Eric Bailey, Peter Worth

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OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
An exercise in the study of use of DIVER
technology for the purposes of film analysis.
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OBSERVATION OBJECTIVE
To understand how a user versed in film studies
uses DIVER to interact with a film text.
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METHODS
1-hr. session, video taped 4-min. clip
Chinatown 3 analysis exercises w/
think-aloud 1. Unguided (10 min.) 2.
Composition (10 min.) 3. Interpretation (20
min.) Follow-up questions
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EXERCISES
1. Mark and annotate anything which interests
you. 2. Identify and annotate the compositional
elements of the scene. 3. Based on exercises 1
and 2, develop and annotate an interpretation of
the scene.
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KEY FINDINGS
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KEY FINDINGS
Reviewing User discovered new things through
view and reviewing a scene. Constructed meaning
and added to that interpretation as she
discovered more.
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User initially observed man reading newspaper,
later noticed it was the comics section. User
also noticed relationships between audio and
video image, noticing that people cheering were
not visible by audience. User inferred meaning
from all of these.
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KEY FINDINGS
Focusing Used guided noticing to compare formal
elements (camera angles) between two different
events. Made inference that camera angle
signifies meaning.
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The director wants us to think that one speaker
was more powerful than the other.
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KEY FINDINGS
Writing The process of annotating seemed to
encourage and support the formation of ideas and
helped to raise level of thinking.
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KEY FINDINGS
Organizing User sought a way to organize written
ideas into groups or categories.
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In search of a solution, user subdivided the
annotation space with lines to create a
personalized organization system.
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USABILITY
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USABILITY
Experience was very different from watching in
class. Allowed for quick, intimate, self-guided
viewing experience.
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USABILITY
User wanted to guided-notice and capture entire
area of a non-4x3 image but could not. User
wanted to group multiple stills but could not.
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USABILITY
User noticed details in the full frame mode, but
had no way of marking them. User didnt
immediately understand that she could use the
arrow keys to advance frame by frame.
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USABILITY
User used shorthand annotation for film terms
such as foreground and background.
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DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
The ability to manipulate does afford
opportunities to become more familiar with and
better understand film texts.
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DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
A new design should provide a model for
structuring thinking such that ideas can be
connected, developed and presented as a more
complete analysis.
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DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
A new design could consider the use of scaffolded
prompts to facilitate analysis A new design
could provide a shorthand for labeling commonly
occurring compositional elements.
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DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
Revisit interaction design of full-screen
viewing, clip-grouping, and frame-by-frame
scanning.
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FIN