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• Good morning. So I have posted the midterm marks so they're a little bit raw, preliminary still. but nobody fanned. But I'm going to do a bit of adjustment to them. But it gives you an idea, and we'll talk about the exam. And we'll talk about the final as well. So how's everyone doing today? Ready for the Easter long weekend? So it's especially Good Friday tomorrow. Okay, so let me start by sharing my screen. Okay? So I'm starting to add a new quiz here. and we can discuss the options. Let maybe let me look at the midterm first and preview mode. I think I can still do that. Okay, so this is what it looks like when the midterm is available. No, I'm still in my teacher view. So I'm doing a preview. So let me know this is different than what you saw. what you see when you do a quiz. Okay, so this is the screen that comes up. Does that person look familiar. anyway? I don't know how many years ago that was taken. It's not my first picture here, but because my card my card wore out, and I had. I got a new picture taken. so my card, the picture on my card I won't show you, but it's worn off again, so I'm not sure whether I should keep that one or get a new picture. Yes, so the picture my profile picture that I use everywhere it was taken by what's it called now? One area used to be the photography department, but it's part of information services now. anyway. So though I sat for a portrait head shot there for the web page that was back in 2,012. I'm not sure what this year which year this is from. anyway. So this is what you'd see, because you get the photo id. so you can see the. So when when with the zoom breakout room, you could see your picture. Now, there's some browser issues that didn't show everyone's picture there. anyway. Let me revisit the way. So there's some. So there are some comments about the navigation. Does anyone anyone see this? The bottom here? No, and that goes away? I thought that was always there. So who saw the navigation on the first page. Oh. right. Okay. So first question, who was able to use the navigation? Yes, Dane. Oh. do you have a comment? Or are you just saying you're able to use in navigation. I'm gonna do a quiz here, or a poll, or whatever they're called now. So would it? Okay? I should have asked that. So 70 30 for people who could use navigation. So stop sharing. So I can only have one full going at once. So here's one more question about that. Wow. So it's almost okay. Only 64 people. 64% have participated. 74. K, let's end it there. And I'll share the results. So there. quite evenly split. I'm wondering is the is the no response, because it's maybe easier to keep track, of which questions you've done. Hey? Anyway. Yeah. okay, so they're pluses and minuses trade-offs. So that's about. that's what design is about making trade-offs. because we don't necessarily have a clear answer. Yeah, so you are courses, is doing a lot of work, this semester, or is doing more work than it has in the past, maybe. And so it's just takes a bit longer to respond. So maybe I can put a description in the first page to give you a bit of a heads up. Okay? So I'm not sure if the interface is expressive enough to group certain things on a page if I do them randomly. So I'm everyone sees a different order of questions. So I'm not sure that I have the granularity to say these can be on the same page like the matching questions, or whatever multiple choice could be on the same page, and the longer written answer questions, each on their own page. But I'll look into that. Okay, so let me go back to the preview. And let's talk about the questions themselves. So these aren't in particular order. Okay? So compare a paper-based map and a smartphone map app, what are the main concepts and metaphors that are used for each is time conception. So I would say. the concepts and metaphors that we have a bird's eye view. Or maybe we have a drone flying over the train to be a more current example. And maybe the smartphone app is having a window on the train, maybe like having the a drone flying over it, and maybe the the map is more like having a balloon. Well, we have a static view of the. So we don't have maybe a satellite view because the bird is flying around like the drone. So maybe that's more like the smartphone app. How is time conceptualized each of them. So time on the paper map is based on the scale and the distances. How long it would take you to travel the highways. or how long it would take you to hike. depending on what kind of map you're looking at. But on a smartphone you can get an estimate of how you're gonna how long it's gonna take you with current traffic and so on. So it's it's very immediate. How do they differ? Well. we have access to real-time information on the smartphone app with traffic and or maybe not real time, but perhaps historical data about traffic and so forth. and the paper-based map we. If we have a current printing, we might have accurate information. But if it's an older map we might be missing some things. Some things have changed. Roads are maybe no longer there. Smaller roads are not there. or maybe roads that appears. Secondary. Roads have been upgraded to very comfortable roads. so the preferences might change. So there's lots of things have come from the paper-based map I made into the digital app. anyway. So so if you gave reasonable answers for all all the points. Then I gave you a good mark. But if you're missing something, then I'm so I gave full marks if I said, Okay. and I gave 8.5, and then, if it's incomplete. I gave 7. And then, if it was, there were some problems I gave a lower mark than that. anyway. So talking about the role of designer and their responsibilities. So it's there's designer isn't just there to do whatever the user tells them. They what the client wants them to do. So you can think of that story about the toaster and the garlic use, and so forth from the designer stats is an example of that. So design, thinking the Double Diamond and building creative confidence in clients. So does introduction of AI change any of this. So I was looking for. The idea is that the designer's role is more than just doing what the user once. but doing in terms of the double diamonds, the divergent thinking, to explore alternatives. to discover alternatives and then converge to a design and then diverge and converge again when you deliver the product. So maybe it's selecting alternatives to get feedback from users. So idea is to get users involved. but also not just. but but to curate and filter the those ideas so encourage engagement. But there's still an important role and responsibility for the designer to direct the project. And so that's also what I mentioned. But I hinted out with the video, I about the spaghetti sauce and happiness. So this in chapter 5, I asked you to look at. This is an example of maybe how we're Howard doing with Zoom. So today, especially, I feel like I'm giving a monologue. And then I'm mindful of not. I'm mindful that I have an audience. anyway. So are there some ways to. So we can think about some ways to to make class more interactive? I suppose that makes sense. But anyway. so I wanted to show you and my, the word interface here that I have switch to that for this first question, for the question about safety. No, that's not it. I'm looking for the window that I just opened Eleanor. Well, I guess. Let me try and just do the whole desktop. Can you see that. Okay. okay? So I I know about saving. So I want to save on my computer. Let's say. Oh, and I want to turn on auto saving. So that's what happens when I try and turn it on. This phone needs to be saved in the cloud first. Okay. how do I do that? Let's see file. save as okay. Where's the cloud? Could it be this so I don't know about having a onedrive account or sharepoint. so I don't know if I have an account, or what I'm not inclined to do that. so there's no direction here about how to save it to the cloud and how to navigate that. and there's no explanation of why I need to save it to the cloud to do an autosave. So some people pointed out that there should be an option to save on your local computer or a reason why they're pushing the Cloud Storage account. But at this point, if I don't have a cloud account a onedrive account. I don't want to set one up, then I can't use the autosave feature. so there's no indication of why I need to put it into the cloud to save the file automatically. So there were some comments about the history of revisions. So that's maybe a little bit different issue. Then auto saving. So the question about safety is, if you decide to go without save turning autosave on. and you forget to save it, and the power goes out and the computer dies, and the copy of your. the most important document ever is not saved with your latest revisions. So that's one thing, and then the other thing is, maybe it's easy to turn it off. So so maybe what wasn't clear is that I showed you the dialogue fact of me clicking auto save to turn it on. But I get this message instead. Does that make sense? So we talked about some opportunities there for redesign, like maybe having the option to auto save to your local jet desk and so forth. Okay, so this one empathy map to describe your experience of getting slept to write this exam in your courses in zoom breakout rooms. So I appreciate everyone who shared honestly about the stress that this whole thing caused. and I apologize very much for all of that. So part of it is. we're talking about system image to the designers model and the user's model and the relationship. So I had one definitely, I having one view of things. that everything was smooth, and I laid it out for everyone. But does it? I couldn't adequately communicate that to you I had to leave it. In the interface. The system image. as presented in the image is presented on screen. and the emails or messages I had sent to the discussion group beforehand. So I had. And so the issue with the exam not being ready on time not being a vet viewable on time was because I had joined as a host of a Zoom Meeting. and I realize I need to do something else. But I I didn't leave the Zoom Meeting, and I kept getting requests for help from individual people in their zoom breakout rooms. And that's so. That's so. That delayed me from completing what I need to do in the UR. Courses setup. So I ultimately left the zoom breakout room for a bit. fixed the issue in your courses, and then came back. So anyway. So I didn't explain why I had midterm A and midterm B groups. Was anyone concerned about that? Or can anyone express some concerns they add about about that. So the reason was because I can only do 50 breakout rooms in Zoom. So we had to have 2 separate Zoom Meetings to accommodate everyone. So that was the reason for having 2 groups, 2 separate Zoom Meetings. Does that make sense? Anyone have any questions about? Okay. yeah. So I did an example. An example of the midterm. So the gulf of execution arises because there's a gap between what the user wants to accomplish the goals that the user has. and finding out how to convert those into commands in the interface and the Gulf evaluation arises when there's an issue in interpreting the state of the system as displayed as presented. So there's maybe not feedback. and so on. So empathizing with the user and understanding. Their perspective is an important step in minimizing these golf's. So we understand what they want to accomplish. how they view the the tasks which metaphors might be appropriate and then design the interface to be consistent with those metaphors. Okay. so this question about the front camera, low visibility, clean screen. So it's good because it's showing an issue. But it's bad, because doesn't exactly see how to resolve the issue. So, as far as I know, there's no way to get an image from the front camera. I didn't know there was a front camera until I saw that message the first time. So I think the camera is behind. It's pointing out from the area behind the rearview mirror so it would be nice if I could get a there's a way to if this message came up. Once I'm pulled over and parked. Then I can get a an image from the camera that would help me understand what the problem is. because, with the rear camera in my vehicle. I can use a windshield washer in the in the rear to clean the back window, and it will also clean the camera. because the the way it's positioned. so I can do that easily. But with the windshield wipers the way they are I can't just. It seems to be in a spot that's not covered by the windshield wipers and the wind front windshield. And the car is big enough. It's that's I guess it's a was it called a crossover. It's a Ford edge. So. reaching the top of the the top of the top middle of the windshield is not an easy task. and I'm not sure that the Manual has that information. So the question isn't really about driving. Some people have said that they don't drive or they're. but it's really about the message. So there's an issue. And so this is a situation that requires interaction from the user, from the driver or from the person operating the person in the driver's seat. but the user who's sitting there and sees the message. They need to do something. since they're just dismissing it and could say how to locate the camera. And then. maybe, instead of having this pop up when when I'm driving. perhaps when I start the vehicle or and when I'm in park. There's a way that I could test. That the front camera is. is, has good visibility, is working properly. So if I dismiss this. I don't know if it's gonna if it if I dismissing it and it goes away. I don't know that I'm solving the problem, or whether I've just dismissed it. And it's not clear what the status of the system is. 10, does that make sense? Okay. hey? So I just realized, oh, I was, I'm showing the whole screen, aren't I? Okay? So here's the answers for the question. So execution at the visceral level. perform execution at behavior levels, specify execution at the reflective level plan. So the idea is we ref. So reflecting at the from the user. deciding what to do. make a plan, we have a goal in mind. So you make a plan. and then then we specify what needs to be done. And then we perform the steps that we've that we specified. and then an evaluation at the reflective level as we compare. So this is it. we're interpreting the state of the system. So at the highest level, we're comparing what we. But we've where we understand the interface state to be with the what we're to, what we expect evaluation, the visceral level. It's pretty shared. So the next step is so before comparing, we interpret. that's behavioral level. That's the middle step. an evaluation at the visceral level. As we we perceive. So the visceral level is closest to the system. So we're performing. And we're perceiving at the visceral level. at the behavior level, we're specifying and interpreting and at the reflective level which is closest to the user. Then we're planning and comparing. So then I threw in a couple extras, though that was so, understand is, maybe I realized too close it could fit into this. It's too close to the other answers. I realize. So this is part of the adjustment that I'll make so my apologies? So were the questions generally fair. So I'll put some of these questions into a a feedback activity. So it's exam. But the question. so I'm curious. Think the questions in general are okay. If there was enough information there to answer them, or there were just too many of them. That's not an or another issue is, if there were just too many of them to deal with. Okay. So I didn't realize it was a secret word limit. So so it it didn't. I just noted it. It didn't truncate anything. Hmm. hey? So I apologize again. So I'm going to try some things. So I'm going to create a quiz. So these are the options I have. So I can. These are the options I have to deal with. Exchange some attempts. so I will have that available. And we can work out some question formats so that we don't have the same issues as with the midterm. So was it a good thing to have another question I want to ask is, was it a good thing to have it? Be it open book. hey? So so the thing about openbook is, I noticed that some answers were word for word for paragraphs of the book. and for the most part they were acknowledged. So that's an issue that I I want to make clear is that we can. We don't. So I want to be clear that it's not. It's not sufficient just to copy content from the book without acknowledging it. for one thing. then also transforming it so that it's clearly you understand what's going on. So let's so we'll work on it being open book the same way where you have access to either the fifth or sixth edition of the Interaction Design Book by Rogers, sharp and priest. either hard copy or online and electronic form. So I'll so I'll see about the details of that. And we'll keep that conversation going. Is that a reasonable compromise for for a source or the open book of the text of that main textbook? Okay. so I will look into that. So in terms of the syllabus. So the syllabus is a syllabus. so it the final exam will be comprehensive. So there would be some focus on what we did before the midterm. Most of it will be. and the maybe one third before the midterm. 2 thirds after the midterm. But in some ways it's it's hard to separate because we've we've revisited concepts from time to time over the course of this semester split. We'll look at the whole semester and boom focus on things that are referenced in the textbook. Yes. So we're going to use Proctor track for the final. So please everyone do the onboarding quiz so that you're set up for this class. That's also part of the last assignment. Any questions about the last assignment? It's not available on the website. What? I was sure it would whoops wrong class. You see this zoom versus proctor track on my screen. Let me see if it's going to the right spot for it. Oh. no, it's not. I have to fix that link. Sorry. you know. Fix that right away. Okay. okay. So now it's that Link is working. So I I've cleared that up. I hope so. If you refresh it, your you are courses now. You should be able to see it. so I think a good source of exam. Final exam questions would be. and some reflection and analysis about where the midterm went wrong. So I'm I want to find the balance. I mean what I say when I say it. I want the exams to be a fair assessment of our learning, this semester of your learning, this semester. So I encourage you to engage with me in the conversation about what that would mean for you. Anyway, we're out of time for today. so I hope this was helpful. I'll deal with adjustments to Marks and have a good Easter long weekend. See you on Tuesday. We're in April. Then 4 more meetings after this. Thanks! Again! Take care! Everyone.
• Take care, have a great weekend.
• Thanks you too.

Zoom Chat Transcript

• good morning
• Good morning
• good morning
• morning daryl
• Morning
• sleepy
• Yes and no... lots to do
• morning
• Very familiar
• you have a different picture for your profile as well!
• yes
• yes
• the navigation part can be pulled out from the right
• I did
• I was able to use it
• yeah the separate pages is easier to see which questions ive done
• if all questions are on the same page, you may accidentally scroll past one question and don't give it an answer. when they are on separate pages, you can look at navigation and see if all are filled out or not
• I think on one hand it's nice to easily see the questions so that you can decide which ones to answer and plan out your exam, but I also think it's possible to lose track of the questions more easily if they're all on the same page.
• the questions take awhile to load on my computer when they're all on diff pages, thats my only gripe
• I said "not sure", because from my experience sometimes it is better to have questions on separate pages and other times it's better to have them on the same page. Depends on the type of questions and the way they are displayed by the system.
• Written questions should be on their own page, matching and multiple choice can be on the same page imo
• Reacted to "Written questions sh..." with 👍
• Is the final open book or close book?
• yes, it makes sense
• what will be the Final exam syllabus?
• We didn't talk about that one matching question, could you explain the answers for that one? I know I wasn't the only one bamboozled by that question.
• ^^ I also did not understand the matching question.
• Reacted to "We didn't talk about..." with 👆
• yes please, I remember I had difficulty finding answers for that question as well during the exam.
• Reacted to "We didn't talk about..." with 👆
• I personally found this question to be too vague to answer properly. I understand your explanation right now, but I think other words could be argued correct as well. There was too much room for interpretation for a matching question maybe
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• yeah the matching question felt too subjective, there was a lot of second guessing and having extra answers in the word bank didn't help😅
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• The questions in general were okay, but required a lot of typing to provide a thorough answer.
• My biggest gripe was that there was a secret word limit that wasn't communicated to me until after I had written my answers, and also no live word count, so I had to try to estimate how many words to shave off. That wasted a lot of my time during the exam.
• It kept telling me my answers were too long lol
• It saved my life lol
• Yes!
• yes
• yes open book was nice
• yes
• yes
• I think it needs to open book
• absolutely
• Replying to "I think it needs to ..."
• Yes
• Open book and proctortracked?
• It's not available on the website yet so I can't preview what the assignment is about.
• on my todo list - go buy a webcam
• Materialize is the last assignment we can see right now I believe
• Replying to "It's not available o..."
• Replying to "It's not available o..."
• I can see the Zoom v ProctorTrack assignment
• It doesn’t go to the right spot but if you scroll all the way down we can see it now
• Have a great day!
• thank you! have a good weekend
• thank you have a good weekend!
• Bye! Have a great weekend
• Thank you, have a good long weekend!
• Thanks Daryl. Have a good long weekend
• Would there be any issues having a pdf of the text book open while being proctored ?
• Thank you
• thank you
• Thank you! Have a nice weekend!
• Have a great Easter weekend!
• Replying to "Would there be any i…"

Responses

What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?

• Today we went over the midterm and potential improvements that can be made for the final exam.
• Interesting discussion
• Zoom vs. Proctor track
• midterm
• Learned about the final structure
• The discussion regarding the final exam.
• Today, I encountered the importance of aligning digital product organization with users' mental models through card sorting, emphasizing the significance of understanding user behavior for effective information architecture design.
• The midterm review
• Discussion about the midterm and some discussion on the final
• Today we covered what questions were on the midterm
• talked about midterm grading, finals
• Today we went over the midterm and discussed answers and concerns any students had. Daryl also provided information about the final exam.
• Nothing
• Today we went over the midterm results and questions so that we could see where and why we might have lost marks.
• We have discussed about midterm questions and recommendations for coming final
• The midterm review was nice to go through
• In todays lecture we discussed about midterms and did a review on that, professor also mentioned a quiz for the midterm to tell about the experience of midterm.
• In today's class, we discussed about midterm questions. It was good to know what professor was expecting from students for the answer, so that we know what kinds of answers to write on final.
• Review of midterm
• Concept of why coffee is the great separator of men
• We discussed in detail the midterm questions and the grading of those questions. In addition to that, we also discussed some information regarding the final exam.
• midterm questions/answers and formatting, some final info, open bookness
• Issues with the midterm exam, places where students had certain issues or requirements not met
• An important concept that I encountered today is that a metaphor for a map is like having a bird eye view of the area.
• Today we learned that our grades are out.
• Nothing just discussed few class concepts
• In today's lecture we mostly did the midterm review session and doubt solving for the finals and other course related topics.
• Discussion about the midterm and quesitons/concerns about marking
• About the Final exam
• Social Interaction
• How we were meant to interpret the mid semester exam questions
• We reviewed the midterm exam questions.
• Usability - users didn’t noticed extra value points
• Professor explained the midterm question and answer and discussed the final exam.
• learn about exam question
• today we discussed about the midterm marks and all
• discussed about proctortrack and onboarding quiz
• It was nice to go through the midterm exam and seeing Dr. Hepting's perspective on the answers.

Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?

• Nothing comes to mind.
• None
• Everything was easy to understand.
• no
• No
• No
• I am a bit confused on the materilize assignment still and how that is going to work with the testing
• Very ambiguous why I got partial marks on the questions, and what the partial marks were for or what I was missing
• not at all
• No
• Still not really clear on the logic behind the matching question on the midterm.
• No, everything was straight forward to understand
• No there was nothing difficult to understand
• No I didn’t find anything difficult today to understand.
• Yes
• How the groups will work for the next assignment
• Nothing today
• no
• It was difficult to understand how to midterm would be reassessed, where the content for the matching question came from, and how to get better feedback than the one word comments.
• No.
• The comments when our midterm answers were graded.
• I am not having any difficulty
• No, nothing as such for today's lecture was very simple. Just the next project part, have a few doubts as I was going through it will ask in office hours.
• No
• No
• None
• Nothing
• There were no difficulties.
• No
• no
• no
• not much ... overall it was ok
• Nothings is difficult as usual
• no

Was there anything today about which you would like to know more?

• If the answer can be found in the textbook, are we required to paraphrase it using our own words for the final questions?
• Final exam
• The final exam
• no
• No
• No
• How exactly the grading was done as the comments are lackluster
• I want to know more about the materilize assignment and also some final review with what will be on it
• I would like to know more about the final exam coming up
• nope. everything was upto the point
• No
• Yes, I want to know more about the format and concept covered in the final
• I would like to know more about the final exam
• No all the information was sufficient for todays class.
• since final exam would be on proctortrack, will it be open book or not? and bit more on what kinds of questions are we expecting on finals
• How to better prep for the final
• Do people like winter or just say they like winter
• you went over it in class but the matching question is still too subjective to me, there was lots of second guessing and i felt like some could have multiple answers especially given that the word bank had extra answers
• No.
• What exactly we did wrong in the midterm to make sure not to repeat the same mistakes.
• Please talk about final
• Just going to get prepared for the final exam and have a few doubts about syllabus for the same.
• No
• No
• More about Social Interactions
• Will our mid term grades be increased?
• I would like to get more comments on my midterm answers.
• No
• no
• no
• no, not for now
• will give proctortrac quiz to get understanding
• Would like to know more about Proctortrack and the information they collect and what they do with it. Looks crazy what the application has access to and hearing in the past they had a data breach doesn't make me feel any more confident in their data management.

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