Second Round User Test

By Wei Gong
After our first round of user testing, we gained insights, refined our original concepts and came up with new ideas. We decided to project with zoomable images with the projector, and designed two activities with which the audience can play. With these ideas, we plan to do a second round user test. We will go on weekday this time to test the concepts with different audience. The testing plan is as follow: 


Goals

1. Understand the audience profile
   1. Will there be teenage audiences during weekdays in the living room? 
   2. Why they come here? What do they expect to see in the living room?
2. ​Understand the attractive elements
   1. What can attract the audience to the exhibit? (Signages, Projector, Blocks, etc.)
   2. Is there any difference between kids, teenagers, and adults?
3. Understand the audience’s behaviors
   1. ​​How will the audience interact with the exhibit and do the activity?
   2. Are they attracted to the activities? 
   3. Whether they need facilitation or not?
4. Assess the visitor engagement and the exhibit with the framework and gain insights on how we can improve our exhibit 

Materials

• Macroinvertebrate observation kit

1. specimen blocks
2. flashlight
3. magnifying glass.
4. other 

• Signages

1. Instruction for viewing Gigapan pictures with the projector
2. Prompts/questions
3. Instruction for doing the first activity(matching the blocks with the cards)​​​​
4. Instruction for doing the second activity(sorting the blocks by certain features)

• Computer & Projector
  • To show the Images corresponding with the blocks

Activity Preparation

• Matching activity: ​
  • Fix the cards on the cardboard and guide the audience to match the cube with the cards with signages

• ​Sifting activity:
  • Sort out the insects with no legs
  • Sort out the insects with more than 6 legs
  • Sort out the insects with 3 tails

Observation Template 

1. Age group
2. ​Gender
3. Attention: What attracts the audience to our exhibit
   1. Facilitators
   2. Signages
   3. projection
   4. blocks
   5. other
4. Behaviors
   1. Initiation Behaviors
   2. Transition Behaviors
   3. Breakthrough Behaviors
5. Activity: What guides him to interact with the kit and do the activity
   1. Facilitators
   2. Signages
   3. Projection
   4. By themselves
   5. other
6. Length of interaction: How long he/she spends with the exhibit kit
   1. 1 to 5 minutes
   2. 5 to 10 minutes
   3. 10-20 minutes
   4. more

Interview Question to Audiences:

1. Why do you come to Frick Park today? 
2. Why do you come to the living room? What do you want to do or see here?
3. Do you like to see the big projection? Why?
4. Do you like to do the activities? Why? 
5. What do you want to know about these insects?

Interview Question to staff in the living room:

1. What do you expect audiences to do here in the living room?
2. What do you want the audience to take away interacting with the macroinvertebrate kit in the living room? 

Next Step

• Things to buy

1. NFC reader
2. Card Board
3. Big Box to contain all the stuff