The start: what interests me?

I love playing with stuff!

Matthew Pointon

Initial research interest

• Inconsistencies in usability– Evaluation methods– Testing methods– Data collection methods– Data Analysis

Alignment of focusIts smart and its on the move!

Cogs started to turn

I’m so used to traditional user testing and lab testing environments

How do we test with Smartdevices?

Environmental setting: Mobile IT Use

Kristoffersen, S. and F. Ljungberg. (1999) Mobile Use of IT, In the Proceedings of IRIS22, Finland.

Evaluation of

UEM & HCI

Methods

Tasks interrupted and not interrupted

Fragmented Attention

Lab Vs Field

Model of modality

Top papers are based around

Information Models

The Epiphany

Mobile testing complexity

– To establish realistic user studies that capture the richness of the use-context

– To create activities in the right physical surroundings can be difficult to recreate realistically

– To evaluate and compare the most popular methods within a field setting

The setting

Based on a module create a suitable setting for mobile testing.

Prof “docness” to the doctorate

Module Vs Prof Doc

Module consists of;• Information

models• Product build &

Pilot – Lab testing

• Test– Field testing

• Data analysis– Morae

• Evaluate• Report

Prof Doc utilises• Field environment• Complex

configurations• Students findings

• New agile methods in mobile testing

Scenario development

• The new model is the primary tools that;– Designs stories to aid data capture – Reflects mobile research frameworks – Implements data capture models

• Grounder theory has;– Identified top 5 mobile frameworks (citation

popularity) – Identified the ways in which a user could be

moving and interacting while using a mobile.

Configuration

Challenges:Unstructured and structured configurations

Student data capture

• Diary, observations & interview• Morae

• Using data to build a new framework/method for agile mobile testing