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Requirements Gathering & Task Analysis – Part 3 of 5

Requirements Gathering & Task Analysis – Part 3 of 5. Why, What and How – User Characteristics and Environment.

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Requirements Gathering & Task Analysis – Part 3 of 5

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  1. Requirements Gathering & Task Analysis – Part 3 of 5 Why, What and How – User Characteristics and Environment This material has been developed by Georgia Tech HCI faculty, and continues to evolve. Contributors include Gregory Abowd, Jim Foley, Diane Gromala, Elizabeth Mynatt, Jeff Pierce, Colin Potts, Chris Shaw, John Stasko, and Bruce Walker. Comments directed to foley@cc.gatech.edu are encouraged. Permission is granted to use with acknowledgement for non-profit purposes. Last revision: January 2004.

  2. User Characteristics • Attitude, morale, willingness to change, motivation, reading level, typing skill, education, frequency of use, training, color-blindness, handedness, gender,… • Novice, intermediate, expert • System experience, task experience, computer literacy • Cultural factors • Uses of icons, colors, words, metaphors - more later

  3. User Low motivation, discretionary use Low motivation, mandatory use High motivation, due to fear High motivation, due to interest Design goal Ease of learning Control, power Ease of learning, robustness, control Power, ease of use User Motivation

  4. Experience TaskComputer low low high high low high high low Design goals Many syntactic and semantic prompts Efficient commands, concise syntax Semantic help facilities Lots of syntactic prompting Implications of Experience

  5. Job & Task Implications • Frequency of use • High - Ease of use • Low - Ease of learning & remembering • Task implications • High - Ease of use • Low - Ease of learning • System use • Mandatory - Ease of use • Discretionary - Ease of learning

  6. Job Characteristics • Mission critical • Life and safety • High stress environment • High mental workload • Low mental workload • Implications of these types of jobs?

  7. Environment • Lighting levels / directions • Noise level • Temperature • Standing / sitting • Implications of these types of environments?

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