INLS 818 – Human-Computer Interaction Seminar – Fall 2010

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

School of Information and Library Science

Thursdays, 2:00pm – 4:30pm, Manning 208

Schedule | Assignments | Projects | Blackboard

Instructor:

Rob Capra

email: rcapra3 at unc dot edu

web: http://www.ils.unc.edu/~rcapra/

office: Manning 214A

Semester Project Information

Due Sep 9 – Project Overview

Goal:

Write 1-2 page overview of your project

What to do:

I suggest that your overview contain:

1) Overview & Goals of the project – a brief description of the project and the goals

2) Some elements from the "root concept" examples at: http://ucs.ist.psu.edu

For example:

high-level vision, basic rationale

brief description of stakeholders, starting assumptions

(for evaluation projects, consider the above from an evaluation perspective)

You don’t have to include all the elements of the root concept, but they are likely to be helpful to think about as you start your project design.

The http://ucs.ist.psu.edu website has some good examples and case studies that are associated with the Rosson & Carroll book on usability engineering (QA76.9.H85 R67 2002)

What to turn in and how:

Upload your 1 to 2 page project overview as a PDF document into the Blackboard digital dropbox before the start of class on Sep 9.

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Due Sep 30 – Tasks

Goal:

Refine the specific tasks and interaction flows that your project will focus on

What to do:

I suggest that your deliverable contain:

1) Everything from the revised project overviews

2) A description of the specific tasks that you will evaluate/design

For the evaluation projects:

Task analysis + cognitive walkthrough of the tasks

Include brief descriptions of the problems you identify in the walkthrough

(see Preece, Rogers, Sharp, Ch. 13)

For the design projects:

Detailed usage scenarios for ~3 tasks

For each task, outline the steps that you will need to support for the task (e.g. task analysis)

(see Preece, Rogers, Sharp, Ch. 7)

What to turn in and how:

Upload deliverable as a PDF document into the Blackboard digital dropbox before the start of class on Sep 30.

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Rough Outline of Possible Project Deliverables

(these may change as the group projects are defined)

Design projects

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1. Project Overview and Goals, Root Concept

see http://ucs.ist.psu.edu

2. Requirements / task analysis / usage scenarios

Preece, Rogers, and Sharp, Ch. 7

3. Initial Design (lo-fidelity prototype)

Preece, Rogers, and Sharp, Ch. 8

4. Design revision cycle + discount usability testing

5. Iterate design, moving to higher fidelity

6. Final design (hi-fidelity prototype)

includes interaction flows, design rationale, prototype

Evaluation projects

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1. Project Overview and Goals, Root Concept

see http://ucs.ist.psu.edu

2. Task analysis + Cognitive walkthrough / Heuristic evaluation

Preece, Rogers, and Sharp, Ch. 13

3. Usability evaluation tasks, goals, IRB

4. Pilot evaluation

5. Iterate evaluation protocols, conduct evaluation

6. Analysis, findings, and design recommendations