HCI Seminar 357

Day 5 Notes

9/19/01

 

1. On-minute papers

Big Point

Beyond cognitive to emotional/spiritual sides of HCI

Technology has driven HCI

The view metaphor

Questions

More about ‘state’ and its effects on interfaces (wrt web)

Shared views?  Implementations?

How to measure augmentation of intellect?

What are the tours and design sketches?

 

2. SIGIR report

 

3. Case #1 BLS and Fedstats designs

            user needs assessmentà task/user taxonomy

            OV/PV and portal metaphor design and usability test

            Relation Browser design and usability test

            RB revision and usability test

            Reflections and new user needs assessment

 

4. Readings

Semantic maps: read Lin (ASIST online)

Spotfire: read Ahlberg & Shneiderman  (ACM DL)

Eick, S. (2001). Visualizing online activity (ACM DL)

 

Xerox PARC video (1990)

HCIL video (1992)

 

5. Interface tour. VR walkthrough http://www.stoa.org/metis/

6. Readings for next meeting:
Hyperbolic browser: Read Lamping & Rao  (ACM DL)
WebToc: Read Nation et al. ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Demos/WebTOC/Paper/WebTOC.html
Fisheye views: Furnas (ACM DL)

 

7. One-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

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