HCI Seminar 357

Day 8 Notes

Oct. 10, 2001

Note on syllabus change for Nov 21

1. On-minute papers

Big Point

Planning and executing user studies

Life cycle for interface design

Questions

How to get participants (other than $)?

How much confidence can we put in user studies?

How many subjects required for u study?

What are top schools in HCI?

2. Update on Relation Browser projects

Demo Toad interface to Oracle tables, show resulting interface effects (laptop)..use the Patent database example

3. Interface tour: Jonathan Lillie

next week ?

4. Universal Usability

discuss web accessibility guidelines (Interactions)

point to website study (550 sites) http://ils.unc.edu/ils/research/reports/accessibility.pdf

See ACM CUU proceedings

5. Eye tracking and biometrics

Note important distinction between eye tracking to study behavior and eye tracking for interaction!

visit IDL

5.5. Assignment: Outline a user study that uses physiological data. The outline should state a purpose and a method.

6. Readings for next meeting:
The promise and problems of SUIs: read Yanlelovich et al. (ACM DL)

Evaluating text tasks: read Karat et al. (ACM DL)

Optional reading: Raman (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?