4.+Specific+Events,+Tasks,+Explorations,+and+Activities

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 * Specific Events, Tasks, Explorations, and Activities Users will Experience**

There are three main tasks that users may engage in when using the //Virti-Cue Social Scripting Application//: **Get a Story** (to read/view), **Edit a Story** (that already exists), or create a **New Story**. = =

(Chris - Introduce - Today we're going to present a user case for you to see how our application works ... ) ** Change Slide ** Meet Bob. Bob likes to play with his brother Nathan's toys yet has not learned how to ask for permission.


 * Change Slide ** He has had several disagreements with Nathan when he has taken his toys without asking, then left them on the floor.

** Change Slide ** Nathan becomes very upset and so does Bob as a reaction to Nathan's anger.

** Change Slide ** Bob's father, Tom, decided to help him negotiate the social situation by creating a social story using Virti-Cue. The process that they go through is outlined below (or on the following slides):

** Change Slide ** Tom, gets his iphone and launches the Virti-Cue program. He is greeted with this friendly screen:

= = == = 8 Tom wonders if there is already a social story in the cloud that he could use to quickly demonstrate the social expectations, so he decides to search for one by depressing the 'Get Story' button. He is taken to the 'Get Story' screen above. =

** 9 Change Slide ** Tom then selects the 'cloud' button and enters his search terms: Hmmm .... sharing? Asking permission? Saying please? Although he finds a number of possible stories, none seem to communicate the unique situation that he is trying to portray, so he decides to make his own social story. = = Clicking the 'Home' button

** Change Slide ** takes him back to the welcome screen where he selects 'New Story'.

** Change Slide ** Any time Tom gets lost or needs help, he can look to the 'Back', 'Help, or 'Home' buttons that are consistently placed at the bottom of each screen. = =



** Change Slide ** Following the onscreen prompts, Tom decides on a personal name for the story and calls it "Bob Asks Permission". He then presses the 'Choose a story icon' button, which takes him to 'Add Picture'.

** Change Slide ** He selects 'Take a Picture' and takes a picture of Bob smiling. He presses the 'Use Picture' button, which takes him back to the

** Change Slide ** 'New Story' screen where he selects 'Create Your Story'.

He is then taken to a screen which allows him to add different elements to his story: pictures and movies, or text and sound, which both take him to the 'Story Board' screen.

There is also a 'Story Board' button so Tom has easy access to his story board,

** Change Slide ** which will show him all of the elements that he has included in his movie, allow him to move them around and re-order them, as well as add text and sound. As Bob has not yet demonstrated a sequence of skills required for this social story, Tom is going to create a movie using a number of still images that he can put together to 'create' the social situation he wants to model for Bob.

** Change Slide ** From the 'Edit Stories' screen, Tom selects 'Add Picture'.

** Change Slide ** Tom knows which pictures he will need and decides to 'catch' Bob at just the right moments.

He takes pictures of Bob smiling, standing beside Nathan, looking at his Nathan's car, holding Nathan's car, playing with Nathan's car, and finally, putting Nathan's car back on the shelf.

Although Bob knows how to perform each one of these actions in isolation, he does not yet have the skill required to perform them in a natural sequence. Tom knows that he can re-arrange the pictures in the 'Story Board' section of the program, so he doesn't worry about the order right now. He gathers his pictures first, then will arrange them on the story board.

** 19 Change Slide ** Once they are in the correct arrangement, he will go back into the story board and add text and sound to each picture. For example, the first picture shows Bob smiling and Tom adds the text "My name is Bob. Sometimes I like to play with my brother's car. It is so much fun."

** 20 Change Slide ** Once the text is added, Tom is given the option to 'Save' or 'Save and Add', in which case he is taken back to the 'Story Board' screen where is can also 'Add Sound'. ** Change Slide ** He navigates to the 'Add Sound' screen and records the narration for each of his pictures.

** Change Slide ** Finally, Tom has added all of the pictures, text, and sound. He decides to save his script to his own device. He clicks the 'Save' button and selects 'My Device'. (Bob could have also save on 'the cloud', to free up memory on his device, but he's going to use the script right away, so he wants it more easily accessible.)

** Change Slide ** If he had wanted to save it in the cloud architecture he would be prompted to choose tags from drop down menus. Tom will have to choose whether to make his movie public or private. If he chooses public, he will be required to read and accept an acceptable use policy. ** Change Slide ** It's now time to view the social story with Bob.

** Change Slide ** Bob watches the movie on his own too and is easily able to navigate through the story.

= = = = = Old work: Get Story = Getting a story all ows users to choose from stories on their own device (computer, smartphone, ipod, ipad) or to choose a story that they or another user has saved on the cloud.

Choosing stories from their own device (My Stories) allows users to browse through their stories and select with the click of a button.

When choosing stories from the cloud (Get Cloud Story), users can choose to search stories, browse stories, search personal or shared cloud stories, using key words that will be identified with tags associated with saved stories.

= Edit a Story = When editing a story, users have 5 choices: adding pictures, text, sound, movies, or managing the story board. When adding pictures, users may choose from clip art, taking a picture, or their existing picture library. When adding text, users navigate to a screen that allows them to enter their text. From here, they are given a choice to save and add their text, cancel the text, or save the text and exit.

Clicking the Adding sound button takes users to a screen with a recorder. They may listen to their recorded sound, re-record the sound, then save, save and add, or cancel on the next screen.