HCI Seminar 818

Day 4 Notes

9/12/07

1. Beyond Basic Search http://www.ils.unc.edu/~march/uiuc_07.ppt

2. Project discussions

3. Case #1 BLS and Fedstats designs: the genesis of RB+

4. Assignment: Part 1.  Choose one of the Wii sports games and play for 15 minutes alone using the remote control input device.  Use the NASA TLX scale (see handout) to give a rating on a 1-7 scale and write one or two sentences to explain your rating for each of the 10 items.  Part 2. Play one of the games with someone else in the class for 15 minutes. Together, use the NASA TLX scale to give a rating on a 1-7 scale and write one or two sentences to explain your rating for each of the 10 items.  Together write a short critique of the remote controller that includes comments about the device the interaction style, and a paragraph on how the device and style promote or inhibit shared experience. Due in two weeks (Sept 28).

5. Readings/viewings for next meeting:

Schiphorst (2007)...movement and experience Schiphorst, T. (2007).  Really, really small: The palpability of the invisible. Proceedings of Creativity & Cognition 07 (June 13-15, 2007, Washington DC).  NY: ACM Press.

(ACM DL)

Hyperbolic browser: Read Lamping & Rao  (ACM DL)

WebBook and Forager (CHI 96 video) http://open-video.org/details.php?videoid=4572

Large Trees and the Hyperbolic Browser (CHI 96) http://open-video.org/details.php?videoid=4567

Optional

Semantic maps: read Lin (ASIST online)

Eick, S. (2001). Visualizing online activity (ACM DL)

6. One-minute paper 

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?