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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End of Semester Presentation
This week we had our final presentation in front of mentors from deferent backgrounds in the industry at the Microsoft Reactor, Tel Aviv.
In general, we think we've succeed to pass our point and vision to the Mentors during the presentation. Overall the feedbacks from the mentors were positive. they liked the idea of connection through music interaction.
They noted that our idea could get out of the car space to other spaces and have some potential. They also noted that we need to focus on our marketing plan and decide who is our targeted audience.
We got one negative feedback said that the object will be transparent after few rides and that we need to think about it for the future. They advise as to conduct user tests to several designs of the object and measure emotional impact.
We felt very satisfied after the presentation but we understand that there is still a lot of work ahead in the software development and with user tests In the laboratory and hopefully in the field as well.
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Here is a little clip from the demo we did during the presentation.