Universal Usability and Novice Programming

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Universal Usabilityand Novice Programming

• James Landay Jason Hong
• Spring 2001
• Mar 15, 2001

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Universal Usability

• Any initial thoughts on reading?

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Universal Usability

• Diversity of technology
• Hardware, software, network speed
• Diversity of people
• Culture, Age, Gender, Income, Literacy
• Diversity of information
• Bridge between what users know and what they
  need to know

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Universal Usability

• Adapting systems to physical, visual, auditory,
  or cognitive disabilities helps everyone
• Examples?

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Universal Usability

• Who will lead universal usability initiatives?

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Universal Usability

• What are some ways of making it easier to create
  things that are universally usable?

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Novice Programming

• Universally Usability and Novice Programming
• First impressions?

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Novice Programming

• Website
• http//www.stagecast.com

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Novice Programming

• Make everyone creators, not just consumers
• Novice document writers
• Novice spreadsheet modelers
• Novice Internet surfers
• Why not novice programmers?

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Novice Programming

• Visual before-and-after rules
• Programming by demonstration
• What's the difference between these?

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Novice Programming

• Fregean representations
• Video

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Novice Programming

• Other thoughts on PBD?

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Project 2 Teams
John and Nick - Interactive TV Peter and
Thao - Internet Devices Jason and James -
Health devices Mimi and Kevin - Aibo and its
friends Chris and Albert - Weird Video
Games Indervir and Matt - Force feedback
devices Billy and Assal - Car devices Andrew and
Devin - ebooks Joey and Joyce - More Weird Video
Games
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For Next Week

• Project 2
• 2 or 3 things in that area
• What's interesting about it (why would I want
  one)?
• Turn in
• Slides by Wednesday (6-7 minutes)
• HTML writeup by Friday night