To get our Wizard of Oz tests going we went to another one of Nurit's dancing classes and videotaped her for the instruction videos. Then we designed an initial version of the interface and interaction. Check out the result, and see how our first users reacted:
While our techies are taking their first steps with the Kinect system, the rest of us are preparing a low-fidelity "Wizard of Oz" prototype, to test on actual users. Stay tuned!! Oh, and Marry Christmas!!! Tom found an amazing dancing teacher, Nurit Levy, who also teaches dancing classes for the elderly. We asked to tag along to one of her classes, and she was totally into it. It was nothing like we expected it to be. These people can dance! So Tom and I said "what the heck" and joined the dancing too. The outcome is E-P-I-C: We also interviewed Nurit and many of her students, so we got lots of great answers for crucial questions that were bugging us, like: how big should the dancing area be, should the user look down or straight ahead, which dance style should we choose, and many others...
This is a special preview ONLY for our loyal blog followers! Our new and improved storyboard, with all the recent tweaks and updates! What do you think? Again, let's have a round of applause for our gifted movie-maker, Guy! Some updates:
We found a research supporting our assumption that dancing with DDR improves one's physical state. We also found a few more popular medical scales we can use to track how our users' balance improved over time. Now it's time to get technical and decide what will be the right technology to use, to make this product come to life? The two main options were:
This means we should update our storyboard to demonstrate this new solution... We're on it! |