CMSC434

User Research 2

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Instructor: Jon Froehlich

TA: Kotaro Hara

Intro to Human-Computer Interaction

REVIEW Group Brainstorm

[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-12-12/]

HallOfFame/Shame Two submissions from CMSC434 Student Nita Sutreja

Write down every human-computer

interaction you see in this video.

HallOfFame/Shame

[Minority Report, 2002; Directed by Steven Spielberg based on a short story by Philip K. Dick]

SomeContext

Is the Minority Report UI a type of Natural User Interface?

HallOfFame/Shame

[Minority Report, 2002; Directed by Steven Spielberg based on a short story by Philip K. Dick]

MidasTouch

MidasTouch - InAction

How can we avoid the Midas Touch problem?

REVIEW Group Brainstorm

TeamProjects

TeamAssignmentDeadline

Team Project Proposal Due: 11:59PM, Sunday, February 19th, 2011

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Due: Sunday, February 19th, 2011 @ 11:59:59PM

[http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2012/cmsc434/GroupAssignment1-GroupProjectProposal.pdf]

Click!

ProjectOpportunity?

ProjectOpportunity?

Homework Piazza response to Blomberg and Burrel An Ethnographic Approach to Design due Monday,

February 20th by 12PM (noon)

Download and look at IDEO Method Cards:

http://bit.ly/xpidxL

Team project proposals are due Sunday, February

19th at 11:59:59PM

Starting thinking about and planning your in-class

project proposal presentation due February 22nd

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ProposalPresentations

75 minute class

11 teams

4 minute presentations + 2 minutes Q/A

Each presentation must include: 1) A title with tagline

2) Problem motivation

3) Problem description

4) A short review of past solutions to problem

5) Your proposed solution and what makes it unique

6) Your target users and how they will benefit from your specific solution

IDEOMethodCards

Fly on the Wall A Day in the Life Shadowing Personal

Inventory

ObservePeople

Collage Conceptual

Landscape

Card Sort Cognitive Maps

WorkWithUsers

Empathy tools Scenarios Informance Prototyping

CreateAndTestPrototypes

Affinity Diagrams Cognitive Task Analysis Flow Analysis

GatherAndAnalyze

InClassActivity

Using the Method Cards, come up with two methods that

could be useful in each of the following contexts, and two that

would not be useful for each of the two design scenarios:

1. Helping air traffic controllers communicate with pilots

2. Helping older adults communicate with their young

grandchildren over a distance

[Cards are on the wikispaces schedule page]

InClassWork

Discuss and work on team project proposals!

I will come around to each team to help you

outline and think about your proposal