1. Interaction Project: Project start
Interaction Project: Project start 50pt-due Nov 17 in class Project final 75pt-due Dec 1 in class Project presentation 50 pt-Sign up appointments Tuesday 11/29 to Thursday 12/1
SWE 4783 Fall 2016

2. Goal for the Interaction Project
To Examine the designer’s Deputy Discourse for an interface
Novice discourse then expert discourse
Find the dynamically representation
Notice the learned progression
Discover elements known to user and aspect never seen/experienced by user and the unknown aspects are “bridge” intuitive. (“bridge” = via user experimentation)

3. Project Start Investigate your current email system

4. Models for understanding language
Language is CONSTRUCTED by people to produce meanings within their culture
It is only when we name objects and events that they are given meaning and definition
The social contract of language means that we agree to use the same language as everyone else so they understand us.
We can however play with the language of our society through signs, codes and patterns as well as words.
Message Header Body Attachment
What is an ?
What is an message?

5. Rise of mobile community
Instant messaging
Short messaging “texting”
70% Hungarians text
32% South Africans have mobile phones
2.8 million Internet access
Why are online communities important?
Many people use them
110,500+ UseNet News Group
36,000 active per day
178m messages in 2002, up 13% since 2001
1/3 Americans used online groups (Pew, 10/01) .
For example, approximately 1 in three Americans went on line in 2001 to develop deeper ties with their local community. Many also accessed health, support and other types of community.

6. Interface Environment Style
Question:
What is the look and feel of ?

7. What features are important to you?
Who will be the user in your Project? What features are important to your user? Personalization of Attachment features Search / Filter features Organizational features Address Book Activity Management Protection

8. Project Start I. Investigate your current email in a Start Session.
Plan three tasks for your start session. Look at the features on previous slide and make one task a feature you have not used before. Document the 3 tasks as specific goals.
Plan your utterances as *tags* (see next slide)
Time/ location of your start session
Demographics (include usage frequency, usage history, etc)
Task T0 – (Just like ULAB. First describe what you see)
interface communicability
Perform Task T1, T2, and T3 –Using Norman’s 7 states of cognition
1. Goal
2. Intention
3 and 4. Specify and execute the Action
5. Perceive the system state (Here I want you to use the *tags* on next slide.
6. Interpret the system state
7. Evaluate the system state with respect to the goals and intentions
Give a table with the raw data of screens, intent/thoughts/comments, and actions for your accomplishment of Task 1, 2, and 3. Review the boxes on pages 116 – 121 and provide an illustrated narrative of your interaction besides the raw data.

9. Categorization of communicability
Your book showed specific utterances as tags
Looks fine to me
What happened?
Oops!
Help
Why
Where is it
What now?
Please state your planned utterances

10. Project Start (continued)
II. Evaluate Communicability and the Designer’s Deputy Discourse
Your current was designed by “Mary”
Mary tells the user what?
which signs has Mary made available?
What are the Meanings of the signs
Give one specific “Speech act” performed by User (you) and designer’s deputy that
both produce illocutions where:
expression
content
intent
bring perlocution (effect on the state of affairs).

11. Project Start (continued)
III. Evaluate Communicability and the Designer’s Deputy Discourse
Give the errors (failures) in your start session. Look at the next slide….
Complete failures?
Temporary Failures?
Partial failures?
With respect to:
Visibility
Recall prior knowledge
Affordance
Feedback
Consistency
Simplicity
Simple and intuitive use
Project Start is 50pt-due Nov 17 in class

12. Errors in Semiotics Complete Failures (I) Global illocution
Not consistent
Global perlocution
User aware (Ia)
User unaware (Ib)
Temporary Failures (II)
Global
Consistent
User’s semiosis halted
User reformulates illocution
User studies deputy illocution
Local illocution
Local perlocution
IIa
IIb
IIc
Partial Failures (III)
Local
User does not understand deputy illocution
Understands but fails to do expected