18_9_2013_SMF_Lataam.. - Media Concepts Research Group
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18_9_2013_SMF_Lataam.. - Media Concepts Research Group
SUBTITLE TEXT Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 18.9.2013 Next Media WP1 Seminar Social media as an UCD tool Case: Facebook and SMF Lataamo source New content package concepts 1.1.1.1 Creating new media concepts for tablets Visuality and usability 1.1.1.2 Visuality and usability in tablets WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 1 Product overview AKU ANKAN LATAAMO ‣ Complete archive of Finnish Donald Duck magazines • 100 000+ pages and 14 000+ stories digitized • Available for monthly fee • Launched in August ‣ Multifaceted survey • Heuristic evaluation with tablet heuristics, conducted April 2013 • Co-creation with social media, June 2013 • Web poll, July 2013 WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 2 Crowdsourcing UCD DEFINITION ‣ Wired’s Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing • “Simply defined, crowdsourcing represents the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call.” • The Rise of Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, WIRED, 2006 ‣ We used online research community, to be specific • “An online research community is a group of people who have been provided with an online environment in which to interact with each other (and the client and researcher) about topics related to a research interest.” • Online research communities – a user guide, Pete Comley, International Journal of Market Research (2008) WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 5 Research PROJECT OUTLINES ‣ SMF invited 250 persons to a closed FB group • Invitations were made through an open call in akuankka.fi • At the end, the group had 182 users, 12 developers, and us ‣ During three weeks, 17.6. – 5.7. • Questions were asked twice a day in the form of a poll and comments • Topics of the questions came from • SMF • Heuristic evaluation by Aalto ARTS conducted in May • Previous Next Media research (Next Media Generic Research: Media Experience) ‣ Online survey was conducted after the three-week period WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 6 Research overview EXAMPLE WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 7 Research overview EXAMPLE WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 7 Research overview DIFFERENCES BETWEEN USERS ‣ Of the 180 users • 50 users commented on the polls (and 5 developers, including us) • Analyzed comments: 199 • 35 developers’ • 164 users’ • 10 most active users produced half (81) of the comments • 140 users didn’t comment at all WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 8 0" WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 9 Markus"Kaarlonen" Tapio"Turpeinen" Joonas"Hakamäki" Rami"Ranta" Timo"Rostedt" Roosa"Rantanen" Jussi"Mikkonen" Tommi"Viitala" Ari"Rantanen" Mika"Suhonen" Jussi"Mantere" KyösL"Linda" Karri"Kaisla" Joonas"Pöyhönen" Aleksi"Saunamäki" Kaisa"Huuhtanen" Heidi"TanFu" Petri"Laakso" Jouni"MieFunen" Mika"Hänninen" KuFeri"Perhula" Aatu"Dorochenko" Henri"Willman" Marlene"Huotari" Janne"Salo" Eetu"Hämäläinen" Esko"Salo" Joona"Purkamo" Jenni"Merivirta" Jukka"Heikkola" Juha"Toivanen" Juha"Niemi" Pasi"Sarkkinen" Sharon"Raistlin" Eetu"Paananen" ValFeri"Vuorio" Seppo"Taavila" Lasse"Roiha" Toni"Hukkanen" Johan"Paul" Janne"Tamminen" Jukka"Laine" Miika"Heinonen" Tarja"Soininen" Laura"Salovaara" Mika"Heikkilä" Kimmo"Sivonen" Tapio"Nyman" Juho"Räsänen" Mika"Kähkönen" *Aalto"Arts" Research overview 25" NUMBER OF COMMENTS BY USERS 20" Number"of"comments" Number"of"commented"quesLons" 15" 10" 5" Research overview NUMBER OF VOTERS IN QUESTIONS 50" 40" 30" 20" 10" 0" 2" 3" (17.6.)" 4" 5" 6" 7" 8" WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 9" 10" 11" (24.6.)" 12" 13" 14" 15" 16" 17" 18" 10 19" 20" 21" 22" 23" 24" 25" 26" (1.7.)" 27" 28" 29" 30" 31" 32" 33" 34" 35" (5.7.)" Important findings MOST PROMINENT 1/3 ‣ Menus should function in portrait mode also WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 11 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 1/3 ‣ Menus should function in portrait mode also ! ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 11 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 1/3 ‣ Menus should function in portrait mode also ! ! ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 11 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 1/3 ‣ Menus should function in portrait mode also ! ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä ! ” 11 How the usability could be improved • Support for screen rotation in the iPad-app! • Menus should rotate to portrait. • Menus should function also in portrait orientation. Important findings MOST PROMINENT 2/3 ‣ Uninterrupted reading experience WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 12 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 2/3 ‣ Uninterrupted reading experience ! ! 30 min a day WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 12 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 2/3 ‣ Uninterrupted reading experience When using Lataamo, I can easily jump from one comic to another ! ! ! 30 min a day WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 12 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 2/3 ‣ Uninterrupted reading experience When using Lataamo, I can easily jump from one comic to another ! ” ! • You have to remember what comic comes next when reading chronologically. • I don’t like that I have to close the comic in order to proceed to another issue. (Like · 1) • Suggested readings that comes after each story seem random. ! 30 min a day WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 12 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 3/3 ‣ Loading time WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 13 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 3/3 ‣ Loading time What grade would you give to Lataamo for comics quality? 8,9 ! Lataamo is often slow ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 13 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 3/3 ‣ Loading time ” What grade would you give to Lataamo for comics quality? What are the most important things you would like to see improved in Lataamo? • Loading of comics • Slowness • Use with slow connections • Loading time, especially when visiting 8,9 old pages • Speed of the site ! Lataamo is often slow ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 13 Important findings MOST PROMINENT 3/3 ‣ Loading time ” What grade would you give to Lataamo for comics quality? What are the most important things you would like to see improved in Lataamo? • Loading of comics • Slowness • Use with slow connections • Loading time, especially when visiting 8,9 old pages • Speed of the site ! Lataamo is often slow More compression? ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 13 Important findings OTHER ‣ Content from outside Aku Ankka ‣ Mobile usability ‣ 4,99/9,99 prize differences ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 14 Conclusions LATAAMO AND THE RESEARCH WERE SUCCESFUL ‣ Very good results from most of the questions WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 15 Conclusions LATAAMO AND THE RESEARCH WERE SUCCESFUL ‣ Very good results from most of the questions What grade would you give to Lataamo as a whole? 8,9 ! WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 15 Discussion RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY ‣ Only part of the group was actively involved in FB ‣ Users were experts ‣ Distinction between roles was vague • Developers and users were easily mixed • It might have affected the criticism WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 16 Discussion METHOD WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion METHOD ‣ Why polling and heuristics found different things than SoMe? Example: Sense of place in UI. WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion METHOD ‣ Why polling and heuristics found different things than SoMe? Example: Sense of place in UI. ‣ Common problems in all three: vertical position missing in menus, need for successive progress in reading of stories and slowness of dl. WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion METHOD ‣ Why polling and heuristics found different things than SoMe? Example: Sense of place in UI. ‣ Common problems in all three: vertical position missing in menus, need for successive progress in reading of stories and slowness of dl. ‣ SoMe definitely good in bug crashing WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion METHOD ‣ Why polling and heuristics found different things than SoMe? Example: Sense of place in UI. ‣ Common problems in all three: vertical position missing in menus, need for successive progress in reading of stories and slowness of dl. ‣ SoMe definitely good in bug crashing ‣ Difficult to analyze with qualitative tools, lots of short answers exactly to the question WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion METHOD ‣ Why polling and heuristics found different things than SoMe? Example: Sense of place in UI. ‣ Common problems in all three: vertical position missing in menus, need for successive progress in reading of stories and slowness of dl. ‣ SoMe definitely good in bug crashing ‣ Difficult to analyze with qualitative tools, lots of short answers exactly to the question ‣ Maybe SoMe needs more time and more unstructured discussion? WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 17 Discussion ...IS GOING ON WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 18 Discussion ...IS GOING ON WP1 Seminar 18.9.2013 Sami Pekkala & Harri Heikkilä 18 Thank you! EREADING & COFFEE 2.10.2013 SAMI.PEKKALA@AALTO.FI HARRI.HEIKKILA@AALTO.FI