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Our team’s design review took place on Thursday, May 11st, 2017 at 2:30 pm in the Ford Design Center. The purpose of the review was to report the latest changes to our project, and gather feedback on our final project deliverable. Professors DeCosta and Del Torto and our fellow coursemates were present to review our design.

 

We presented a summary of our project progress, our updated mission statement, our final user profile, our user observation and testing findings, and our final design concept. We focused on explaining what our user observations and testing revealed about our user’s specific behaviours and interest with VR. Having established the context, we explained three components of our final design, namely, the script, visuals, and rationale.

 

We documented the feedback received in writing. The following table summarises the types of comments and concerns our reviewers had.

Design Review

Expert interview

  • Interview Michele, a speech and language pathologist and co-founder of special education school for autism

  • Ask Michele what type of activities and social experiences does she see being plausible and valuable to be incorporated in VR

  • Clarify the appropriate terminology to refer to different demographics within the autism spectrum ​

User observation

  • Clearly distinguish between observations and interpretations

  • Interpretations are more justified when they are supported by people who know our user well (e.g. Mother, high school teachers, therapist)

  • Check with user if we can use his name and photo​

Autism

  • People on the autism spectrum tend to experience constrained motor planning and sequencing, which is why our user Ethan enjoyed “Tilt Brush” application more than “Job Simulator” because the former provided more freedom. ​

Suggestions on next step

  • Find a way to link open-ended “Tilt Brush “ creativity that children with autism enjoy along with the “Job Simulator” type of rigid framework.

  • Create a single VR test environment that would allow user to customise the program to different levels of manipulation and sequencing.

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