Scenarios

After the identification of the personas we contextualised them into scenarios in using our application. This helped us simulate the user experience, discover and prevent unwanted behaviour as well as refine accessibility for a diverse range of potential users. Moreover, we outlined two main representative scenarios.

Scenario 1

Chris West has just received a new manuscript of Princess Elizabeth Prayerbook and he’s required to find a correlation with another manuscript. He thus uploads the document to the database of the Scribal Handwriting tool and select one character of a page to find similar characters produced by the same scribe. The Scribal Handwriting tool researches possible matches across the database and return the user the matching results.

Scenario 2

Rachel Balmer is conducting research on a particular scribe: Robert Thornton, a Middle English scribe from Yorkshire. To accelerate her research, she uses the Scribal Handwriting tool to select a identifying character that the famous scribe uses to search more of the scribe’s work in the database. The tool did not find similar characters in the database thus prompts the user to select characters that might be potential matches and refine the search. It then returns candidate matches.