1. CSC USI
Class Meeting 9
March 17, 2009

2. General Knowledge In honour of St. Patrick
The four major parts of the British Isles all have patron saints. They and their days are:
England:
Ireland: St. Patrick, March 17
Scotland:
Wales:
St. Andrew, November 30
St. David, March 1
St. George, April 23

3. Perfect Phone The five top-level tasks:
Move information to another device
Sense and display environment
Manage content and connect lists
Display directions to a location
Provide multiple path messaging capability

4. Move Information

5. Sense and Display Environment
Live coverage of the preview of the iPhone 3.0 SDK reports:
FM transmitter that finds optimal FM station for wireless link. May change on the fly.
Accessory that takes blood pressure, records over time, sends to physician on command

6. Manage Content and Connect Lists

7. Display Directions

8. Send Multichannel Messages
Live coverage of the preview of the iPhone 3.0 SDK reports:
FM transmitter that finds optimal FM station for wireless link. May change on the fly.
Connects via docking station, Bluetooth

9. Making Connections
Case Study: History facility of a document producing system
How do we understand the system in light of our approach based on models?

10. History in a Document System
GOMS
Fitt’s Law
Cognitive dimensions
GUEPs
Task analysis

11. History in a Document System (2)
Rough description of history:
What does, or should, the history do?
How is it invoked?
Model of history:
Mathematical formality
GOMS

12. History in a Document System (3)
Design of history
GUEPs
Design guidelines
Cognitive dimensions

13. Next Time
Read Way and Barner. Automatic Visual to Tactile Translation, Part I: Human Factors, Access Methods and Image Manipulation. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, March 1997, PDF
Submit Progress Report 2 by
Tentative guest lecturer and visitors:
Dr. Thomas Way
Casey Burkhardt
Topic: Assistive user interfaces