HCI Seminar 357

Day 3 Notes

9/4/02

 

Reminder: Next week 12:00

 

1. One-Minute Papers

Points

IT can augment more than cognitive abilities, possibly improve entire human (and info) life cycles

Dissertation topic logic

Questions

How to assess changes (augmentations)?

Examples of human intellect augmentation? Trends?

How to evaluate a framework?

 

2. Finish Engelbart slides

 

3. Introduction to Agile views (Gary Geisler)

 

4. Brainstorming of term projects

                Tim will lead us through the UNC portal

                Jay will introduce us to the e-book problems

 

5. Case #1 BLS and Fedstats designs

 

Discuss readings:

Marchionini (1992)

Greene et al

Shneiderman et al

Marchionini et al

Carroll & Rosson

 

Resources Tour: Dassler’s info viz course http://ruby.ils.unc.edu/~rolf/homepage_rolf/sils/sils_frame.htm

 

 

Readings for next meeting:

Semantic maps: read Lin (ASIST online)

Spotfire: read Ahlberg & Shneiderman  (ACM DL)

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

 

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?