I300 Spring 2003 Assignments

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I300Spring 2003 Assignments
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No1 Spring
2003 Due 1.22.03

• Find two products in your local environment. One
  of the products should be an example of good
  design. The other should be an example of bad
  design. On a single sheet of paper, place a
  photograph, screen-grab, or drawing as an
  illustration of each of your chosen products.
  Accompanying each illustration, write a SHORT
  text explanation of why it is good or bad. At the
  top of your paper, be sure to include
• your name
• the words
• I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No1 Spring
  2003
• 3. the date
• 1.22.03
• The products you choose may be software, but they
  dont need to be. If you use an image or text you
  yourself did not create, be sure to provide a
  reference. Also, kindly submit 2 copies. One copy
  will be returned to you with a grade.

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Eli Blevis I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No1
Spring 2003 1.22.03

• Easy to hold
• 5.00

Hard to hold 50
photograph by E. Blevis
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No2 Spring
2003 Due 1.27.03

• Find an example of a software application or
  component of a software application or another
  product where the user conceptual model is
  different than the operational model.
• On a single sheet of paper, illustrate and
  describe the difference between these two models.

At the top of your paper, be sure to include 1.
your name 2. the words I300 Prof. Blevis
Assignment No2 Spring 2003 3. the date
1.22.03 The products you choose may be
software, but they dont need to be. If you use
an image or text you yourself did not create, be
sure to provide a reference. Also, kindly submit
2 copies. One copy will be returned to you with a
grade.
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Eli Blevis I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No2
Spring 2003 1.27.03

• Magic Wand Tools in Photo Editors

User Conceptual Model Select and delete the
background to isolate the subject.
Operational Model Apply an edge-finding
algorithm to find the edges according to a
user-selectable similarity threshold with range
0..255 and select a region to be filled or
cleared.
photographs by E. Blevis
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No3 Spring
2003 Due 2.03.03

• Consider that you have been commissioned to
  design a GUI for a new kind of thermostat that
  has a touch screen control. On a single slide,
  illustrate and describe the steps the user would
  go through to set the temperature to 72 if the
  temperature indoors is now 67 and the thermostat
  setting is currently 67. Your design must follow
  the principle of cognitive transparency. That is,
  your design should make it obvious to the user
  that setting the desired temperature beyond 72
  will not make the house heat faster.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document according to
  the instructions you received in class today.
  Production values that is the appearance of
  your submission counts.

This picture of a thermostat is intended as
inspiration only, not a solution to the
assignment.
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No4 Spring
2003 Due 2.10.03

• On a single sheet of paper, design an appearance
  prototype for a collaboration system that fits on
  a wireless PDA. Assume that the PDA has a video
  camera device which may be directed at the user
  and that the display resolution is 320x480. Your
  prototype should show the operation of the system
  if several people with the same system in remote
  locations are collaborating together
  synchronously as a group. Your design should go
  beyond AOL Instant Messenger to represent more
  sophisticated notions of group interactions as in
  Thomas Ericksons Babble system, but please note
  that you should do an original design and not
  reproduce the Babble system as a solution.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts.

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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No5 Spring
2003 Due 2.24.03

• Design the wristwatch of the future using the
  four basic activities that define the notion of
  design process that is described in chapter 6.
  Each activity is a step in this exercise
• Needs and Requirements Interview at least 2
  people to find out what they need and want in a
  wristwatch. Submit a list of features and
  affordances that represent the requirements for
  your wristwatch.
• Alternatives Find at least 3 alternative
  designs for a wristwatch or other sources of
  inspiration concerning time. Submit clearly
  labeled images of each of your alternatives.
• Interactive Prototypes Create at least 2
  alternative sketches of your initial design that
  follow from your requirements list in step 1.
  Submit these sketches.
• Evaluation evaluate your prototypes for
  usability and appeal with at least 2 potential
  users. Submit a description of your study.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts. This assignment is inspired by
  the assignment on page 196 of the text.

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NOTE You cannot possibly complete this
assignment if you begin at the last minute. Start
early!
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No6 Spring
2003 Due 3.03.03

• Imagine that you have been commissioned to design
  a home-based system that monitors for safety and
  otherwise assists in parenting the households
  children
• State your ideas for functional, data,
  environmental, user, and usability requirements
• Create a concept sketch for your design.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts.

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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No7 Spring
2003 Due 3.31.03

• A medium-sized bank has decided on a concept to
  increase its business by placing automated kiosks
  in shopping malls that invite people to become
  customers of the bank. Among other features, the
  kiosk software allows people to open an account
  at the bank without an initial deposit and offers
  a 10.00 gift certificate for the mall stores as
  an incentive. The certificate is dispensed by the
  kiosk, once a user has opened an account. The
  bank has retained you to do the prototype work.
• State and illustrate your ideas for an
  exploration (low-fidelity) prototype. What sort
  of things will you want to find out? How will you
  implement the prototype Scenarios, Storyboards,
  Wizard of OZ, Sketching, Index cards, Post-it
  Notes?
• State and illustrate your ideas for an appearance
  prototype. What does the software GUI look like?
  How will the kiosk be inviting? How will the
  kiosk be distinguished from an ATM machine?
• State and illustrate your ideas for a working and
  usability (high-fidelity) prototype. What will
  your task-directed usability study be like? What
  will you hope to uncover about user behaviors?
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts.

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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No89 Spring
2003 Due 4.14.03

• Go to a public place, such as a book store, the
  library, a cafeteria, a street corner of the town
  square, a busy parking lot, a shopping mall, or a
  similar place. For a period of at least one hour
  and using a notebook and pen, describe everything
  you observe about how people interact with the
  environment you have chosen. Organize and submit
  your notes according to the framework Objects,
  Actions, People, Interactions, Environments,
  Technologies. You may use a different framework
  chosen from the text, if it makes more sense to
  you.
• Describe and sketch at least one concept that
  would improve the environment for the people who
  use the space you have chosen to observe. Explain
  how the concept owes to your observations. Your
  concept is likely to use technology to improve
  the environment, but it may remove technology, or
  it may have nothing to do with technology at all.
  
• Describe how you would evaluate your concept to
  ensure that it really does improve the
  environment as intended. Your description should
  illustrate your judicious consideration of the
  methods described in the text.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts. This combined assignment is
  worth 8 points.

photo E. Blevis and C. Voelker
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I300 Prof. Blevis Assignment No10 Spring
2003 Due 4.21.03

• Design an online scripted survey to assess user
  needs and requirements for the design of a
  computer-controlled home theatre system for the
  home of the future.
• Show what the survey would look like, if it were
  implemented as an HTML web page.
• Justify your use of Likert scales, semantic
  differentials, or open-ended questions.
• Optional for 5 magic points Ask 3-5 friends
  to take the survey and show a graphical analysis
  of the results.
• Your assignment must be submitted to your folder
  on Oncourse as a powerpoint document. Production
  values that is the appearance of your
  submission counts. This combined assignment is
  worth 8 points.

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