Week 10 Emerging Practice
As I mentioned in my post previously (see post I updated after last monday http://yuqingyo.tumblr.com/post/151003150654/week-9-emerging-practice), I’ve updated my design for prototyping because I realise there are some problems when I was doing the experiment. So the updated version has three - ll from the grandparents, the parents and girlfriend/boyfriend, actually there are six options when they voice calls and videos calls. The situations are: 1.when you are cooking in the kitchen, 2.when you are at the birthday party, 3.when you are reading book in bed and when you are having dinner with family. What I did was the physical version of an interactive video, due to the lack of time.
Out of the people I asked, not all of them fit the situations what I set them up for. For example, I got the respond that: they don’t usually talk to their grandparents, either they passed away or they don’t have good relationship with them; most of them live with their parents so they wouldn’t know how it exactly feel when they move out and live by themselves. I also got some funny responses like “Why my girlfriend is not with me at my birthday party? Why wouldn’t I visit her?”, “Am I right at that moment when I’m about to blow the candle (that’s what the image shows), if yes then I’m not going to pick up the call.”, “It really depends on the situation, why are they ringing? Is there any emerging case?” “My grandparents usually only call me to ask where my mum is or ask me to pass the phone onto my mum so yea.” etc.
Therefore, I would ask them about their relationship with their families first then see which situations fit them, after that I will start doing the prototyping. For instance, if they don't have good relationships with their grandparents then I would not ask them all the questions about grandparents. So from what I got, people are most likely to pick up the voice call when they are in situation 1&2&3, they wouldn’t like to pick up the calls during their family dinner because they think it’s quite rude to answer calls at dining table. Also, they would more likely to pick up the calls when it’s voice call, some people even questioned “why would I video call people?.” In my opinion, that is because most of kiwis live in the same country as them, so instead of video-calling they can just meet up in person.