HCI Seminar 310-89

HCI Seminar 357

Day 4 Notes

9/17/03

One minute summaries

Main Point

Views generalize to other applications, e.g., Powerpoint, etc.

Start with user behavior, but hard to measure/analyze

Need multiple iterations in design

Need multiple views

Evolution, not revolution

Getting from t-logs to human behavior (let alone intentions) is difficult

The extended interface—from systems to social/cultural artifacts

Question

How many ideas/techniques come from work around solutions? (mouseover still an interrupt, just shorter)

How does presence affect collaboration?

How to design for the user control versus ease of use paradox?

IR techniques for ranking and cataloging?

What are best practices for help, games, etc.?

What projects can we do in a short time (semester)?

Why not more active critiques of the UIs in class?

How to deal with resistance to user studies (time consuming, expensive, etc.)?

Can we see code for isee and rb?

Will speech ever be good enough as an input mode? (sure, it is today for specific apps—consider phones)

What about explicit community interaction in shared views?

How to slice/partition optimally? How to study effectively?

1. Introduction to Relation Browser+ (Junliang Zhang)

Assignment: select a database problem appropriate to RB+.

2. Tilebars discussion

couple results to queries

ISEE usage

3. Term Project ideas

4. discussion of Hyperbolic Browser using ISEE. Groups of four in four different virtual rooms. Compare reading the paper vs the video.

4.5. Thoughts on Web forager? (verbal discussion)

5. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Fisheye views: Furnas (ACM DL)

View Pad++ (HCIL 2000 video)

View PhotoMesa (HCIL 2000 video)

View a Taxonomy of See Through Tools (CHI 95 video)

Optional

The promise and problems of SUIs: read Yanlelovich et al. (ACM DL)

Evaluating text tasks: read Karat et al. (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?