Creating User Interfaces

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Creating User Interfaces

• Continue presentations as needed. Registration
• Homework Make posting on registration. Think
  ahead on handheld/mobile device project

2
Old termstill useful

• Computer information system is made up of
• hardware
• may need to work with different hardware
• Add network
• software
• expand layers
• people
• procedures

3
Registration

• Any new functional features?
• As experienced users, any comments?
• Describe
• hardware
• software
• people
• procedures

4
Mobile devices

• Hand held
• We may choose to include GPS/other in cars
• New world
• Does there need to be a smooth transition between
  modes of interaction? Do certain modes switch
  balance of interactionmore input/less output?
• Very short article http//www.technologyreview.co
  m/blog/editors/26233/

5
Much talk

• People will never
• tolerate small video
• cope with video and text on screen and
• accept limited keyboard
• tolerate less than full speech recognition
• use 140 characters for messages
• lack of privacy
• learn new interfaces / standards
• But remember qwerty still is dominant for full
  keyboards!
• ???

6
Multitasking / attention

• Much talk, theory and some empirical study
• Mainly talk (well-reasoned) The Myth of
  Multitasking http//www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib
  /20080605_TNA20Rosen.pdf
• Note time lag in scholarly work

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Handheld/mobile devices

• Whole class
• decide on 2-4 tasks to be evaluated on specific
  set of different devices.
• decide on classes of users and number of users.
• each team responsible for 1 device.
• formulate the testing.
• qualitative and quantitative measurements
• We will do this next class. Presentations 1 week
  later.

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Homework

• Prepare and make posting to moodle on your
  registration experiences and comment on others.