ComputerHuman Interaction Spring 2012 Happy Life An Older

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Happy. Life An Older Adult Event Organizing Software Xueming Wu Computer Science/2012 rynewu@gmail. com Yiyun Ma Computer Science/2012 yiyunma 2010@gmail. com Chen Chu College of engineering/2012 chu. che@husky. neu. edu Northeastern University 1

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Problem • Older adults cannot find an effective way to start an activity. • They must go to a senior center and ask them to start an activity. Northeastern University 2

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Why they want to do that? • • • After retirement, older adults : Feel lost Feel depressed Feel boring Have plenty of time Northeastern University 3

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Motivation • • After visiting senior centers: Why older adults go to senior centers? What they are doing in senior centers? What activities are provided to them? Northeastern University 4

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Surprises • Some of them are really good at using computers. • Many older adults would like to pay some money to attend activities or go to senior center. Northeastern University 5

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 The best today • Meetup (www. meetup. com) Northeastern University 6

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 The best today • • Users cannot invite friends to join them. A lot of information on the screen. Font size is small Too many functions and filters. Northeastern University 7

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Innovation - Happy. Life • Older adults can only see what they want. • Less information = Bigger font size • Easy to find interesting events Northeastern University 8

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 What helped us. • Visits to the senior center’s computer room. • Paper prototyping. Northeastern University 9

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Tasks • Attend an event which the user think interesting. • Create an event and invite some friends to join them. Northeastern University 10

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 (Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface. . . Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier. Northeastern University 11

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 (Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface. . . Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier. Northeastern University 12

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 (Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface. . . Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier. Northeastern University 13

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 (Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface. . . Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier. Northeastern University 14

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 A UI challenge • Whether or not to ask the user to log in. • Whether a function is necessary or not. • How to make the interface easier to use. Northeastern University 15

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Removed “Join us” • <-Previous version Later version -> Northeastern University 16

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Removed “poll” function • • <-Previous version Later version -> Northeastern University 17

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Use category instead of search • Later version -> Northeastern University <-Previous version 18

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Modified “Invite friend” function 12 34 Northeastern University 19

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Tricky programming problem • • • CMonth. Calendarctrl Time Line Widget CList. CTrl Different Variable Types under MFC Communication between Dialogs Northeastern University 20

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 The future • Alert function • Older adults don’t need to remember too much information Northeastern University 21

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Future process • More testing • - Make the interface easier to use. • - Cover older adults’ need as more as possible. Northeastern University 22

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Happy Life • Collect events from different senior centers • Help older adults to create their own events • Help older adults from different places get together and do something they like. Northeastern University 23

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 Demo Northeastern University 24

Computer/Human Interaction Spring 2012 • Q&A Northeastern University 25