Thoughts on HCI Requirements Elicitation Glenn Fink 16 Nov 2004
Agenda The Projects What Worked What Didn’t Work What’s Hard Work What I Haven’t Tried (Yet) Conclusions
The Projects AVO HUD Workload Monitoring Visualization Network Eye
AVO HUD
Workload Monitoring
Workload Monitoring
Network Eye
Network Eye
What Worked Semi-structured interviews HCI Experts Domain Experts Expert Users Audio recording, taking notes afterward Paper and PowerPoint prototypes
What Didn’t Work Transcribing audio interviews verbatim High-fidelity prototypes Never meet user expectations Result in discussion of meaningless features Changing the interview protocol during the study This may not be avoidable in exploratory studies
What’s Hard Work Distilling quantifiable facts from semi-structured interviews Making sure users understand low-fidelity prototypes the same way you do Written interviews Requires follow-up live interviews You may never get the results
What I Haven’t Tried (yet) Broad Surveys Lab-based Studies Diary Studies Field studies (tag-along)
Conclusions Research is always hard! It’s relatively easy to: Schedule interviews Take notes Get a good feeling for the subject It’s relatively hard to: Talk on the same wavelength as your subjects Distill useful facts from interview notes Write up your findings coherently