HCI Seminar 357

Day 7  Notes

10/8/03

 

One minute summaries

Main Point

 

Question

 

 

1. (finish from last week) 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)

 

2. 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

 

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

why not adopted?

 

4. User-centered design and usability

            User needs assessment

            Participatory design and discount testing

            Prototypes and user testing

            Formal usability studies

            IRBs

           

 

5. Examples

Koenemann & Belkin

Christel et al.

 

6. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Learning from eye movements: read Jacob (ACM DL)

Biometrics: read Pankanti, Bolle, & Jain  . http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/pubs/sharat-future.pdf

 

Optional

Marchionini & Mu . http://ils.unc.edu/~march/IPM_tablebrowser_studies_submission.pdf

Bolle, R., Connell, J., Pankanti, S., Ratha, N., & Senior, A. (2002). Biometrics 101.  IBM Research Report, Computer Science, RC22481, June 2002. http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/pubs/ruud-bio101.html

 

 

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?