- INFO I502 - Class Notes for 05 February 2008
- Administrata
- Posted grades for Assignment 1
- General Comments (Will)
- Tough Assignment
- Will not have tremendous impact on your overall grades
- Feel free to talk with WIll or Jeff if you have questions about yoru grade
- What were Jeff & Will looking for on the assignment?
- Critical thinking
- Engages the sources
- Drew on own pesonal experience
- In the introduction
- Definition of what an expression is
- Specific focus (the expression the student chose)
- What's to follow
- Expression Interpretation
- Identifies key theme of the expression
- Identifies the technique for interpretation
- Critical interpretation
- Explanation of the Design
- How it ties to the expression
- Identifies who the major audience is
- GRADING CRITERIA
- Expression
- Idenfiication
- Why is it an expression?
- Critical Interpretation of the Expression
- Discussion your own experience of it
- Critiquing your own experience
- Extracting key insights from the experience
- How the expression tied to design
- Assignment 2
- is now posted to Oncourse
- Write a critique of two vacuum cleaners.
- Point is to get to the experiential qualities of the two machines.
- For older vacuum cleaners, look at ads
- IMPORTANT
- Use theory to break the designs down
- (e.g. - McCarthy & Wright's Four Threads of Experience)
- Cite the Theories properly!!!!!!!!
- Do NOT misuse Wikipedia
- Do not CITE Wikipedia
- Instead, use it as a way to "ramp up" to a subject
- Do not Copy and Paste from Wikipedia
- Nuts & Bolts
- 1250 Words
- 12-point font
- Double-spaced
- Criticism
- Jeff got a paper into alt.chi
- Interaction Criticism
- Open Review Process
- Practitioners of "traditional" IT fields (Cognitive Science, etc.) did not understand, exactly, what criticism was
- Criticism will be the focus for February
- What is criticism? (Class thoughts)
- Finding faults/positives
- Comparing against a standard
- Opinions
- Reflection
- Judging something according to various criteria
- Criticism is an act of expert judgement
- What is judgment?
- Subjective form of knowing
- Analytical
- Well-thought, more than just an opinion
- Impression -> Opinion -> Judgment
- Because of its subjectivity, Social Sciences shy from judgment.
- Subjective form of knowing that is more than just an opinion
- Why should we choose subjective reasoning vs. objective reasoning?
- One reason is cost-based: subjective interpretation is cheaper
- Subjective reasoning is a different kind of thinking and leads to different kind of insights.
- Felt experience is ALWAYS subjective
- Doesn't mean that felt experience doesn't have objective basis.
- Buxton Reading
- The goal is the smile
- Criticism gives a causal line from the smile to objective reason for the smile
- "From this I want to emphasize that usability has nothing to do with their differences. It is the quality of experience that marks their difference. This brings us to the next point. I want to emphasize this difference did not come about by accident. It was the result of conscious design."
- "If it takes this much effort and detail to achieve this standard of quality with such relatively simple things as juicers, why would we expect to get smaller quality experience from our new-world information applicances without, likewise, adopting very explicit and deliberate process directed at doing so?"