 marks and you will be referred to the academic misconduct panel. You are encouraged to produce a prototype which is suitable for evaluation based on the wireframes in coursework 1, however you do not need to correct any mistakes in the design. For this coursework, you will be marked on the quality of your evaluation instead of the quality of your design. You will not receive any marks for the quality of your prototype, only for how you evaluated it. If you did not submit coursework 1, please speak to the module leader as soon as possible. Although the two courseworks are inter-related (you will be evaluating the system you designed in the previous coursework), they will be marked independently. It is possible for students to get low marks in the previous coursework, but bring their overall coursework marks up by conducting a thorough and competent evaluation of their design. Every design can be improved through careful evaluation, so you will not lose marks if your evaluation highlights important usability problems to address. Marking Scheme • Quality of evaluation: appropriateness of evaluation process; detail of description, including how evaluation was set up and what items were produced, how data was gathered and how this was analysed. (50 marks) • Quality of findings: depth of description and explanation of usability problems found, assessment of severity, recommendations for improvements to design. (30 marks) • Quality of highlights video: demonstration of usability problems encountered. (15 marks) • Quality of your report: neatness, structure, coherent expression, spelling and grammar. (5 marks) Practicalities • Your main report and appendix must be submitted in one file via the Moodle Turnitin submission area. No zipped files are allowed, please use Word or PDF. Please note that there is a 20MB file limit and it is your responsibility to figure out how to fit into the file size limit. Please also note that you should leave good time for uploading the files before the submission deadline. Late coursework will not be marked. • The highlights video must be submitted in one file via a separate submission area in one file. There is a 2GB file limit. Please stick to common video formats such as MP4, mov, wmv or avi. • You can improve your wireframes from the previous coursework if you want to and are encouraged to turn your wireframes into a prototype to use in your evaluation. You will not receive any marks for your prototype though - only for your report of how you evaluated it. • This assignment counts for 50% of the overall module marks. Academic misconduct This is an individual assessment. Plagiarism of any kind (e.g. from books, journals, the web or other students) will be referred for academic misconduct. You will also be referred for academic misconduct if you invent user data or fail to get user consent.