Week 16 - User Testing #2
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After last week's results we were very exited to continue with our user test on various people and see the effects shared music has on people who have never met each other before.
This week we matched the participants playlists and chose to play them a 'First Aid Kit' song, based on their favourite artists and songs. The general atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward at first - they were not making eye contact most of the time and were looking mostly Forward and sideways. We realised that moments of silence creates bigger awkwardness. But as the song kept on playing we noticed that the interaction between our participants became more calm, less awkward and pleasant - They Talked about the song and the band, which brought up a common topic - Sweden (one of the participants is Swedish and the other participant likes the band which is from Sweden).
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Week 16 - User Testing #2
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After last week's results we were very exited to continue with our user test on various people and see the effects shared music has on people who have never met each other before.
This week we matched the participants playlists and chose to play them a 'First Aid Kit' song, based on their favourite artists and songs. The general atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward at first - they were not making eye contact most of the time and were looking mostly Forward and sideways. We realised that moments of silence creates bigger awkwardness. But as the song kept on playing we noticed that the interaction between our participants became more calm, less awkward and pleasant - They Talked about the song and the band, which brought up a common topic - Sweden (one of the participants is Swedish and the other participant likes the band which is from Sweden).
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Week 10 - The Solution
After our meeting with the mentors we all agreed on a new solution - Cooper.
We also draw a sketch of Cooper, and explained the flow of the interaction.
Cooper is a robotic object that have speakers and a microphone.
When a carpool match is made, our app gets access to both driver and passenger Spotify accounts and creates a playlist based on the music taste of both of them. When the driver enters the car, Cooper connects to it's phone via bluetooth. When the passenger enters the car, Cooper greets him with a gesture and start playing the playlist through his speakers.
When Cooper detects a conversation in the car, he lowers his speakers to able the interaction, when Cooper detects silent in the car, he Turns up the volume to make sure there is no awkward silent in the car.
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The shared playlist will give the driver and passenger shared conversation topics, ​but the volume will free them from the binding feeling that they have to talk.
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We are hoping Cooper will better the carpool ride experience.
