1. Rob Gleasure R.Gleasure@ucc.ie www.robgleasure.com
IS4446 Advanced Interaction Design Lecture 12: Semester Review and Exam Preparation
Rob Gleasure

2. Today’s session
Or more specifically (subject to revision based on feedback)
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Designing the interface 1 (perception)
Week 3: Designing the interface 2 (affordances)
Week 4: Designing the interface 3 (aesthetics and colour)
Week 5: Designing the interface 4 (aesthetics and form)
Week 6: Designing the community 1 (trusting a platform)
Week 7: Designing the community 2 (trusting a group)
Week 8: Designing the community 3 (boundaries)
Week 9: Designing the practices 1 (tools as mediators)
Week 10: Designing the practices 2 (social mediators)
Week 11: Designing the practices 3 (socio-materiality)
Week 12: Revision

3. Making new connections
Types of learning
application
Doing things
Reflection
Examples
Understanding things
Making new connections

4. Exam structure Three questions, answer two 90 minutes
You must answer Question 1
You may choose to answer either Question 2 or Question 3
All questions carry equal marks
Dictionaries may be used for international students, however you will need to coordinate with the International Office in advance
Students registered with DSS may be allocated additional time or alternative resources, however you will need to coordinate with the DSS Office in advance

5. Questions 1 and 2 – doing things
Presented with a system
Asked to apply some one of the perspectives we have discussed
This can include any one of the following
Perception, affordances, aesthetics and colour, aesthetics and form, trusting a platform, trusting a group, boundaries, tools as mediators, social mediators, and socio-materiality
Will be broken down into parts (a), (b), (c), etc.
One for each of the contributing factors identified in the summary slide

6. Question 3 – making connections
Presented with a statement or idea and asked for your opinion
E.g. Irene Au remarked “Good design is like a refrigerator—when it works, no one notices, but when it doesn’t, it sure stinks”. Critically discuss this statement in the context of interaction design, using examples from specific businesses or your own experiences to illustrate your answer
Just one part (no breakdown into (a), (b), etc.)
You have to decide how to apply what you have learned to form a meaningful answer

7. Visual perception Perceptibility of individual items
Perceptibility of shared groups
Perceptibility
Perceptibility of non-shared groups
Perceptibility across screens

8. Affordances Clear action possibilities Clear negative affordances
Intuitiveness
Clear decision affordances
Clear environmental cues

9. Aesthetics and beauty Expertise Non-utilitarian pleasure Style
Use of analogue colours
Beauty
Critique-worthy
Use of contrast colours
Imitation
Special focus
Imagination

10. Aesthetics and form Use of contrast Use of panels Quality of form
Use of triangles
Use of grouping

11. Perceived benevolence
Trusting a platform
Perceived benevolence
Perceived ability
Trust in platform
Perceived integrity
Perceived lack of risk

12. Trusting a community Ability to personalise connections
Ability to personalise language
Trust in group
Ability to see others’ connections
Ability to see others’ language

13. Boundary objects Identification of suitable social worlds
Selection of suitable boundary object type
Quality of boundaries
Design of robust qualities
Design of plastic qualities

14. Tools as mediators Effectiveness of material tools
Effectiveness of symbolic tools
Effectiveness of tool as mediator
Ability to enable exploitative use
Ability to enable exploratory use

15. Social mediators Effective community make-up Effective rules
Effectiveness of social mediators
Effective division of labour
Effective balance of tensions

16. Socio-materiality Designing for/around social drivers
Designing effective material features
Effectiveness of socio-material assemblage
Designing effective practices

17. Answering Questions Exam technique Manage your time Plan your answers
Say it simply but use the keywords from the semester, e.g. if you are talking about ‘personas’, call them personas, if you are talking about ‘journeys’, call them journeys
Sketch out your diagrams very quickly as roughwork if you’re not sure how to make them fit together
Answer your best questions first
Use examples
Have these lined up as part of your revision

18. Sample* rubric Evaluation of answers Criteria Qualities Ratio of marks
Understanding
Accuracy 30
Completeness
Links to other material 20
Further learning
Application
Idenitification of ambiguity
Creative extrapolation
feasibility (is it true?) 40
novelty (is it new?) 35
value (is it interesting?)
Example questions
Question style
Example format
Understanding
Application
Creative extrapolation
Questions 1 and 2
Discuss how you would improve quality X (20 marks) 30 50 20
Discuss how you would improve quality Y (15 marks)
Discuss how you would improve quality Z (15 marks)
Unstructured
Critique this statement using examples (50 marks) 60