HCI Seminar 357

Day 4 Notes

9/21/05

1. One minute papers: see blogger

Primary agile view (the ‘in focus’ view)

Building agile views for general-purpose domains like WWW?

2. Project discussions: extended

3. Case #1 BLS and Fedstats designs: the genesis of RB+

4. Hyperbolic Browser

            (note this is an application of more general notions of screen layout that will be discussed next week—fisheye views, zuis)

            Use laptops to have an ISEE ‘discussion’  no verbal exchange allowed

            View the video, add notes as you view

Debriefing discussion:

            Text vs video for a dynamic interface

            Having your own player vs projected video + chat (e.g., if you were at home with broadcast)

What (if anything) is agile about ISEE? 

5. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

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

WebToc: Read Nation et al. ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Demos/WebTOC/Paper/WebTOC.html

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  (post to blog)

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?