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To ensure that our tutorial videos are engaging and also commercially feasible. We went through the road of observing the different ways commercial applications are push into the market and how tutorials are taught. The team even went to shops with establish touch screen base applications to see how they taught their users. Through these different findings, we always improve the tutorial videos. How can we gauge if the tutorial is effect? For that, our team will consult opinions or even through User Testing environment to see how users react to the tutorial video. From the feedback we receive, we improve the tutorial videos. Through each version of the tutorial videos, we realize how effectively we are teaching the users.
 
To ensure that our tutorial videos are engaging and also commercially feasible. We went through the road of observing the different ways commercial applications are push into the market and how tutorials are taught. The team even went to shops with establish touch screen base applications to see how they taught their users. Through these different findings, we always improve the tutorial videos. How can we gauge if the tutorial is effect? For that, our team will consult opinions or even through User Testing environment to see how users react to the tutorial video. From the feedback we receive, we improve the tutorial videos. Through each version of the tutorial videos, we realize how effectively we are teaching the users.
  
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Revision as of 17:55, 17 April 2012

Research on Kinect Tutorials

How it started

Through the FYP project, our team realize that for Kinectify to be successful in a commercial setting, it requires users using the application to be able to know how to perform the different gestures. Due to this, our team has identify Tutorial Videos to be a core portion of the project where users will be able to call out for tutorial videos whenever they are unable to perform a certain gestures or when they get "stuck" using the application. To ensure that tutorial videos are effective to end users, we need to ask ourselves the following questions:


1. What the best way to show tutorials?
2. When is the best time to show tutorials?

Purpose of Tutorial Videos

For the tutorial videos, we aim to let users learn how to use kinectify in the most engaging and easiest manner ever. The tutorial videos will be like a virtual assistant being there by your side to teach you how to perform gesture step by step. In the event that users get stuck through the application, they can invoke tutorials through a simple gesture.


Challenges We Face

1 Different from Mobile Application or Website
We realize how different the tutorial are from a mobile application or even a website. We realize we are unable to simply give instructions in a manual or just through a screen as our application requires some form of "teacher" to teach the users how the properly perform the gesture. This is interesting as our team are being engage mentally and physically on creating tutorial videos that can teach users without us being there. We realize how detail we must be in our tutorial video but at the same time not making it too long if not we will lose the attention of our users.
2 What the best way to show a tutorial video

The team has came a long way from creating the tutorial videos. From the first video to the most current video we have produce, we have experiment with many different ways to let users learn how to use gestures in our web application. This was something interesting and also challenging for us as we do not have a so call "industry standard" we can use given that Commercial Kinect applications are very new in the market. We simply have to create the tutorial and then test the market response to see if the videos are effective.

3 No Industry Standard

Given the Kinect has always been used as a gaming platform, there is not "Industry Standard" when it comes to tutorial videos in a commercial setting. We have seen many different applications where Kinect is used in a commercial setting. However, one thing we notice is how all these application are mostly prove of concepts or there are users present to guide users through. As such, to help give us direction for our tutorial video creation, our team use Kinect games like "Kinect Sports" or "Dance Central" as a guide where we see how they showcase their tutorial video. From there, we tweet it into a more commercial ready environment where users can learn gestures in the easiest way and also engaging manner.

Learning Process - Observe, Testing, Improve Approach

To ensure that our tutorial videos are engaging and also commercially feasible. We went through the road of observing the different ways commercial applications are push into the market and how tutorials are taught. The team even went to shops with establish touch screen base applications to see how they taught their users. Through these different findings, we always improve the tutorial videos. How can we gauge if the tutorial is effect? For that, our team will consult opinions or even through User Testing environment to see how users react to the tutorial video. From the feedback we receive, we improve the tutorial videos. Through each version of the tutorial videos, we realize how effectively we are teaching the users.

Our Process for creating tutorials

The next few sections will answer on two critical questions when it comes to creating the tutorial video. The questions are:
1. What the best way to show tutorials?
2. When is the best time to show tutorials?


What the best way to show tutorials?



Kinectsports instructions 1.png We wanted to make our instructions as simple and clear as what Kinect Sports Season 1 has done.


Second Screen - The different steps to follow


Kinectsports instructions 2.png Similarly, we wanted to create different steps to help our users to understand the gestures immediately.

Kinect sports.png Photos taken from Kinect Sports Season 1 Videos on Youtube

Tutorial Timeline

No Date of Usage Tutorial Image Content Improvements

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Week 6-8

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Week 9-10

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