Sunday, March 9, 2008

Sasha's User Scenerio: real life "guess who?"

Taya, a second year OCAD student gets onto the GO train at 1:13pm in Whitby. She listens to her ipod and rests her eyes for her 45 minute commute into Toronto. She gets off the GO train and rushes to the subway. She drops her token into the machine and hurries down the escalator to catch the subway. She hops onto the subway and leans against the metal poll, waiting to arrive at her stop. The trains pulls into St. Patrick and Taya runs up the stairs and comes out onto University street. She turns onto Dundas and continues to walk in the direction of the grange. She cuts through the grange and crosses the street to head into OCAD. By this point the desperatly needs a coffee so she hurrys up the stairs to the second level where the little coffee shop is.
When she reaches the second level, she is surprised to see some kind of an event going on. The large group of people and exciting sounds spark Taya's curiousity. She can't resist and wonders over to the group to see what all the excitement is about. One of the teachers who are monitoring the event explains to Taya that it is the final project for the first year students experience design class. Sean who is one of the students who are running the event, attempts to get the crowds attention. Sean emplains they are re-starting the actitivity and he needs about 20 volunteers. Hands fly up into the air , and after alittle hestitation Taya decides to volunteer also. Once Sean gets 20 volunteers, he divides them into 2 teams of 10 and asks both of the teams to pick a captain. Once the captan has been choosen then Sean begins to explain the game and the rules. He starts by saying that she game they will be playing is based off of the board game guess who. Sean explains that each team picks someone who will be the person who the other team needs to guess. The teams choice is written on a piece of paper by the captain and given to the event organizers. Now each team takes turns, just as you do in guess who, to ask questions about the secret person. The teams would ask questions like "does your person have red hair?" or "does your person wear glasses?". The captain then responds by saying yes or no and thee the rest of the team members either sit of stay standing depending on how the answer relates to them. An example is, the captain from one team asks "does your person have blonde hair"? The captain of the other team responds by saying no, so therefore everyone on that team who has blonde hair must sit down and therefore are canceled out. The teams who discovers the other teams secret person first is the winner and and new game begins again.
Taya actually is given the role as team captain and helps her team pick a sercet person. Once their person is picked the game begins. Taya is the first to ask the question. She asks "does your person have black hair", and the other captain informs her that they dont, so all those with black hair sit down. The game continues on and there are only a few people left who could be each teams secret person. Taya decides she going to take a risk and she guesses who the sercret person is. Her guess is bang on and therefore her team wins amd a new team is chosen. Taya leaves the activity area and races down the second level stairs to rush to class. As she runs to class she realises how much she enjoyed the real life guess who game and how happy she was that she made time for the game.

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