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Agenda for Day 27

  1. Announcements
  2. Assignments
    • Return Portfolios
      • Mean score: 71.9 out of 80 (90%)
      • Mean completion time: 6.5 hours
    • Physical Design and Portfolio due Monday
      • Three screen images from your prototype project, one per page.
      • Annotate the screen images (neat hand-annotation is OK) with descriptions of the GUI components' functionality
      • Place in a complete Portfolio Binder
      • Include Time Log for Physical Design Phase
    • Have a copy of your prototype program available on the Hebeler lab computers (or your notebook) for peer reviews on Monday

  3. Readings
    • For today's lecture/discussion, read Chapters 22 & 23 of textbook

  4. Today's Activities
  5. Lecture topics and learning objectives: Evaluation
    After today's class, you should be able to
    • List concerns and strategies for choosing users, tasks, timetable, and locations for user interface evaluations

  6. References
    PowerPoint Slides for Chapters 22 & 23 [as *.ppt]
    Seven PowerPoint slides to accompany the discussion of Chapters 22 & 22 of the textbook
    The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
    Presents the key results of recent eyetracking research done on news sites.
    F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
    Jacob Nielson study using eyetracking visualizations that showed that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
    Using Eye Tracking to Compare Web PageDesigns: A Case Study
    PDF of Journal of Usability Studies Issue 3, Vol. 1, May 2006, pp. 112-120

Ed Gellenbeck, Department of Computer Science, CWU
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