HCI Seminar 310-89

Day 7 Notes

10/16/00

 

Syllabus and links to class notes available at:

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

 

class roster

open info week events

Notes on midterm projects

 

Airong to discuss her eye-tracking study

 

  1. One Minute Papers

 

Main Points

The scale of work motivates automatic solutions (e.g., indexing)

More interactive =/= better interface

Focus on design elements for usability rather than whole design

Usability testing takes time

 

Questions

Will we get auto indexing of audio/video?  Is it a hw/sw problem?

There are guides/templates for programs, are there same for UIs?

Why get away from words?

What is difference between semantic and non-semantic in video retrieval?

Instead of verbal vs visual, why not best of both? Yes!

Who are the leaders in image/video indexing?

When can I see some video retrieval systems?

Are there toolkits for instrumenting websites for usability testing?

 

2. Readings.  

Hutchinson et al.

Eyes as input devices (see Bolt,  1984)

Erica for quadriplegics

Technical elements of eye-tracking described

Practical challenges—communications tedious; technical constraints (head positioning)

500 ms dwell time

 

Jacob

Need to use ET in conjunction with other inputs (Midas touch)

Non-intuitive (need multiple people)

Lots of noise

150-250 ms dwell time

30% faster than mouse (but more variance)

 

  1. Assignment: Sketch a study that uses a physiological data collection (paragraph on purpose, paragraph on method) due next week.

 

4. Query sketches.  No one-size fits all solution?

What to search (topic, terms)

Where to search (db + fields)

How to search (Boolean, rank cutoffs, etc.)

 

 

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?