Transcript MSSE Course Name - Georgia Institute of Technology

Friday, April 1
User Testing Results
 Usability and the Web
 Personalization
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Privacy
 Recommender Systems
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Topics for Coverage
 Looking Forward
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User Testing Results
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Class Experiences with User Testing
What worked
 What didn’t
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Usability and the Web
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Is this any different?
No
 Yes
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How?
User expectations
 What is/isn’t under control
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A Survey of Resources …
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www.usableweb.com
(somewhat outdated)
www.usability.gov
 http://www.useit.com
 http://www.uie.com/
 http://trace.wisc.edu/world/web/
 chi-web mailing list
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A little history and insight
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why did the web supplant gopher?
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on the history of electronic addressing
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the ages of the web
pages and sites
 links and directories
 search
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Some Major Differences
Focus on Information Architecture
 Browser Issues
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Usage-Gathering Opportunities
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Making Sense of Log Data
Non-Task-Centered Applications
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Small Device Issues
Marketing and Browsing
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Technology Differences
Animation / Video / Audio
 Javascript, Flash, …
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Plug-ins and Players
Style Sheets and Rendering
 Forms and Navigation Elements
 Demographics
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Use Strategy Differences
Search vs. Browse
 Find vs. Compare
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Focus vs. Parallel Activities
 Scanning vs. Reading Text
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Topics for April 15th
Usability and Product Lifecycle
 Information Visualization
 Groupware / CSCW
 Social Computing / On-Line
Community
 UI Development Tools
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Looking Ahead
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Saturday, April 9th – Exam
 Designed as a two hour exam – start at
8:30????
 Open Book; write or type on your laptop
• laptop users must turn in floppy or e-mail by end of
class (be sure to name file with YOUR name)
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You will receive printouts of screens from a
real website or application
• the printouts only cover part – your answers must be
based on the print-out, not live exploration
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Looking Ahead
 The
Exam, cont.
 Questions
will cover activities
you’ve done in the project, and
discussion questions related to
those activities.
 Answer efficiently; mark up
prototype; use bullet lists
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Looking Ahead
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Final Change List – April 15th
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Remember: all changes made since initial
submitted prototype, plus all changes
desired or major ones considered and
rejected.
Table with headings: “issue,” “change,”
“status,” “comments.”
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Looking Ahead
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Saturday, April 23rd
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Project Presentations
• 15 minutes per group
• goal is to communicate the interesting
parts of the design, both the result and
the design evolution
• don’t simply report on process—everyone
followed the same process!
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Submission of Final Prototype
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Looking Ahead
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April 23rd
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Group Evaluation Due
• What grade do we deserve as a group?
• Why?
• How did we work together qualitatively
• how was the work divided up?
• did we work together, separately, a mix?
• how did we coordinate?
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Looking Ahead
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April 23rd
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Assessment of Individual Contributions
• collective if possible, individual otherwise
• qualitative description of each person’s role or
contribution
• numeric (percentage) assessment of each
individual’s contribution to the project’s success
• not merely a measure of effort, but of effective
contribution
• not a direct assignment of grade credit, but a guide
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Looking Ahead
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April 23rd
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Individual Lessons Learned Essay
• what did you learn in this class?
• or, what didn’t you learn in this class that
you feel you should have?
• graded independent of content; only
looking for evidence of some effort
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We’ll plan to finish grading on or about
April 30th
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