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Assisted Focus
Another one of our great epiphanies was the concept of assisted focus. When we spoke to users across multiple industries about how they felt about using mobile computers, one of the things that they always seemed to say was the screen was crowded. They felt like they were playing precision darts on the screen with the stylus. Traditionally we try to put seven, eight, nine questions per screen thinking that that actually helps the user. That actually does not help the user. It diffuses their focus. Every time they come back to the screen, it slows them down. They have to find the question that they’re on. We took a totally different approach, which is one question per screen, with very large, very consistent, very colorful answer systems, and it actually proved to be significantly faster than the old paradigm which we learned from Windows. We call it assisted focus. One question at a time, one large system, one way to answer a date question, one way to answer a single pick question, all of which using large text and large icons that you can touch with your finger to indicate your answer correctly.
And the net result of assisted focus is more than just the speed and ease of training. It actually allows the user to exist in a heads-up state. In other words, when you don’t have to squint at the screen for a long time to answer each individual question, you begin to memorize the screen by its shape, by its colorfulness, and the result is that a worker can be in their environment heads-up at all times, still accurately answering questions, going from question to question faster than they ever could in previous paradigms, or even on paper, because even paper has too many questions in one space at one time.
Contact us to learn more about how assisted focus in Touch Inspect can make your mobile work force more productive.
