HCI Seminar 357

Day 5 Notes

9/28/05

Next week:  Meet in 208.  Cathy Marshall lecture 2:00-3:15

Project commitments

1. One minute papers: see blogger

Adoption processes.  Why are innovative interfaces not adopted? (Rogers, Norman)

The background of design (needs assessment, prototypes, testing, iteration)

2. The fisheye view.

            Furnas’s classic paper

                        The concept

                        Why is this a classic paper?

                                    Conceptual framework rooted in qualitative evidence and psyc theory

                                    Formal framework for implementation (DOI functions)

                                    Prototype and empirical evaluation that reflect back on framework

                        Discuss wrt dissertation models

                        Extensions and applications

                                    Agile views

                                    Zoomable interfaces

                                                Pad++ and PhotoMesa (the videos you saw)

                                                Jazz to Picolo http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/play/applet/fisheyecalendar.shtml (note IE only)

3. See through tools (video).  Another example of innovative ideas not adopted?

4. Case #2 Library of Congress DL

5. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Marshall, & Bly (2005).  Saving and using encountered information: Implications for electronic periodicals

Efron et al. (ils.unc.edu/govstat)

Marchionini, G. & Brunk, B. (2003).  Toward a General Relation Browser: A GUI for Information Architects.  Journal of Digital Information, 4(1), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i01/Marchionini/

View Browsing anatomical image databases—the visible human (CHI 96 video)

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?