Thursday, 26 May 2011

Probe Findings 1 a


Probe Findings 1

Flyers printed: 100

Flyers handed out: 36

Flyers completed/handed back: 33

Flyers not completed/not handed back: 3


20 Respondents had mobile phones on them and could receive the jpeg message:

13 Respondents had mobile phones and could not receive the jpeg message.

All respondents are familiar with Bluetooth.


How they described using Bluetooth:

Sharing files: 2

Sharing music: 3

Sharing multimedia: 6

Sharing music and pics: 12

Sharing music, pics and playing games: 4

Sharing music, pics and videos: 6

Friday Probe Test Run

We arrived at Rlabs around midday and discussed the probe idea with Brent. He offered to come with and help us at the school. Because our target market is school kids, we wanted to test the probe with them as the school came out at 12:45 (they are not allowed to have or use mobile phones during school time).


We took the "broken" Bluetooth box with us to have one last attempt at fixing it. After loading the freshly received software from Sweden, the box was working properly.


Here are some pictures taken by Brent during the test run in front of Bridgetown High. The duration of the test took about 20min.


Bridgetown High, Main entrance.



Handing out the flyers.



Schoolchildren receiving the Jpeg message.



Schoolchildren filling in the forms.





Probe idea


Step 1: Win a awesome backpack



Step 2: Jpeg on mobile phone






Step 3: Mini Survey/Competition details





Planning the probe test run


APPlication discussion

Talk around using an application for sending an answer or message came to light, because to bluetooth a text answer from phone back to box is not possible on its own.

BlueTooth box discussion

Use of other technologies / Zigbee etc.