During the evaluation process, I recognised some possible improvements for my project:
- Customizable AR Experience: Allow elderly users to adjust the complexity of the AR experience (such as the level of detail in 3D models) to decide on their personal comfort levels and prevent sensory overload.
- Feedback on Emergency Alerts: Provide immediate audio or haptic feedback to confirm that an emergency alert has been successfully sent to the museum staff.
- Battery Life Optimization: Since museum visits can be lengthy, ensuring the device has sufficient battery life or providing a power-saving mode will be beneficial for elderly visitors.
After considering on above, I added some features to my design:
1. Iterating MuseumMate smartwatch UI and functionality design :
I add the Low Battery mode and SOS notification setting to my Smartwatch Design. The SOS notification design aimed at elderly users typically involves confirming that the distress signal has been successfully sent.
Iterating the Feedback on Emergency Alerts:
- Clear Confirmation: Once the SOS is activated, the smartwatch should provide a clear indication, like vibration and audible notification, to confirm that the signal has been sent.
- Feedback on Status: The watch can show ongoing status updates, such as “Help is on the way” on smartwatch screens
Iterating the Battery Life Optimization:
Adding a Low Battery mode and SOS notification setting to a smartwatch interface design, especially for elderly users in a museum setting, offers several benefits:
- Energy Efficiency: A Low Battery mode ensures that the smartwatch remains operational for longer periods, which is crucial for day-long museum visits.
- Better Experience: With these features, elderly visitors can focus on enjoying the museum without worrying about their device battery life.
Overall, these features enhance the usability and safety of smartwatches for elderly museum visitors, enriching their experience.
Iterating Smartwatch Interface Design Final Outcome:
2. Iterating MuseumMate App interface design
In my MuseumMate App design, I incorporate a Customizable AR Experience button into the left top, This switch button can alter the AR 3D display of artefacts in a museum setting is a thoughtful and innovative approach. This switch models feature can switch between cartoon-like 3D representations and painted 3D styles, allowing elderly visitors to adjust according to their personal comfort levels and prevent sensory overload.
- Personalization: It caters to individual preferences, allowing the elderly to choose the display style that appeals to them the most.
- Enhanced Accessibility: This feature can make the museum experience more inclusive, especially for elderly visitors who may find certain visual styles overwhelming or difficult to process.
- Improved Engagement: Providing different visual representations, can make learning and exploring more engaging and enjoyable for elderly people.
- Educational Value: Different visual styles can highlight various aspects of the artefacts, offering educational insights in a manner that resonates with kids and students, especially for elderly people, different styles of the artefacts could help the elderly people learn more about the artefacts, it can also give the inspiration and teaching the drawing style when elderly people drawing the artefact through the MuseumMate Drawing feature.
Overall, this switch models button can enhance the interactive and visual experience for elderly museum visitors to view the artefacts in the museum.
Improve the Customizable AR Experience:
Re-evaluation and Re-testing process
Re-testing: I have redesigned and retested my MuseumMate design, as it’s important to test my MuseumMate product again, as it is to ensure that I have effectively resolved the issues. As a result of this stage, the result of re-design and testing appears that the improvement I made has solved all the problems above.
Re-evaluation and testing of the MuseumMate Design
Re-evaluation and testing of the MuseumMate smartwatch Design
For future iterating and improvement: I would like to continuously collect feedback from users to guide further iterations and make changes to my MuseumMate product.