7 - "Test Design on Persona 2(Parents of Dennis Smith)"

Our second persona is Dennis Smith and this is what they had to say about product:

Child's Age: 2 years and 6 months
Child's Gender: Male

"The Design"

Considering the design, would your child be physically able to…

• Hold the console (in any way)? Yes
• Hold the console using the handles? Yes
• Use the pen? Yes
• Use the buttons? Yes
• Use the camera?Yes
• Use the touch screen? Yes
• Manipulate the slider? Yes

Considering the design would your child able to grasp how the following parts work…

• The pen? Immediately / After Exploration / No
• The eraser (on the back of the pen)? Immediately / After Exploration / No
• The buttons (forward and back)? Immediately / After Exploration/ No
• The camera? Immediately / After Exploration / No
• The touch screen? Immediately / After Exploration / No
• The slider? Immediately / After Exploration / No

Keeping in mind the product will be water resistant / proof, in terms of safety do you feel you would be comfortable letting your child use it? Yes / No

If your answer was No could you please explain your answer…

How do you rate the following aspects of the design, considering them from the perspective of your child…

• General appearance Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
• Size Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
• Shape Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
• Weight Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent

We understand that children between 18 months and 4 years generally like bold bright colours, however, we have not been able to come up with a set colour scheme for the product yet.

Do you think that it would be best for the console to be a single set colour scheme, or a changeable / selectable one?

Set colour scheme / Changeable or Selectable

If you answered ‘Set colour scheme’, please tell us what you would like as the main colour, or describe in more detail how you would like the product to be coloured…

None

If you answered Changeable or Selectable, please circle which of the following you think would be the best…

• Product to come in a variety of set colours, so parents can pick the best for their child
• Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
• Product to have a variety of changeable colour cases
• Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent
• Product colouration to digitally change to suit the different applications*
• Bad 1 2 3 4 5 Excellent

* This would involve the casing of the product to be transparent, with image projecting technology beneath, like that in a plasma screen monitor, which would be able to display images that would either relate directly to the application being run by showing images, or at least show different colours for different applications

"Stories and Nursery Rhymes"

• How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
  
• How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
• Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Very
  
• Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
• The fact that it enables kids to learn to read and keep them busy for the kind of attention span they have.
  
• Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
• None
  

"Drawing and Colouring"

• How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
• Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
• It saves paper and buying a colouring book.
  
• Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
• None
  

"Alphabets, Words and Numbering"

• How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
• Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
• It teaches them alphabets and words although it might get a bit tedious at times.
  
• Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
• If you could try and make it more rewarding for kids.
  

"Camera and Gallery"

• How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
• Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
• Its highly entertaining and good fun.
  
• Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
• None
  

"Music and Compositions"

• How do you rate the educational value of this application for your child?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How entertaining do you think your child would find this application?
• Not 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• How easy to use do you think your child would find this application?
• Difficult 1 2 3 4 5 Very
• Please specify if there is anything in particular you like/dislike about this application…
• It's impressive and great way to learn music.
  
• Are there any improvements / changes you think would be valuable to this application?
• None
  

"Overall Software"

Please tell us which of the applications you consider to be the most important to the product, and what you think your child would enjoy and use most, by ordering them from 1 to 5 below, 1 meaning the most important and 5 being the least important…

Most Important to you Child's Preference
Most Important to you Child's Preference

• Stories and Nursery Rhymes 2 3
• Drawing and Colouring In 5 4
• Alphabet, Words and Numbers 3 5
• Camera and Gallery 4 1
• Music 1 2

Do you think your child would be interested in the ability to print out pictures that the draw, colour in or take using the camera? Yes / No

Are there any other areas of your child’s education you would like to see tackled by this product? Knowledge Games

Do you have any ideas or suggestions for any further applications that you would like to see included in this product? Quiz Games

"Parent Console Interaction"

Would you like to be able to fully control what difficulty levels of the applications would go onto the product? Yes / No

Would you prefer to manage what is on the console via a PC / Mac or on the console itself?
PC or Mac / On the Console

Would you feel comfortable downloading new media for the console from the internet (either through a computer or the console directly depending on your previous answer) or would you prefer it to be available via disc? Internet / Disc

How much would you value the ability to control what your child can do on the console via a remote control? This would allow you to turn the console off, control the volume and give you the ability to lock it within certain applications.

• Not Valuable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Valuable

"Conclusion"

• How would you rate the overall educational value product?
• Not Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Very Educational

• How would you rate the usability of the product for children?
• Not Usable 1 2 3 4 5 Very Usable

• How would you rate the overall entertainment appeal of the product to your child?
• Not Entertaining 1 2 3 4 5 Very Entertaining
  

• What would you value more in this product, education for your child or entertainment for your child?
  
• Educational 1 2 3 4 5 Entertaining

• What would you consider a reasonable price for this product?
• Under £30 £30-40 £40 -50 £50-60 £60 -70 £70-80 Over £80

• How interested would you be in this product?
• Not Interested 1 2 3 4 5 Very Interested

• Any Further comments? Its overall a nice product, different from what is available.
  

Dennis's parents quite appreciated various features that our product can offer for kids at the age group of their son. They were very impressed and thought that the hardware design was quite acceptable for their son to explore with. They think that Dennis would be able to pick up features like pen and the camera immediately and would be very keen to use them instantly. Although he may take some time in getting used to eraser, buttons, touch screen and the slider but he would absolutely love it once he gets to know about the details. They are quite comfortable in having such a well designed product and were happy to give us suggestions on minute modifications. They quite like the shape, size and weight of the product along with the software application our product had to offer them. They quite liked the fact that it had educational features like alphabets, reading along with unique feature of camera and music lessons. Overall they rated music lessons as their number 1 choice and were happy to download updates from the internet rather than having various discs. They were happy to have an additional parent control console or a section where they can actually monitor how their child is doing with great features to learn. We have learnt quite a lot from this survey and are looking forward to implement following things as a result:

• Parent Console with a website to download updates
• Changeable/Selectable Colour Scheme
• More Knowledge games
• Make it more rewarding experience for kids