COMM-6810: Studio Design in HCI Requirements Presentation Ember Anderson

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COMM-6810Studio Design in HCIRequirements
PresentationEmber Anderson Jennifer Kolassa
February 2, 2004
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Project Goal

• We want to transform the tedious, frustrating,
  time-consuming task of trying clothes on in a
  store into a more efficient, pleasant task that
  users will not dread.

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Project Context

• We will observe consumers clothes shopping
  activities, time them while they try on clothes,
  etc. for the purpose of gathering information
  about the actual time/effort it takes to complete
  the trying on process.
• We will observe fitting room attendants helping
  shoppers and gathering uwanted clothes for the
  purpose of understanding another perspective in
  the process (i.e., would transforming the process
  help more than the consumer?)

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Current Scenarios

• Use
• Stores currently require (in most instances)
  shoppers to help themselves when it comes to
  finding out if an item of clothing looks good.
• Users
• Shoppers must either try their luck with online
  shopping (the possibility of sending clothes
  back) or venture into a store and wait in line
  for dressing rooms, etc.

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Current Scenarios (continued)

• Existing Technologies
• The closest technology to what we are proposing
  is the current state of online shopping, where a
  user can filter selections by type, color, price,
  etc.

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Transformed Scenarios

• Preview of use
• Stores would now do a body scan of an individual,
  and then the shopper could determine if the
  clothing item theyre interested in would fit
  (where it would be tight, gather, etc.) It would
  be a way to eliminate items without lugging many
  choices into a dressing room.

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Transformed Scenarios (continued)

• Preview of technologies
• The technology needed for this new process would
  include body scanners and user-interfaces for
  shoppers to scan a clothing items barcode, size,
  etc.