My thesis is aimed for helping improve online teamwork efficiency. I start to build my prototype based on online meeting apps cause teamwork rely on communication. Online meeting apps work as an main way to play the role of face to face meeting during Covid. That’s an big opportunity for me to help people get more value from it.
I recored a test prototype video since the features would be hard to test. It’s already the second version, with little change on how they are related with time. I didn’t give much background on the background story or the target user cause the people I tested with are my target users. So in the video I directly share how to use these 2 function points—— can also be understood as a universal plug-in for all video conferencing software.
Pop-up note
Feedback on it are mainly about the position and background. So I change the background from totally white to with a little transparency, and the position adjust to the bottom left corner to develop user habits. The position and size of window can always be adjust! The content is autosaved like apple notes, so no actions are necessary except you want to download the content into a file at a certain point, but after the meeting closed note can be found in the Note record Dashboard.
As the function point of notes does not necessarily need the recording of the meeting, so the notes do not have time display when there are no records. If there are records, with the selected content it will prompt the relative time entered at the very beginning. Click on the time can be quickly linked to the corresponding location of the video.
Highlights (during recording)
Using highlight is like inserting a bookmark. If the meeting is recorded, then the meeting video is like an audio-visual book that can be quickly linked by the bookmark(highlight) that inserted. It’s less likely to be a line of time but a point of time. Since it’s more focused on helping people get the information from their User-processed information.
Several other points of opportunity.
- User activity
With the relative visibility of notes by showing numbers not content , the speaker can get real-time feedback, and the overall content of the meeting review depends on who attends the meeting. Compared to the traditional video software that feedback mostly comes with chat, it’s a more effective reflection of user activity! Increased dynamic communication opportunity points. For example, speakers can be properly slowed down or focused more on the explanation, while narrator seeing more people taking notes or highlighting.
2. Versatility
Prototype now is currently attached to the video conferencing software plug-ins, later may be done as an independent plug-in to help users after a quick study, consolidate understanding, check the gaps.
3. The value of time code
The current hypothetical user scenario is online team meeting. It isn’t like an open class aimed to show the content to all the audience. Users look back at their own participation in the recording, the needs are to quickly extract the key content, then to complete the next step in the plan (no longer related with the meeting record itself)
Overall feedback
The way of using videos to explain the prototype works well with 4 users I tested with. All of them find it’s easy to understand and they do have some questions on how these two function points work with time, which I think is lacked in the video and I choose to answer after their first impression of watching the video. For the next time of prototype test, I would like to add few introduce of background, that they are plug-ins for any online meeting apps and the note is not time related unless the meeting is recorded. I would also add what is during meeting and what is watching records.
