HCI Seminar 357

Day 6  Notes

10/1/03

 

One minute summaries

Main Point

 

Question

 

1. Term Project discussion

2. RB+ project updates

 

3. Information Architecture and the problem of metadata:  from representation to layout

Categorization to support browsing

Automatic approaches to categorization

Discuss Efron paper.  How to automatically slice and dice?  How to automatically label (extract or discover metadata)

 

4. Getting metadata to the client side and Interface servers

Discuss visible human---what needs to get to the client-side interface?

Can we develop intermediate services that provide interface support to people on demand? 

            Data provider takes code and gives user choices

            Data provider provides data to service and passes users through proxy

            Data provider provides data to service and service sends back interface to run on provider server

            Data provider publishes scheme to world, services harvest and provide interface to user

            Data provider publishes scheme to world, services harvest on the fly per user requests

 

5. Magic lens’ and other control mechanism. [from last week]

[class discussion]

 

6. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Evaluating interaction: Read Koenemann & Belkin (ACM DL)

Evaluating video skims: Read Christel et al. (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?