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.