Hi, it’s nice to meet you! We’re designing a music player called Husky Jam that is specific to Northeastern students. It has all the functionalities of a typical player, such as playing and organizing songs and creating playlists. However, you can also customize your home screen and join or create a music session to listen to music in real time with others.

Informed Consent: We’re conducting a study to find out people’s opinions on this. We won’t record or publish any information with your name. This for a class we’re taking called Human Computer Interactions with Professor Bickmore in the College of Computer and Information Science. Your participation is voluntary, you can stop anytime you want, and we won’t use your date if you prefer us not to. It’ll take about 15 minutes to complete, can you help us?

As we said, we’re designing a music player. Today, you’ll be helping us figure out how to make our interface for our application more user-friendly before we finish the product. Instead of using a computer, we’ll be using paper versions of the screens you would see. Jacques over here will be acting as the computer. We’ll show you some tasks that we are representative of what users might do in real life, like creating a playlist or joining a session. We would like you to tell us what makes sense, what’s confusing, and if it works the way you think it should work. The rest of us will be watching and taking notes. Just to clarify, we’re testing our interface and not your ability, so if you encounter any issues, it’s not your fault. We can also guide you if you need any directions.This prototype isn’t perfect, but we’d like some feedback before moving forward. Jacques, the computer, has no speech recognition or artificial intelligence. Because machines can’t talk, he won’t be able to explain anything to you. If you get stuck, just interact with it how you would if you were alone on the computer. Your finger will act as the mouse. Once you’re ready, we’ll begin!