HCI project--iNews Introduction (Yao Jie) Usage Scenario (Yao Jie) Design Evolution (Yao Jie)...

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HCI project--iNews

Introduction (Yao Jie)Usage Scenario (Yao Jie)Design Evolution (Yao Jie)Summary of Evaluation (Jianfeng Yin)Modification (Jianfeng Yin)Conclusion (Jianfeng Yin)

Introduction

Old SystemiNewsUser Population

Questions

What is iNews?

What’s its purpose?

Old System

• Network traffic• Overwhelming hyperlinks and message• Limited custom choices• On-line

iNews

• collect daily news according to users’ interests

• automatic and periodical• no network problem• off-line Application• easy extension to other area other than

news

User population

Who’s the user of iNews?

Those people who need the most up-do-date news on the web

Scenario

In the morning, you open your computer…

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Scenario

Design evolution

3 iterations

Evaluation stage

Iteration 1--first mock-up

Feedback for iteration 1

• Too many buttons on the welcoming screen

• “delete news” function is redundant• “edit” function is not necessary

Iteration 2—HTML prototype

Improvements:• Remove redundant buttons on the

welcoming screen• Remove “delete news” and “edit news”

function• Add news list

Prototype II—welcoming screen

Prototype II—main screen

Feedback for iteration 2

• The position of the row of buttons below the news story

• News source• News list• Default category and news

Iteration 3

Improvements:• Main screen: change the position of the

buttons below the news story• Added a new feature, through which a

user can choose his own favorite websites. • Removed the detailed news list in the

directory tree. • Provided the users with a default news

category and news.

Prototype III—welcoming screen

Prototype III—main screen

Summary of the Evaluation

strength: windows based directory constant visibility of system status

weakness: mainly implementation problems, e.g. active

folder conceptual model, e.g. exit, websites

Main Modifications

rearrange the control buttonsdelete “forward” and “websites” buttonsadd a “preference” button for user

customizationadd a “help” buttongive options for “save” and “print”

Main Screen

Save News

Delete News

Websites

Save and Print

when do “save” and “print”, users can choose what news to save or print now

Active folder

highlight the active folder

no need for “delete” dialogue, i.e. the active folder will be delete

Add category

add a category under the active folder

interactive user input

Remind time

users can define remind time interactively now

add a “cancel” button

Prompt for empty folders

A prompt message will pop out, when a folder contains no news

Conclusion

a personal news agent interface was developed

HCI issues considered and applied: Visibility, Feedback, Match between system

and the real world, Recognition rather than recall, help and document, etc.

Further extension, e.g. academic paper search

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