Evaluation Scott Klemmer 21 October 2004

cs547: Ken Hinckley, Microsoft High Performance Pen Interfaces 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Evaluation Methods http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/methods.htm 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety What are the possible benefits of adding computing to Biology Researchers’ workflow? This is just a brainstormed list… some benefits overlap, and I’m not claiming this is a complete set. 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Efficient Entering of Data… Tagging Images (Merrie Ringel)… Propagate Data Efficiently to all usage contexts (Museum exhibit w/ baby photos of animals; db gets updated… should museum get updated too?) T9 Text input for mobile devices.. http://www.billbuxton.com/PieMenus.html 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits More User Control Efficiency Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety … import ClientCookie openfun = ClientCookie.urlopen reqfun = ClientCookie.Request cj = ClientCookie.LWPCookieJar() if os.path.isfile(COOKIEFILE): cj.load(COOKIEFILE) opener = ClientCookie.build_opener(ClientCookie.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) ClientCookie.install_opener(opener) USER CONTROL/ FLEXIBILITY 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Affords Collaboration Efficiency More User Control Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Work on organizing specimens together? Share data better? 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Capture and Access Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits See, Feel, Sense More Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety What are the possible benefits of adding computing to Biology Researchers’ workflow? This is just a brainstormed list… some benefits overlap, and I’m not claiming this is a complete set. E J Marey, Paris to Lyon Train Schedule, 1878 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Search, Browse, Organize Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Better technology for Biologists to organize their physical specimens? Search through them? 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Communication Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Maybe biologists can share information more easily and communicate w/ each other… 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Distributing Cognition Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety External Tools (artifacts, or other humans) Encompasses two concepts (Distributed Cognition…) People solving problems collectively rather than as isolated individuals… A community of learners… offload cognition to artifacts (like paper drawings/graphs) to accomplish joint work… Also related to Don Norman’s concept of knowledge in the world, versus knowledge in the head. 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Ease of use/Ease of learning Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety What are the possible benefits of adding computing to Biology Researchers’ workflow? This is just a brainstormed list… some benefits overlap, and I’m not claiming this is a complete set. 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Informality of Interaction Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety What are the possible benefits of adding computing to Biology Researchers’ workflow? This is just a brainstormed list… some benefits overlap, and I’m not claiming this is a complete set. Mark Newman et al, DENIM 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Better Mappings/Embodiment Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety What are the possible benefits of adding computing to Biology Researchers’ workflow? This is just a brainstormed list… some benefits overlap, and I’m not claiming this is a complete set. 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Agents – Proactive Computing Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Agents that help Biologists organize data? Machine Learning approaches?? 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Awareness Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Buddy List w/ away messages… idle times, etc… Even indicators if ppl are typing to you… Bio… who’s in the field today… where are they? 21 October 2004 Evaluation

Possible Benefits Safety Efficiency More User Control Affords Collaboration Capture and Access See, Feel, Sense More Search, Browse, Organize Communication Distributing Cognition Ease of use/Ease of learning Informality of Interaction Better Mappings/Embodiment Agents – Proactive Computing Awareness Safety Biology… not going to concentrate on this… 21 October 2004 Evaluation