Photo library project - Userstask analysis.docVIP

Photo library project - Users/task analysis (1st DRAFT Catherine 10/12) Users Some characteristics Average Families or Household (the less organized group) Current practice: Take about 5-8 rolls a year, Often write mark rough annotation on the package (date/place/people) Try to keep the packages in order. Only a few photos per roll are really beautiful or important. Lots of repeat photos. Orders doubles to give copies to friends Only very occasionally will add names of places/people/events on individual photos. Hypothesis for Future Might switch to digital camera, but not very soon because it is to cumbersome to view, printing, manage the collection. Minimum activity will be to add a group of new photos (a roll or a group of photos downloaded from digital camera, or given by friends), send pictures to friends, show the newer rolls to others, and possibly do very simple albums. There are known set of classic events types (holidays, vacations, birthdays) and topics (babies, pets etc.), plus the need for a few special hobby topics (e.g. garden pictures, sailboat photos) of pictures that might traditionally be pulled out of the package and grouped in a special box of non chronological album. Finding photos is done by browsing. Once in a while, they will go back to find photos of a particular person or event when friends visit, when a new member joins the family or a person dies. Parents will review pictures of the children over the years. Often done with more than person at a time. The physical browsing of pictures is part of the pleasure of seeing those photos. Rudimentary metadata at the roll level (most likely in plain text form, not formal categories) A few individual photos also have metadata . Those users are more likely to annotate than classify. Users will typically have several cameras, so the rolls/downloads will overlap in time (some covering possibly 6 months or more) Organized families (The families with at least one organized family member to