HCI Seminar 310-89

Day 8 Notes

10/23/00

Syllabus and links to class notes available at:

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

1. One Minute Papers

Main Points

Eye tracking

Multimodal Input

Combine multiple data in usability

Questions

What are the new I/O interfaces?

What can we do about user defined visualization interfaces?

Can we come up with a general search interface (given user differences)?

This week’s N&O article on IBM wearables (Dan Russell with the eyeglasses)

CACM & IEEE Computer articles on personalization and biometrics

3. Revise your search design any way you want, and include a results screen/window

(some of you have tightly coupled search and results and can treat this as next iteration)

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.)

Labels (search/go/submit…..)

Who are the users?

On-the-fly ‘help/feedback’ vs after the enter key is pressed

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?