HCI Evaluation
Errors:
During game play, there were a few errors that occurred. Here is a list of them:
- Login: player 1 logged in and clicked start game before the other players entered the game
- End Game: when a player won the game, another player started a new client and tried to enter game before the other person closed their client. A socket error occurred.
Tasks:
-Time to complete initial login: 30 seconds
-Average time to spin: 10 seconds
Problems:
-players did not know which color they were.
-players did not like clicking the ok button when the game told them it was their turn.
-when message prompting the player to go appeared, the players didn't know where the current player moved to until they click ok.
Solutions:
After the surveys were completed we as a group decided to change certain aspects of the game:
-initial login stops only one person entering game
-a colored border around the board represents the player's color
-the prompt for a player to go was removed and replaced with a timer to automatically spin if the player is idle for too long.