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Good morning, everyone. How are you doing today? Do you have a good Easter weekend? I had a nice weekend. Thanks for asking. I'm glad the snow is melting again. So I apologize for the problems with my website over the weekend. So I realized. this is a technical explanation. But I had. So I can run my website on my laptop to to check it out to make sure it looks. It looks the way I want it to look before I publish it to the web. But I had the the preview software running. So every change it detects it remakes the website. And so I think when I post it to the web it had changed a few files to be local host, which is what other my laptop. So I and then I made sure I quit that. And then I remade the website and published it. And I think that solved the issue. So if you looked at the website again from Sunday evening he should have been able to see it correctly. But I sent a note with the date of April yesterday, April first at noon. So did anyone do any practical jokes before noon yesterday for April Fools' Day. So does Eminem still still record. I haven't. Oh, he pranked. Okay. okay. I know who Eminem is. anyway, I'm not that old even know why April Fools Day has that name. April first is known as April Fools Day. Anyone? Well, my understanding is that the New Year used to be on April the the new calendar year began on April first at 1 point. and then when it's switched to people who still marked at on April first were set out to be foolish, I guess. anyway. so did everyone get a message from me just a few minutes ago on your courses. Do you get an email? Okay, that's good. And a couple of people did, anyway. So if you so I just want to show you what I've done on your courses here to facilitate the last bit of the project. So I've made you okay. This is shared now, right? So I've made 9 groups. Happily, there were 18 groups. So it's that made it easy to make pairs. So I made 9 groups. So there's an item here prepared groups for testing group membership. And so for me, I've added my own group. I didn't test that. I've gotten everybody. So let me. Let me test this by adding a an assignment that requires a group. hey? So I'm going to. Maybe I better have a due date in case that complains later. I noticed that if you don't have enable on the if you don't enable the dates, the calendar doesn't work. So if can you see that. So the calendar isn't disabled. It doesn't work, but here it does. because I have enabled that date so a little frustration there. anyway. So I've got it set up. I don't want to bother with those things. Submit in groups. Yes. require a group to make a submission. Yes. require also. No, don't want to do that student grouping, grouping for student groups. testing paired groups. So it doesn't show any problems here. So I guess I've I did correctly. Okay, so I can delete that. Now people see. The other thing I don't like about navigation here is that there's no way to go just to the section I have to go back to the top. although it consistently remembers things like this goes. So it did go back to assignments. So I just want to delete this assignment. Okay. so would you like to see how I did the I made the testing pair groups. So I went back to so participants. So I started out by making. So I made this grouping, testing paired groups. But then I didn't. But then I realized I couldn't make a grouping with groupings in it. So it had to be grouped. So what I did was. and I created these other groupings. and I call them Test Tp for testing pair one through 9. And then I did auto create groups. So I have to go back to groupings. Our pardon me, groups and I did auto create. And I said number left number of groups. So I made that one. So just to show you what happens here. I turned on group messaging. and then I said, select hours from grouping. And then let's say, Tpu, testing pair one allocate members randomly doesn't matter. The thing is here I need to do is it's hidden. But this is important because it's not going to work like this default settings because you have to specify a grouping name. But I want them to be in testing paired groups. So just preview it because we've already created these groups. So here we have a group with 8 people in it. So 2 groups of 4 together. So that process worked any critiques or comments about how I could do that better. So what are some advantages and disadvantages. any ideas about that. Yeah. So it's a lot of navigation. So the I guess maybe the advantage is. So let's cancel this. So I don't create another group here to muddy, the waters so under groupings. So I guess an advantage is then I can say, well, here are the pairs that I made. So each of these are project groups before, and there's one group of 3, so I can preserve that information. So if I wanted to make groups of 4, I could do that. but there's no hierarchy of group grouping, so I can't. I can't easily use this to regenerate groups. If I needed to make a change. I'd have to go through and pick the pick, the the pair that I wanted, or the group that I wanted to combine. the groups that I wanted wanting to edit them. so I don't know. It would maybe be. Maybe it would be nice to have a what's the word? Have an auto? Well. have an automated naming convention so that I could say. or I guess if I could have a wild card to match things like if create one group from each of these groupings that might be better or recreate them. and if I could have support for hierarchies of groupings that might also be good that way, I could. instead of instead of having to go through manually to pick each grouping to generate the group. I could just say. generate groups in this grouping from these groupings. And maybe we need better language to talk about groups set of groups and groupings. anyway. Does that make sense anyone who's still with me, with the. with a demonstration of creating these testing paired groups so and other disadvantages that I've created the groups. But there's no indication of who's from which group anymore. Well, I can only see my group here. but in your group you have. You're listed as Group One through 9. You're listed as one group from one through 9. So you don't know who's from which group. By this point you may know your group members. I hope a little bit. But so we we lose some information and combining groups this way, and it'd be nice to maybe have them available in a more. Have have them with more information. So I want to share something for CS. 4, 28 students. So I don't know how many of you are registered for those spring and summer classes. but we've noticed that there are 25 students registered in this July, August 4, 90 DG. But only 5 registered in the 4 90 A. P. Which is in May and June. So I just want to encourage any students who are interested in Hci in designing building interfaces to take the 4 90 A. P. The one in in May and June. getting experience building interface in May and June be a good tie into evaluating the interface in July, August 4, 90. DG. Any thoughts about that. 4, 8, 4, 28 students. anyone taking? Dg. but not yet sure about Ap. No, I wasn't sharing anything. I was just reading an email message. So the spring summer one is about implementation. And this summer one is, pardon me, the spring one in Maine, June is about implementation, and the summer one is about evaluation. anyone. and DG. Now reconsidering. and not yet an ap. considering adding A. P. Well, I invite you to encourage and consider it all put something in the class discussion as well. Okay. So the quiz quiz question was about the video. So how many people were able to watch the video. So new thing I've noticed about Youtube, this didn't happen to me or but it's happened to me a couple times just recently is that Youtube inserts ads, not just at the beginning. the part way through the the video as well. And it's not clear whether they're stopping the video or not. it would seem that they would be stopping it. But it's not quite apparent. And I guess that's maybe a setting in Youtube. Now that you can monetize the videos? Or is that a. I don't know anyone do a Youtube have have experienced doing videos on Youtube. Yeah. So it's not so the facade of this grade free services starting to crack and peel a little bit, I think. Hmm! Well. I may have. I don't recall it happening to me until this week or last week. Perhaps. So. anyway. just an observation. So that video isn't new. But let's take a look at what there is for a new Zipcar website current line. So it looks like I might be in the Us. Would you like to update your location? I feel happy about that. I don't feel happy that it's I can't click on the dialog box. Let's first look at the cookies. We use cookies. so manage cookie settings. targeting cookies. No. so usually they have a few different categories there I can some of our functional cookies and performance cookies as well. So I've turned off what I can. So let's confirm my choices. Okay, so I've got the Canadian website. And it still shows me Boston. That's interesting. We'll meet some of our cars. That's let's see if we can find Mini must swell. I don't feel like I went where I thought I was going. Let's go back. Let's try that again. Search for a car. Okay? So I seem to. by not allowing the tracking cookies. I've seemed to have broken the website. Let's see if that helped at all. you know, I'm still in Boston. Let's try and search for a different city type in the address of the University. Oh, there it is! Let's make it a bit later. Actually, let's make it Friday. There was an option there, but I've clicked on it several times. and it didn't help. Okay, let's pick a place in Toronto. Oh, what's it? I don't know if this is really an address. Have a Nissan Centra named Shredder and a Nissan rogue named Mark. So for an hour with a car, it cost me 1582. And let's see what else it was. So there's an option for university students. Oh, also faculty. Okay? So I noticed, anyway, the question from the video was about the car's name. The Austin Mini, named Muswell. who has a fully stocked fridge and loves it to entertain anyway. So it seems like even that video is old. He's still stuck. The the website hasn't changed that much since the test. And the video. So I thought, maybe we'll we'll see how well we can do with our paired groups for testing. Let's I'll make 9 breakout rooms. So then you enter the enter the room. correspond to your group number in the paired testing groups. Okay. I'll put that in the chat as well. So let me go back to your courses here so you can see where. Oh, that's not it. that's it. Okay. So if you find this link on your own, your courses, page. Then you'll see which group number you're in. So I will check on so possible make an initial contact to arrange your testing meeting. Okay, so I'll do the breakout rooms. Now. does that make sense any questions about it before I so open the breakout rooms? Okay? So the breakout rooms are open now. so please join the one that corresponds to your paired group for testing.
Zoom Chat Transcript
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Morning
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happy tuesday
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Good morning!
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good morning
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was a good easter how was yours
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ya the snow melting is really great the temp is great
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Good morning
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Good morning!
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Good morning!
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Any April Fool’s Day jokes or pranks?
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Why is April Fool’s Day called that?
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that Eminem was dropping an album
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he pranked
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yes
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ya
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feels like it involves lots of navigation
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We are still seeing Paired groups for testing page, are you showing something else?
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What's the difference between ap and dg
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Ahh okay!
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weird website (zipcar)
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they also now play 2 ads at once instead of 1 which is pretty annoying
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I believe ads in the middle have been around for a long time. Videos pause while ads play
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on YouTube's TV app, they now sometimes play 5 unskippable ads in a row
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I wish there was ad block for the TV app.
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Replying to "on YouTube's TV app,..."
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There was an option to choose Canada on the bottom right side of the previous page
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Ah ok
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They name the cars? LOL
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shredder sounds too threatening of a name for what it is
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Reacted to "shredder sounds too ..." with 😂
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Replying to "shredder sounds too ..."
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I’ll make 9 breakout rooms today and choose the room that corresponds to your paired group for testing. I will check on each group — if possible make an initial contact to arrange your testing meeting (2 on 2 for almost everyone, there will be one 2 on 1)
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Any questions?
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Please join your assigned breakout room — if you have a question, please type it in :-)
Responses
What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?
- Learned a bit more about group creation process by watching Dr. Hepting make paired groups for testing. Also that ZipCar service is still alive, but be careful if you decline cookies, your location may not be correct after that.
- Great discussion. Its interesting how small design differences have much effect on the usability.
- Paired groups for testing
- Today I learnt , the significance of usability testing in web design, revealing how it serves as a crucial tool for uncovering user experience issues that might not be evident to developers or designers. This process highlights the importance of viewing a website through the eyes of its users, ensuring that it not only meets design expectations but is also intuitive and accessible to those it aims to serve.
- Groups for the next assignment and discussion on how the testing will go
- Today I learned about the assignment we will be working on this week, where we will be testing interface prototypes from other groups.
- More in depth description on materialize assignment
- Talked about the testing and debugging techniques for the groups and assignment groupings
- I learned a good amount about how the next group project will be completed, which was very helpful as it involves multi-group interaction.
- Productive breakout room!
- no
- Today was mostly focused on discussing the upcoming final part of the project and groups.
- We have discussed about the Zipcar website and Materialize assignment
- testing and debuggin for group settings was what was spoken and demonstrated to us
- We discussed about the materialize project and discussed about the website on the video we saw
- In today's class we had a discussion about Materialize assignment. As professor mentioned all the groups were divided into groupings and this assignment should be completed in that groupings, and each grouping consist of two groups. And then we had a discussion about the assignment in breakout rooms.
- The Zipcar website was quite unique. Also the process of forming groups through grouping was interesting
- We discussed about Zipcar. We also had a chat for upcoming project "Materlize", which includes collaborating with other groups.
- The guidance technique in usability tests
- How much thought must go into design philosophy to make a product that not only works but generates satisfaction
- testing website ui/ux, script for that, project groups
- An important concept was seeing how testing Zipcar is similar to how we need to test our lofi prototypes
- Group pairing on URCourses, usability/design, zipcar's updated site
- An important concept I encountered today is that there are functional cookies, which allow for certain features to run or improve site behaviours, and performance cookies, which collect anonymous data on the user's actions.
- Today we learned about MINI MUSWELL
- how user based thinking affects UI
- In today's lecture we discussed about paired groups for testing membership, about the video of the previous quiz of zipcar, and then lastly had breakout rooms for doubts and questions which really helps a lot for further clarification.
- Finding and Fixing Usability Problems - Zipcar website, UR courses - assignment/group discussion
- Design Metaphor, and Guss
- Usability
- How to merge groupings
- We looked at how to create paired groups in the UR Courses, and then we looked at the Zipcar website from our quiz. Lastly, we went to breakout rooms to discuss paired group testing.
- Today, we discussed Mini Muswell, explored the Zipcar website, and had a discussion with the testing group for the project in the breakout room.
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- We discussed about final exams and next assignment atthe breakout rooms at the end
- Explored website , zipcar , discussion about group testing
Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?
- How the other group would actually test our low fidelity prototypes, which are not actually prototypes, but drawings.
- None
- Everything was well explained
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- No i had confusion on the assignment but it wa cleared up today
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- The seperation of groups
- Not at all.
- The most difficult part to understand is how we are going to test the other group on our interface and time them to see how long it takes. While I think it's a great assignment idea and is really interesting for making the class more interactive and fruitful, it is a bit of a confusing process.
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- No, everything was easy to understand
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- No there was nothing difficult to understand
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- No I didn't found anything difficult to understand in todays class.
- Nope
- Why we were randomly assigned groups, i thought we got to pick
- Nothing today
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- No there was nothing difficult to understand.
- I do not understand why there needs to be 2 people for the testing process. Why cant the person testing write down the things that confuses them instead
- No.
- no
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- Not really, today's lecture was really sorted and easy enough to understand all the concepts.
- No
- No
- None
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- There were no difficulties.
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- no
- No
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Was there anything today about which you would like to know more?
- In what format the Materialize assignment should be. What counts as quantitative and qualitative feedback.
- About assignment groups and the materialize assignment.
- The final exam
- No
- More on the final and what will be on it and how i will work
- I would like to know what the other group I will be working with thinks about the prototype I will present to them
- Who to work with on final part of project
- Maybe some reading would help understand and comprehend more
- A little more on the assignment would be nice, but the guidance that was provided today was much better than that of what I had understood just from reading.
- no
- What do we do if we have difficulty getting the other group in our final project to engage?
- No, there wasn't anything
- I would like to know more about the final exam and the last assignment
- More details about the project would be nice and final exams
- No all the concepts were clear in the class.
- I wanted to know more about last part of project
- Nope
- how to best prepare for the final
- How long do companies test ideas until something sticks in design?
- no
- No.
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- no. mostly everything was clear and easy to understand
- Yes, about the testing membership, and if the zipcar video concept would be coming for finals or not.
- No
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- More about usability
- An easier way to merge groupings
- I have no questions about the lecture contents. However, I would like to know more about the collected data during the testing stage of the Materialize assignment. Do we have to record during testing, or taking notes are enough?
- no
- we discuss about the progress of materialize project and will discuss more about testing and script after that
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- will exlore more about usability testing