HCI Seminar 310-89

Day 12 Notes

11/20/00

Syllabus and links to class notes available at:

http://ils.unc.edu/~march/courses/310_f00/syllabus.html

ASIS&T reports

Look at Perseus site http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

1. One Minute Papers

Main Points

IA issues

Usability testing may be strongly influenced by novelty

Questions

Why not open source the RB (we are)

Implications of ubiquitous computing for design

Should SILS have an incubator for student startups?

Which direction? Client/server, peer to peer, ASP?

2.. Case 3: Table Browser (next time)

http://idl59.ils.unc.edu/demo/current/demo.html

3. discuss results sketches

Deng http://dbserv.ils.unc.edu/projects/Teresa/searchm2_rev.html

Denn http://ils.unc.edu/~denns/inls310-89/sheilasearch.html

Spinks http://www.ils.unc.edu/~spinr/searchdemo/ovsearch.html

4. Paper discussions:

Bederson & Hollan: pad++

also show video

show Jazz demo http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/play/hinote-0.5/jazz-mid-talk.html

Robertson et al. Data Mountain

What is spatial memory ?

Added value of thumbnails

Audio advantages?

Importance of smooth dynamics (moving pages out of way)

Representations vs mechanisms (hybrid here with traditional mechanisms)

5. One-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

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