Wrapping Up

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Wrapping Up

• Studio Design in HCI
• Cheryl Geisler
• Lecture 23

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Implementation Preview
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Implementation Preview Assignment

• April 28
• Using your final delivery mechanism, show us a
  substantial piece of your partial implementation.

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Web Delivery

• If you are delivering on the web, place it on the
  web in a place we can view it during the
  conference call.

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Other Delivery

• If you are using some other delivery mechanism
• send us the files as attachments
• make sure we have the application to play them
  during the conference call

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Things to Worry About

• Size of file
• Moving file(s)
• Compatibility
• Windows 98
• Netscape 4.7
• Explorer 5.5

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Possibilities for Presentation

• Run your walkthrough
• Make a movie for your walkthrough
• Camtasia free trial
• http//www.techsmith.com/download/studiofreetrial.
  asp

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Final Presentation Report
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Audience

• Review Team
• Katherine Isbister
• Unfamiliar with project
• Outside reviewers
• Portfolio readers

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Your Listeners/Readers should

• Understand the design
• Understand its grounding in analysis
• See the work of which you are capable
• Want one!

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Line of Argument

• Intro to Design Concept
• Supporting Activity Analysis
• Conceptual Model
• Selected Implementation
• User Testing
• Impact
• Work Remaining

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I. Intro to Design Concept

• Our project has been to develop ...

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II. Supporting Activity Analysis

• The activity (name it)
• The participants observed
• Typical current narratives
• Participants goals, conflicts, and
  dissatisfactions

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III. Conceptual Model

• Transformed narrative.
• Driving specifications.
• Key views and their Interactions

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IV. Selected Implementation

• Walkthrough 3 Views
• Describe what you show
• Demonstrate the interaction supported
• Reference your participants

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V. User Testing

• Technique
• Design
• Participants
• Results Interpretation

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VI. Impact

• Size of market
• Direction of market
• Revenue impact

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VII. Work Remaining

• Remaining tasks for Full Implementations
• Key decisions
• Time and resources required

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Project Documentation

• Body of the Report
• Appendices
• the activity analysis
• disc (floppy or zip) or cd
• documentation for each view
• User test kit results

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Presentation Balance

• 30 review
• 50 walkthrough
• 20 wrap-up

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Memo Balance

• Intro to Design Concept 10
• Supporting Activity Analysis 20
• Conceptual Model 20
• Selected Implementation 20
• User Testing 20
• Impact 5
• Work Remaining 5

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View Documentation

• For each View
• View Name
• Attributes of the View
• Interaction Diagrams for the Tasks the View
  Supports
• Transformed narrative
• Screen dump of the View

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The Deliverables

• CD
• Report
• HCI
• Copies
• Copy for Us
• Copy for each Team Member

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Remember

• This report
• substantial piece of work
• capstone for the Certificate
• part of your portfolio
• goes beyond the course and into the world

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Final Individual Assessment
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Assessment

• Due May 10 (after memo)
• Tools Techniques
• Teaming
• Design Process
• Presentation and Persuasion
• Deliverables

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Purpose Compare and Reflect

• What you could do before the course
• What you originally wanted to accomplish
• What you accomplished as an individual
• What you contributed to your team

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Compare and Reflect Before Course

• What XXX have you had experience in?
• In this course, how do you aspire to advance in
  XXX?
• Now that this course is completed, describe how
  you advanced in XX. What are you able to deliver
  now which you could not do when the course began?

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A Comment on Reflection

• Donald Schön, The Reflective Practitioner
• Not just.academic reflection
• Nor simply .professional action
• But ..reflection-in-action

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Purpose of Final Assessment

• Reflect-in-action in HCI design
• The act of reflection enters into your final
  grade
• The content of your reflection do not.
• Results may be helpful later.

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Remember!

• Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds!
• The unreflective life is not worth living!
• . (enter your own saying here)

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Memo Highlights
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Nice Forecasting-Meds Now
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Nice recap-Meds Now
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Another nice recap -Closet Companion
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The Idea- Closet Companion
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Another nice idea- PackIt
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Nice transition- PackIt
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Nice Technical Preview - Meds now
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Another Technical Preview- Closet Companion
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Nice Walkthru-PackIt
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One More Walkthru- Wayfinding
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Final Technical -PackIt
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Use of Sources - Med now
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More Sources- Wayfinding
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Personalization - Meds Now
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The Sell- Wayfinding
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Problem for the Week
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As Individuals

• Pick a part of your last memo that you were less
  than satisfied. Rewrite it so that it can be
  used in your final memo. Take a cue from your
  colleagues consider adding
• Overview of memo contents
• Recap of prior work
• Preview of technical detail
• Personalized sell

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As a Team

• Share your rewrites with your team and discuss
  strategies for the final memo writing.