SE 204, IES 506 – Human Computer Interaction Lecture 8: Review for Midterm Lecturer: Gazihan Alankuş 1 Please look at the end of the presentation for assignments (marked with TODO)

Outline Weekly show and tell about interfaces that you use Talking about your experience with the homework Review for midterm exam 2

Show and Tell What good/bad interfaces have you seen lately? 3

Buying plane tickets… 4

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Others? 8

Your experience with the homework People who didn’t observe a user were going to observe (due date extended to April 9!) – How many people did? – How many still need to do? – High school students? Let’s hear from your experience – How did it go? – What were the difficulties? – Have you learned anything? – What would you change next time? 9

Your experience with the homework Everybody will test their prototypes with two users (due April 16th) – Check the end of presentation for more details 10

Review of semester for the midterm exam I have marked important pages in slides for you – Check this week’s website We will go over them now Ask questions! 11

TODO: Homework week 6 due next Thursday (April 2 9) If you haven’t used a campus visitor BEFORE creating a paper prototype you have to do this: Create another prototype, with actual ethnographic observation – Remember our iterative loop! – Bring a guest to IEU! Observe what they want to find/do/see Interview them (optionally) participatory design – Form hypotheses based on your observations, make the prototype(s) accordingly You can use high school students. Talk to Barış Bey in Öğrenci Dekanlığı

TODO: Homework week 7 due April 16 Get two users to test your prototype – Don’t have to be on campus (can be if you want) – Should be in your target audience (people that do not know the IEU campus well) – Identify a couple of clear tasks that your interface is created to address Test each of them one by one – Videotape the prototype Optionally, also videotape the user’s face – Learn from the user test Follow the instructions in Saul Greenberg’s slidesslides Create the necessary deliverables

TODO: Homework for IES 506 only, due one week from now (April 9) Rettig, M (1994) Prototyping for tiny fingers. Communications of the ACM, April, Vol.37,No.4. – Summarize it in about a page Also – Send me weekly reports about your projects

TODO: Midterm exam is next week Mark your calendars for the midterm exam – 9 April – 17:30-19:20 – Location: C302, C303