HorizonThe direction to the end of your to-do list

Presenter: Wing LamGroup members: Danudet Boonyakamol, Enrique Dominguez, James Okada

Overview• Overall problem & solution• Contextual inquiry description & results• Task analysis results• 3 representative tasks• Early design sketches• Summary

Overall problem & solution

• increasing amount of distractions• Help manage distractions -> more productivity

Contextual inquiry participants

• Very Focused• Interviewed at CLUE• Stranger in CLUE• Results:

• long work hours • listens to music • rewards himself by

going on Reddit• Silences phone

• Easily distractible • Interviewed in a café

where she studies with friends

• Stranger in café • Results:

• short study time• focuses through absence of

technology• distracted when stuck • motivated by fear.

Contextual inquiry participants

• Productive• Interviewed in library• Recruited as friend• Results:

• motivated by deadlines• sets some form of reward

• Unproductive• Interviewed in his room• Recruited as friend• Results:

• short bursts of productivity• No short-term goals • Encourages himself to be

distracted while working

Contextual inquiry description• Similarities:

• Breaks• reduces stress • level of efficiency declines drastically

• Dependence on motivation• blocking anything distracting; negative effects

• Differences: • different ways of combating distraction

• not one unique way to be productivity.

Task Analysis Questions• Who will use Horizon?

• Mainly concentrated on people who have trouble staying productive.• People with high productivity will have extra incentive

• Existing/Desired tasks• Setting goals, having an incentive to be productive• Organizing tasks

Task Analysis Questions• How are tasks learned?

• From experience and trial and error • Figure out which technique help them be productive

• What other tools customers have?• Completely block out things deemed distracting• Simple do-to list

Task Analysis Questions

• What are the time constraints on the tasks?• Indirect time constraint: time getting organized• Time required/left to complete goals

• What happen when things go wrong?• Goals are not achieved on time and not as efficient.• Customer does not achieve expected results, and will learn from

mistakes

Simple task:Keeping track of tasks needed to be completed• Frequency: high • Importance: medium • Current problems:

• Managing tasks is time consuming• Managing tasks can be overwhelming

• Provides task management support• Successful task management leads to greater productivity

(Shown in CI)

Moderate task:Choosing rewards based on the users’ interests• Frequency: medium, Importance: medium • Provide direct and indirect rewards:

• Short-term VS and long-term rewards

• Intrinsic (joy of being productive) and Extrinsic (good grade) rewards

• Promote long-term change in behavior

Complex task:Studying with controlled distractions• Frequency: high, Importance: high• Distraction at the “right” time• Lower overall distraction• Leads to more free time and increases success rate

Design Sketches

Design Sketches

Design Sketches

Summary• Hard to be productive and easily distracted• Some customers optimize productivity through personalized

techniques while others lack the skills.• Horizon will increase productivity of customers and optimize

their working habits to fit their style.