A Comparison of Pseudo-paper and Paper Prototyping Methods for Mobile Evaluations

Authors:
Joanna Lumsden;Ryan Maclean
Affiliations:
National Research Council of Canada, IIT e-Business, Fredericton, Canada E3B 9W4;National Research Council of Canada, IIT e-Business, Fredericton, Canada E3B 9W4
Venue:
OTM '08 Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: 2008 Workshops: ADI, AWeSoMe, COMBEK, EI2N, IWSSA, MONET, OnToContent + QSI, ORM, PerSys, RDDS, SEMELS, and SWWS
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The research presented in this paper is part of an ongoing investigation into how best to support meaningful lab-based usability evaluations of mobile technologies. In particular, we report on a comparative study of (a) a standard paper prototype of a mobile application used to perform an early-phase seated (static) usability evaluation, and (b) a pseudo-paper prototype created from the paper prototype used to perform an early-phase,contextually-relevant, mobile usability evaluation. We draw some initial conclusions regarding whether it is worth the added effort of conducting a usability evaluation of a pseudo-paper prototype in a contextually-relevant setting during early-phase user interface development.