Scenarios are considered a useful tool for designers and
HCI communities to generate detailed problem
descriptions, future predictions, concept generations,
requirements analysis and detailed system design
surrounding a design problem. However, little is known
about animated scenarios as a tool to co-evaluate and
further explore early user research insights and themes
with end users. In this study, previous research findings
and insights concerning emergency alarm pendants were
designed and presented as animated scenarios to older
participants in a workshop. Emergency alarms are
wearable product technologies that allow the user to alert
designated contacts in the event of falls or medical
emergencies and were chosen as a case study for this
paper. The findings indicate, that while the animated
scenarios provide a basis for participants to describe
problems associated with using the emergency alarm
technology, participants also used the animated scenarios
to discus and evaluate the key emotions and themes that
were presented. We refer to this process as co-evaluate. It
is argued that animated scenarios can be used to validate
the HCI designers’ understanding and interpretation of
early user research insights and themes.