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Creating User Interfaces
More presentations. Websites for regular &
mobile devices
News
Handheld functions. Class: plan project.
Homework: Work on handheld project.
General assessment on User
Observation studies
• Good work and good presentations
– Used terms/concepts (jargon, expectations,
screen real estate, icons, experience, etc.)
– Focused on site and tasks. Got beyond your
expectations on how subjects would perform
• Write-ups
– Good as complete study of work
– BAD as crisp, professional (I did this..) writing
• DO look at abstracts (scholar.google.com)
• Do practice formal writing
Two distinct but related situations
• Web sites that detect client hardware
• Web sites for downloading to hand held
Including
– Coordination of [ipod] broadcast
– Synchronization of schedules
News paper / news readers
• [Regular] computer
• Hand held
Aside
• This is something apart from issue of viability of
print newspapers, relating to multiple issues
– Revenue stream from
• advertisements, especially classified ads
• membership/subscription model
– Market for general news versus filtered news (old
term was 'push')
– Generation of news from professional journalists,
editors versus bloggers with various backgrounds
Hand held products
Individual functions plus combinations
• Phone (phone plus carrier)
– Voice
– Text
– Picture & video
• Personal Digital Assistant (maintain calendar,
notes) (PDA plus carrier)
– Email, sharing
• Digital camera
– Still and video
• Audio player
• GPS (geographical positioning system)
General plan
• Decide as class on set of
tasks/tests/activities/questions
• Apply to various products
– Each team (4?) have 1 to 3 devices and do same
tests.
– Combine data
– Make rankings?
• Note: computer information systems are
hardware/software/people/procedures. A device
may have a function that is not well-used….
How to analyse / rate
Should each team take 2-3 products
(overlap?)
• Compare across multiple functions
• Compare for one main function
– Phone
– Music
– Camera
– PDA?
– GPS?
Assessment
• Evaluate effectiveness & efficiency &
satisfaction
– Do the functions work? Do you use
all/many/most functions
• E.g., modes for camera; groups for phone
– Are they easy to learn and how easy to do
(without manual or on-line help or, for
complex ones, with help)
– Cost/benefit: do more expensive products in
the product group provide more functionality?
–?
Assessment, continued
• The team needs to come up with the
attributes to measure and the metrics
(measuring scheme).
Task & Presentation
I want
• Research (product reviews) and scholarly
articles PLUS
• The team's own assessment based on your
experience and observation of others
– Will work best if you own the products within your
group
I also want
• Charts with pictures of screens, diagrams,
results
Classwork/Homework
• Decide on teams: 2-4???
– Common tasks?
• Decide overall approach
– Combinations versus base functions?
– Product sets
• Advance notice: Do go to
https://studio.tellme.com/
• Advance notice: uploaded guide to Final.
May still make changes.