HCI Seminar 357

Day 8 Notes

10/19/05

Guest Lecture:  Xia Lin

1. One-minute papers:

Self-plagiarism:  papers should be about ideas not the words to express them

Help KMT system interest

2. Koenemann & Belkin (from last week)

Evaluating interaction—what is the right balance of user control and automatic processing when searching for information?  People did better and liked better the ‘penetrable’ interface for relevance feedback in the filtering task  [See Muramatsu & Pratt (SIGIR 01) for another study of making queries ‘transparent’ in 4 ways: automatic Boolean operator; stop word removal, term suffix expansion, and term order sensitivity---in this case, search task but look at user’s mental models---not a quantitative comparison…poor mental models]         

3. Biometrics and eye-tracking (Tom will demo next week)

4. Assignment:  1 page outline of a study that uses biometrics to gather data.  Due in 2 weeks

5. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Universal access: Read Chisholm, Vanderheiden, & Jacobs (ACM DL)

Becker (ACM DL)

View Talking to the Ceiling (CHI 99 video)

Optional reading: Raman (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?