User Scenarios and Timelines

[26/10/2012]

 User 1
Name: John
Age: 25
Occupation: Computer Programmer 
Education: Masters Degree
Marital Status: Single
Dependants: None
Home Life: Renting accommodation
Working towards: Getting on the property ladder
Health concerns: Diabetes and obesity

John wakes up around 8am and immediately puts on his AR glasses. He ignores the advice of his “doctor” app and goes to the kitchen where his glasses guide him through making a full English breakfast before he takes his diabetes medicine. He checks his emails/facebook and watches the news using the voice commands and gesture control capabilities of his AR system.
    He leaves the house around 8:40 and gets on a driverless bus to the general office space (or “hub”) where he works. He goes to his own cubicle where he signs on to his employer’s (Skynet Technologies’) main system. The cubicle itself appears blank - identical to all the others in the hub - but through his AR glasses it appears exactly as he wishes it to. The chair in his office was an additional extra and, along with a flat surface, is the only physical product in the office. He is given his daily assignments by his employer and will be free to leave once he has finished his allotted tasks.
    He works from 9 until 11, then he takes a short break where he eats crisps and a bar of chocolate with a fizzy drink. He continues his work until 1 and then goes for his lunch in the main cafeteria. Once there, he goes for the fast food option and pays using his thumbprint. He sits with the only other Skynet employee and discusses the latest tech news.
    He returns to his desk at 1:40 and works straight through to 3pm by which time he has finished his assignments and is free to go home.
    Once home, John watches TV until 6 and then cooks the ready-made meal he is having for his dinner. After this he goes to his video games room. Sitting in his gamer’s chair in his gamer clothes (both of which can relay mild impacts to the user to replicate the impacts felt by his avatar) he spends the next 4 hours playing Call of Duty online with his friends. Due to the “full immersion effect” he experiences, John loses all sense of time and spends the evening snacking and drinking fizzy juice.
    At around 11 he finishes his game and goes to bed after removing his AR glasses.

User 2

Name: Mary
Age: 65
Occupation: Fashion designer
Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Marital Status: Married
Dependants: None but has 2 grown up children and a young grandson
Home Life: Home owner
Working towards: Saving enough money for retirement
Health concerns: Back and joint pain

Mary wakes up around 7am and goes for a shower. She goes to the kitchen where she has breakfast with her husband. The two talk about the day ahead before he leaves for the office at around 8:20. With no major health concerns, her husband has decided to work past the state pension age of 68 to earn more money for their retirement.
    Mary now mostly works from home and is seen as a mentor to the younger designers at her fashion label, Occasionally she will leave the house to go in to the studio or  to meet a client face-to-face. This morning she works alone in her home office sketching new designs on her tablet and rendering them digitally. She uses the gesture control on the large touch screen that occupies an entire wall of her office to specify the colour and fabric she wants. Given her back and joint pain, she mostly sits on a stool with extra lumbar support. This allows her to feel more at eye-level with the screen and helps prevent her joints from stiffening up. Once complete she sends the designs to a client in Dubai who then request a teleconference where they discuss a few minor modifications they would like to see. Mary duly obliges and sends the new designs before lunch.
    After a home made salad for lunch, Mary gets a call from one of her colleagues asking that she come in to the studio. With an important fashion show later that evening, her experience and expertise are vital to ensure everything is ready in time.
    She returns home around 5:30 and does yoga for an hour before she cooks dinner with her husband. Afterwards they watch an old 2-D film called The Notebook.
    Later in the evening they receive a video call from their son and daughter-in-law in America. It is her grandson’s 3rd birthday so she has sent her son a CAD file of a toy that she has purchased online for him to print on his home 3d printer. After seeing their grandson playing with his new toy, Mary and her husband wish him a happy birthday and then hang up.
    At around 10, Mary and her husband go to bed where they read for a while on their tablets before going to sleep around half an hour later. 

Name: Paul
Age: 45
Occupation: Accountant
Education: Masters Degree
Marital Status: Married
Dependants: 2
Home Life: Home owner
Working towards: Saving for children’s future/retirement
Health concerns: None

Paul wakes up around 7am and goes for a shower. Afterwards he goes to wake his children up for school and then they all then go downstairs for breakfast. The children eat their cereal in front of the TV while Paul eats at the breakfast bar with his wife Sarah who works as a lawyer. They discuss the day and decide that Sarah will leave work early to pick their children up from school and Paul will take driverless public transport home.   
    Paul, his wife and children leave the house around 8:30 and he drops the children off at school before making the short journey to the “hub” where he and his wife work. At the hub, all tenants have a small, dedicated office space while the rest of the large building is comprised of communal work environments. Paul begins the day by checking in at his firm’s space where he is briefed on the day ahead. The small team then teleconference with the firm’s main headquarters and also with other hubs. This morning Paul has an assignment to finish before lunch so decides to go to one of the cubicles where he can work without distraction. Paul is free to choose when he takes breaks and when he goes for lunch provided the work is sent to HQ before 2. He decides to work through until half 12 so that he can go for an extended lunch break with his wife.
    In the afternoon he has a meeting with a client so takes them to one of the meeting rooms within the hub. After the meeting, he returns to the firm’s space where he informs his colleagues and HQ about the meeting. He then spends the remainder of the afternoon working collaboratively with his fellow accountants in the firm’s space.
     Paul returns home around 5 which allows his wife to work a few hours from home. He helps his children with their homework before cooking dinner for the family. Afterwards they sit down together and watch television and play video games. The large wall screen and motion sensors allow for active gameplay with multiple players
    After their children have gone to bed, Paul and his wife watch a film together before going to bed themselves around 11.