INLS 62 Class Notes

Day 4:  Sept. 8

 

  1. Term project updates
  2. Discuss Knowledge Navigator as idealized user interaction.  What has been accomplished since 1988?
  3. Chapter 1
    1. Usability as HCI goal
    2. Universal access
    3. Questions from the quiz??
  4. Chapter 2
    1. Guideline versus Principle
      1. 8 golden rules (guideline? Principle?)
    2. Theories of human behavior
      1. levels of analysis (conceptual, semantic, syntactic, lexical)
      2. stages of action (several kinds)
      3. GOMS and other activity models
      4. Context of use
      5. object-action (nouns/verbs)
  5. Assignment:  Read Chapter 3 for next Monday and complete the online quiz
  6. One minute paper:  post to blog
    1. main point you learned today
    2. main unanswered question you left class with