Alpha Test

Today having alpha testing with level 4 students and I prepared a questionnaire paper for them to answer.  

The Questions are :

1. Do you have Twitter account ?
2. How often do you use Twitter ?
3. How many tweets a day?
4.Do you have any problem interacting with the project?
5.HOw is the pace of the feedback that shown on the screen after you have tweeted ?
6. Will you keep retweet to see the visual on the screen ?
7.Which do you prefer, every tweet or the visual effect
8.What is your expectation to see on the screen after retweeted?
9. What is your comment about this project (using twitter as canvas)


Total of 9 participations and the result that I get ;

For Question 1 :

Majority (1-3/9 have Twitter) of them do not have Twitter account or not active in Twitter. Therefore, did not answer question 2, 3, and question 4.

For Question 5 :

Slow

For Question 6 :

Majority answer yes

For Question 7 :

Visual effect will change and stay a bit longer on the screen

For Question 8:

- simple random flat & have sound
- animation , sound
- have sound
-animation , sound
- visual , animation, sound
-animation
- animation , sound


For Question 9 :

-It is interesting to use a social media as a canvas to produce visual
- Cool but is;s quite limit in sense of interaction users have to tweet many times then they get to use the changes animation.
-Should use if for some other social app
- Is quite interesting alarm to notify me
- quite new and seems every to spread the artwork as twitter
- maybe add some sound to interact
-is different type of idea , quite interesting
- I like the idea glitch & twitter , more visuals will make it more appeal
- have more changes of animation


Reflection of this alpha test experience :

1. I observed that not many of them have a Twitter account and one of them asked me, why not Facebook? Therefore, i have to prepare a mobile device / laptop logged in with Twitter acc in order to let them experience the project.

2. Wifi connection is important to keep connected with the project. I have to make sure the line connection is strong enough for sohwcasing next time.

3. The feedback and changes shown on the screen is too fast and user does not realise what interaction the got from the tweet. They prefer something shown longer or stay at the screen.

4. Adding sound to the project will enhance the project experience.

5. The feedback response shown on the screen is a bit too slow .