Human-Computer Interaction
20% of your final grade
Project #2
Assigned:
Part A: Proposal Due (50 points):
Part B: Interface Due (50 points):10:40 AM Monday, 11/1/2010
GREEN - Undergraduate requirements
Part A: Propose Interface (50 points)
Write a proposal for your final project 4 pages - 12 point font, single space, 1” margins)
A. Background research - 25 points
Write a description of the topic you are addressing, including:
1. Describe the interface problem (1 paragraph) (5 points)
Grading Criteria:
· Clearly stating the issue with the existing interface. Give more detail than ‘hard for user to navigate’, etc.
· Identify why you think improving the interface would address the issues.
2. Motivate why this topic is important (1 paragraph) (5 points)
Grading Criteria:
· Scope of the issue (who is affected by it and how)
· Motivation that the interface is the hindrance
3. Integrate
a minimum of (UG: 2, G: 3) scientific
literature references (15 points) that support your choice of topic and
your approach to improving the interface. The references should explain
deficiencies or considerations in existing interfaces. Use technical conference and journals (e.g.
SIGCHI,
Grading Criteria:
· Quality of papers
· Summarization of paper
· Applicability to your project
· Impact on your design
B. Define project - 25 points
A. Find A Client (10)
Identify their issues with the interface (get at least UG: 1 of, G: 2 of):
1. 3 personal quotes from clients
2. Cite 2 papers [these papers are not the same as above, and instead can be non-scientific in nature, e.g. a newspaper article on the difficulty for the elderly to use voting machines]
3. Do a focus group of at least 10 people from the population [bonus 10 points]
o A focus group means: 10 people in a room.
Note, if your client is a specific group (e.g. disabled), you need to identify a mechanism to find participants from that group. Please speak to me quickly before the proposal
Grading Criteria:
· Ability to obtain supporting evidence (quotas, papers, focus group)
· Analysis of what the clients are saying about the interface
· You should turn in as an appendix to your project: (not part of the 4 pages), interviews with the clients, transcript of the focus group
B. Proposed
Interface Design (15)
Describe your design and discuss it leverages the literature references from the background research
Grading Criteria:
· Interface redesign rationale
· Integration of cited papers
Part
B. Build Interface (50 points)
A.
Present the new interface (30 points)
<- 5 minute presentation to TA and myself
Grading Criteria: completeness (20 points), proper usage of
guidelines/principles (10 points)
B.
Turn in report (2 pages, single spaced,
20 points):
· User and Task Analysis (Box 1.1 in book) (5 points)
·
Applicability of 8 golden rules (10 points)
·
Discuss interface choice (5 points)
I expect the scope of building an interface to be larger for graduate
students. I anticipate building the
interface to take about 20 hours for an undergraduate, 30 hours for a graduate
student.
You must build a new interface, not simply move things around in an old
interface.
IRB and consent forms will be done in the next assignment
You can work on existing research or other class projects, but cannot
get double credit for the same work (“double dip”).
You can not work together on the same system.
Finding papers - The best way to find papers are:
1. Google online
for conference papers at the major conferences, SIGCHI, UIST, SIGGRAPH, I3D,
2. Look at the each chapter's reference list
3. Look at similar related papers and look at their reference list. Google on them
Issue Selection Questions:
Overall Approach:
1) Identify a client population (be very specific... e.g. not novices, but
novices at email who are unfamiliar with any email client)
2) Identify what the problem is with the existing interface (only choose one
thing, and be specific again... not just 'it is confusing')
3) Read papers to identify other prior approaches
4) Integrate those ideas into a proposed solution
What makes a good issue? Something you are passionate about!
Questions I’ll ask you the following questions when you ask me if it is a good idea.
1) Have you programmed for that platform before? If not, you should at least be able to create a hello world app before proposing your project
2) Is what you are proposing *clients* of the interface are *asking for*? (as opposed to you suggesting)
3) How are you going to find users to test it?
4) What tasks are you going to have users do?
Finding clients: You must use participants from your target demographic (e.g. elderly, children). Doing so requires significant planning, and discuss with me about if your project requires a very specific demographic.
There are free libraries available for:
· Speech Recognition
· 3D Graphics
· 3D Audio
· PDA connectivity
· Webcams (you should probably already have had a course in image processing)