Aoide: A Virtual Browsing Exploration for MLibrary

Team Aoide School of Information University of Michigan

Gin L Chieng, Pei-Chih (Bell) Shih, Pei-Yao Hung, Sylvia Szu-Hsuan Lai, Yi-Ying Lin

Project focus & Methods

Project Focus

�  MLibrary audio collection

�  Exploration for the online materials

Goal

�  Understanding users’ behaviors

�  Developing innovative methods

Design Process & Methods �  Brainstorming

�  Interviewing

�  Personas & Scenarios

�  Comparative Analysis

�  Prototyping

�  Usability Testing

�  Website Mock-up

Key Findings

Topics �  User Behavior

�  User Preference on Design

User Behavior �  Adopt information seeking techniques like search

engine, such as keyword search �  Ex, Google search; Library resources online search

�  Need specific information to be explicitly displayed on the explore page �  Images: album covers

�  Text: album name and artist

User preference �  Music sites tend to adopt information visualization

�  AllMusic, Amazon music, and Pandora

�  Users are easily influenced by peer recommendations

Prototyping

Paper Prototype �  Draft sketches of the web interface

�  Finalized our design

�  Main pages

home page, result page, explore page, and profile page

Home Page Result Page

Explore Page Profile Page

Interaction Map �  How information flow between pages

�  How different pages interact with each other

�  Interaction Map �  Visualize major functions

�  Highlight possible routes

Mid-fi Prototype �  Interactive prototype

�  Focus on home page, explore page, & profile page

�  Pay more attention on function

Usability Test

Usability Test �  Recruiting: 10 students

�  Age: 23-35

�  Different backgrounds: music, information science, and engineering.

�  Domestic & International : Unites State, India, Korea, and Taiwan

Result �  Explore page is confusing and need to address the

relation between albums

Redesign

Result �  More guidance displayed on interface is needed

�  Add more description

Redesign

Result

�  Browsing history is useful but requires more details about each album and artist �  More text including artist name and album name.

Redesign

Demonstration Video

Discussion

Feedbacks from expoSItion �  ExpoSItion: student projects exhibition at the

School of Information

�  Participants �  Students

�  Librarians �  Corporate associates

�  Professors

Feedbacks �  Browsing Experience

�  Department Favorite List

Surprising Feedback Music Graduate Student

Aoide as a great resource for music students.

“The timeline is an example of how the music school professors thinks – it’s their mental model all laid out in their minds. And they want students to look for relationships between the different dynamics in consideration to artist, time and genre.”

Future design ideas: Timeline as generable to different variables.

Limitations �  Aoide designed as an intermediate gateway to

the MLibrary’s audio collection.

Limitation �  Privacy Concerns with Checked-out Records

�  Non-personal recommendation system

Conclusion �  Aoide as a reflective design.

�  Innovative Browsing Experience that allows for input and output. �  Strategy to retain users for using MLibrary’s audio

resources �  Raise awareness

�  Increase usage �  Opportunities to explore

Q&A Team Aoide

Gin L Chieng, Pei-Chih (Bell) Shih, Pei-Yao Hung, Sylvia Szu-Hsuan Lai, Yi-Ying Lin