HCI Seminar 357

Day 7 Notes

10/6/04

 

Reminder: Field trip Oct 20

 

One-minute papers:

Is there good UI guidelines or all trial and error?  (time to bring in the guidelines books)

How to organize the vast amount of info in retrieval systems?

 

Report from Toronto

 

1. Guest discussion:  Todd Barlow, SAS

 

2. Discuss visible human---what needs to get to the client-side interface?

 

3. Usability studies: 2 examples

Evaluating interaction—what is the right balance of user control and automatic processing when searching for information?

Koenemann & Belkin

            People did better and liked better the ‘penetrable’ interface for relevance feedback in the filtering task

            See Muramatsu & Pratt (SIGIR 01) for another study of making queries ‘transparent’ in 4 ways: automatic Boolean operator; stop word removal, term suffix expansion, and term order sensitivity---in this case, search task but look at user’s mental models---not a quantitative comparison…poor mental models       

 

Evaluating video skims: Christel et al. video retrieval and multiple features.  5 alternative system instances (baseline long and short, new, best audio, full).  Integration of multiple features the best direction….implications for giving users more control at the risk of overload.

 

4. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Learning from eye movements: read Jacob (ACM DL)

Biometrics: read Pankanti, Bolle, & Jain   http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/pubs/sharat-future.pdf

 

Optional

Marchionini & Mu . http://ils.unc.edu/~march/IPM_tablebrowser_studies_submission.pdf

Bolle, R., Connell, J., Pankanti, S., Ratha, N., & Senior, A. (2002). Biometrics 101.  IBM Research Report, Computer Science, RC22481, June 2002. http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/pubs/ruud-bio101.html

 

5. One-minute paper  (post to blog)

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?