Research Team Home Messaging System. Home Mess Group members Frederick Asamoah Rokas Rasiulis Varsha Halai Robel Kahsay.

Research Team

Home Messaging System

Home Mess

Group membersFrederick AsamoahRokas RasiulisVarsha HalaiRobel Kahsay

Home Mess

Home Messaging System • Share information• Privacy • Ease of communication

Home Mess

User study 8 interviews carried out on a variety of individuals such as

elderly, working class - transcript (semi structured) Contextual interview – saw several things happening which

indicate they would find HMS useful. Observation – what do you guys want to write for? Isn’t it the

same as the above. Data analysis – found that they still had several similar

problems in terms of the communication between the individuals.

Home Mess

Key findingsCommunication breakdown- Sticky notes getting lost ( resulting conflict)Unreadable messages (bad hand writing)Language barriers (not understand message)Miss appointments Messy calendars (many updates)

Home Mess Persona1

Home Mess Persona2

Home Mess (Prototype)

Home Page Messages

Appointments/Schedule Phone Book

Messages

App/Schedule

Phonebook

Messages App/Schedule Phonebook

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New Delete

Messages App/Schedule Phonebook Messages App/Schedule Phonebook

New DeleteUpdate

1. Dentist appointment 21/03/12 at 12:45 am

2. Parents evening 27/03/12 at 09:15 am

Name Telephone Email

John 07965655444 [email protected]

Marina 07545657743 [email protected]

James 07954775434 [email protected]

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Send Message Send Email

Home Page

Messages

App/Schedule

Phonebook

Messages

Messages App/Schedule Phonebook

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New Delete

Appointments/Schedule

Messages App/Schedule Phonebook

New DeleteUpdate

1. Dentist appointment 21/03/12 at 12:45 am2. Parents evening 27/03/12 at 09:15 am 3. …………………………………………………………4. …………………………………………………………5. …………………………………………………………

Phone Book

Messages App/Schedule Phonebook

Name Telephone Email

John 07965655444 [email protected]

Marina 07545657743 [email protected]

James 07954775434 [email protected]

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Send Message Send Email

Home Mess (Prototype)

While you were away

2 New Messages

1 Visitor