HCI Seminar 357
Day 2 Notes
8/29/01

note: Next week Ben Brunk and RB

1. On-minute papers
Big Point
Design as much art as science
Engineering handbook ‘myth’
Questions
How many ads will users tolerate on web sites?
Role of HCI in systems analysis?
More about usability studies implications for websites as cultural artifacts
Are there no best practices in hci?
257 vs 357?

2. Interaction experience:
report experiences & discuss

3. Readings
Englelbart and augmentation (see PP slides)
Marchionini & Komlodi (see figs)
Hearst—integrating visualization with IR

4. Information seeking framework  (see PP slides)

5. Read for next week
SILS perspective: Read Marchionini, Geisler, & Brunk http://ils.unc.edu/~march/agileviews/Agileviews.pdf
Framework for interfaces to support information seeking: read Marchionini (1992)  (ASIST online)
Overviews and previews: read Greene et al. http://ils.unc.edu/~march/jasis_ovpv.pdf  (also ASIST online w/o color)
Requirements for search; read Shneiderman et al. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/retrieval/01shneiderman.html (DLIB)

6. One-minute paper
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?