| CPSC 481: Foundations of HCI |
James Tam (instructor) |
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Most of this lab time will be taken up by student presentations. Stress to students that you will *not* be evaluating (at least not in a big way) the quality of the interface, although you may make some comments about it i.e., I have not yet taught them much about actual interface design! I am more interested in how they use the prototyping methods and the insights gained in the walkthroughs. Tell them that they will have a chance to reflect on their designs and change them when they begin the project.
In the presentations:
- The most important thing for you to do is to catch students who are far off base, and set them onto the right track. If you are unsure, send them to me (but not too many, please).
- They should be using either storyboards or Pictive techniques or some variation. See how well they use these techniques to show their interface.
- In particular,
- Does the prototype show the main interface style/representation?
- Does it show how the interface progresses through at least one of the core tasks?
- Does it give you a good feel of the interface style?
- Have they indicated other interface representations (ask them what other interface representations they considered, if any)
- For the task walkthrough summaries
- Were you convinced that they actually did the walkthrough, and that the insights they gained from it are reasonable?
- Are they concentrating on minor or major problems (they should be considering only major ones now...)
- Ask them if they have any questions on the write-up for Assignment 1
- Remind them that late assignments will not be accepted, that they must be well written, etc etc.
- Tell them to look at the grading sheet for an indication of what we expect