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So Happy Friday everyone feel like Friday today
it's a little cooler today I noticed this time of day Okay,
so we're gonna see whether this extensive we tested the server
testing test how's that so made a difference a little bit I can
even hear okay. Is not working no input okay so this is based
on our discussion last sales you have something to share so,
based on our discussion last day with adding a midterm exam
so I had So, as the midterm and of course 8% as I
do so that means we have six So, let's create first of all is
9100. And then there's also a bonus of 2% for research credit.
Has anyone heard about the participant pool idea before?
They've been psychology and
computer science so the idea is if there's an opportunity for my
district that down the track it's all on your courses where
it's more legible so responses to meetings 6% in dimensional
assignments 20% project has been 40% exams 28% So they present
for the midterm 20% For the final participation 6% bonus. So
it's not certain whether there will be opportunities to earn a
bonus mark on the research credit during the semester.
There is I'll post them and let you know about posting post them
here at the bottom. So for every if he participated in a study,
you'll get one mark that you can apply to whichever class
accepts. So you can in one class you can get up to to these bonus
marks. So there's software user study going on for example,
that's credit so so 1% isn't a lot, but it's enough to say
thank you. So it's not enough to say I'm going to do that. versus
sort of an ethical aspect of collecting data that we'll talk
about later on in the semester as well. But it's enough to say
thank you. It's a token of appreciation, but it's not so
much to say for you to decide, well, I don't really want to do
this, but I can't afford to miss this opportunity for Mark. So I
said research credit was gonna give you an extra 50% of the
mark. You might not. You might not feel that way. So free and
informed consent is an important part of what it has to do with
collecting data. So we don't want to collect good data. We
want to make sure that we're not putting added pressure on the
person who is giving us the latest they might just tell us
what we want. What they think they want, what they think we
want to hear Okay, so that's the reason behind the research
credit. So just seem okay. We didn't have to stop official
syllabus you have seen Okay, I need this in the issues. Yeah.
How many assignments? Okay, so there's Do you like the pictures
I sent or posted last time of me and my
to do it my do it. Myself microphone. I think I put them
online. So So for individual assignments there will be rest
20%. To assignments and how's my writing at the back of the room
could be bigger or
helps you focus by concentrating on my I'll try and make it
bigger so one of these will be. So divide the project into four
pieces so you're welcome to especially for for 28 students
to make your own groups.
And I won't say no if you want to work if you want to have a
group that's mixing for 28 and a 28 students
so if you're an 828 and you have some of your research, relates
can relate or you can include user interface design and
evaluation in your research. You might want to do that
individually
Does that make sense? So you can talk to me about that if you
like? Okay, does that make sense? Does that answer your
question? So, Monday we'll have the details and assignments
posted for you okay. Okay, so let me do attendance. Okay.
Always has been down onboarding. Usually these names on it.
Yeah, okay. I remember getting some email about that. Right.
Okay. I was fixing some things and i i fixed some things and I
broke some other things. So I fixed the display here so that
meetings are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, so we didn't have a
meeting this last Monday. We don't have the meeting coming
Monday because that's Labor Day. We don't have a meeting on this
Friday because that's Truth and Reconciliation day. And then
here's Thanksgiving. The meeting is. Okay, so the thing I was
going to print out were these 10 cards, which I used to do when
we had in person meetings before so I thought I would try them
again because we're all here together. So I'm gonna get those
working for a minute. It's a way for you to write down your name
and put it on the desk. So that I can know how to call you in
class. So I can call in you. Sort of Alaskey if you write
down the name you'd like me to call you. It's whatever that
might be. And then I also suggested that we're going to
have a lot rupestre classwork discussions
so I wonder whether we can maybe do crease in each row across Can
we can we pick a table or? Anywhere else see how it works.
But if we have eight people in a group that's maybe a bid size up
to eight people.
So don't always have don't have to end up with the same spot so
everyone comes on here and all the people are in one side of
the room so you can mix it up. A little bit. See what works for
you. So it'll ask you to maybe report to me in an email or
something, people who are in your group and we'll keep those
for just semester going forward. Okay, so that makes sense. So,
in the same row that you're in get together with the people in
your row for some discussion. Okay, and then somebody sent me
the names of people who are in the group in your row and I'll
set them up as groups going forward for it good class
activities. Okay, so please go ahead and do that thank you it a
look right was able to do this there's no way
I can say just like going Did you want us to stay as a group
registrate the name to status. So, got a couple questions we
just want to basically send these to you. week it was very
hard on myself but you know I knew what it was like there's no
other reason. Interested in you can see this little boy or girl
your client I can't see it in the course of the show. order
for him to truly start thing over again for
your seats only, so.
Okay, so as I watched all of you were discussing and that's been
very good. I realized that maybe it's easier for getting together
for discussions and groups can be groups of eight people. So I
know when I'm messed up, what people have already done for the
lists that may be a feature you can adjust your seating and so
based on what what I get through, people see some people
give me some handwritten notes and some people send me emails.
I'll set them up. I'll make sure everybody's in a group that's
about the same size and then even your hands to facilitate
that in the future, okay.
Okay, so I have two questions for you to discuss. So we can
have a discussion for five to 10 minutes
so, two questions are what makes an interface good or bad? What
do you see are those important characteristics? And then what
are some examples of good and bad interfaces? So this website
is the best interface ever or this interface this website is
the worst interface ever. I don't have to be your best or
worst ever. Examples but if you have if you have some a he has
some things that are frustrating very satisfying to us. Let me
know. discuss those things as well. Okay, so can we get
together and have discussions so?
To be here out. Your time to get up could just be Oh yes yes what
is your next session I already have that face to face oh yeah
are many years later on as marketers used to be able to
call it whatever it is say okay yeah, yeah, it seems like I can
make this demo I go over my four bills that's what I expected
that's all jumping up at your house at this moment where are
you going? To take that there is no better way refer on strong.
People I would like you, oh, I didn't get backed up on privacy
because sometimes especially when I was in the G O th Oh
yeah. If I can add to that. What was the last few years so many
of you we're going to find out how to get them Oh, what do you
guys think about need to charge me even my seminars pretty much.
Yeah, video. I would like you to see exactly where
there's one of them that goes back to direct versus being
positive in the same time, it was by us being
there I don't say I'm selling in fact. I guess I know that. No,
one that people say it's not good. It's either.
I give you like false information or direction but it
shows you where
to go that that was that was that was like really good for
the class, everyone. I have your attention please. Let everyone
know. Microphones still working. But anyway, so before we ended
up class today, no five minutes left. So any thoughts about what
makes an interface good or bad and what are some examples of
the design without first? Accessibility
the liability really easy to use,
okay. Response okay okay okay, other groups, other discussions
all of everything available
easy to navigate courses so I put down comprehensible for the
comment about Armageddon getting mistaken or you doing the wrong
thing Okay any examples of good or bad interfaces? Yeah so we
have no matter what I was gonna do okay some other ones Yeah.
That are self service. We will take about
example. Other maps
yeah
sorry question and I think I have this and yeah, there's in
the back. Yeah. Do but, again, whichever one you'd like, okay.
I can mentions rats and life as a horse. So the horse boasting
UX and UI
so that's the bus schedule for
that horrible vacation. Everything is so good. Okay,
discords pretty good. too.
Yeah. Okay. So what I like to do is if you can add some of your
discussion onto the wiki for today. And so one person however
you gonna do? So how many people are familiar with the way kids
classes so it's a weird kind of HTML waking syntax. So
you know, based upon your dreams,
okay, so we're out of time for today. So I want to say thank
you very much for today and for your participation, your buying
with the assignment, shuffling. So if you have a chance, please
have a look at chapter one in the book. And we'll start from
there on Monday. Thank you again, have a great
day Yeah, I think so. Yeah you could make up a story
versus gonna make one yes. All right. So it's not really it's a
class but I was wondering because what you think about
that need to tell you how to like You're like I bought like a
okay isn't
there but it's an old one. Okay. Doesn't have to. Okay, I think
I'll get back. Yeah, I like five megabytes which is solid state
Yeah, I just worried that it wouldn't be able to buy doing
pretty good.
Yeah, you have Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think it was pretty
well. We took him so I have a pic of 2006 This is like I
probably start up there like a year ago. Okay, so there are too
many things. To keep thinking of losing balance sometimes. Yeah.
Awesome. Thank you so much, anyway, yeah, yeah, I don't know
why.
I would recommend that. Okay, awesome. Thank you. Yeah.
I'm gonna take pictures too. So I'll post them on our Web today.
Class last week's class. I don't go to a course and teacher
person. Doesn't want to do it today. Yeah, I do it today. But
less. Yeah. So I'll
go Yeah, it's gonna give me a stressful thing. Where do you
want us to
we just did just email. us your email.
Vicky's that response we do? Know it's yeah. Actually. I
can't find this and
Excuse me. Can you it is possible to make 2428 and 848
students together or it should be a separate. It can be
together it can be to
represent a highlight of Halloween coming up. This year?
Yeah. My wife and I were just I'm so tempted to
think I'm gonna lose my federal probation. And me a good Yeah, I
was awful.
Not to mention yours for misconduct.
I have used the textbook me before you say
I don't like it he wasn't ready for doctors. Just pagers,
pagers. Basically Come on. No, no, never been to Sydney, all
the other students I got elected to that did not mean that
something is yeah, we do not. Know I actually I actually were
the worst response
I think I put it in there on LinkedIn. I put it under the
participation. So this is different than the response we
do every meeting, right? Yeah. And then did we have to do that
for the first meeting? as well? Because we all have to this is
strong. You can you can do it for every meeting. Okay. And if
you do it for most of them and you fall in structure, they will
get six marks towards your final or by I couldn't do the first
one I've just forgot. So it's all right. So you can do it for
this one, right? Yeah. If you do 30 or more then you'll get full
marks. Okay. Sounds good. That's all good. Thanks.
A grenade student. I'm not a big so student. So can I do my
project individually?
I would prefer not. Okay. So do you know people? Oh, yeah. So
see how it goes. I would prefer to be free to be a group project
if it's not something you're doing for research. Okay.
And is there any limit on the group number?
Ideally, for let's say, if we have to make some adjustments on
that we can
do we need to do coding in that basis. Like for the 800 levels?
I'm the same one like I'm not research student and the course
for the 800 level. So just wanted to ask about the project.
So the project is more about design. So you need to implement
that, right? You don't have it's not about implementing, it's
about creating a mock up. So it's not strictly coding an
interface but it's making it look like okay, you have a
functioning interface. So there are different tools and you can
write make a web might do with using web stuff. We'll talk
about some more detail or the semester but it's not strictly
reading, reading in your face from scratch, it's just about
making it look it's creating the illusion of of the interface
that you're presenting. Okay, thanks. Thank you.
So for the classes question I just posted here
Yeah, sure. And also I have
a question about so the response to meetings. It's like a general
market. It's not per
one. Oh, he get marks. So I described. If you follow the
instructions so you're reading about today's meeting and you're
following instructions like picking one of those three types
and you submit it so you'll get two marks if it's if it's all
good. One mark, Have you submitted but it's not clearly
following instructions. Like it's not as he's described what
we did in class instead of what your reaction to it is. Or you
know, saying what we learned what we discussed. So say well,
we covered this well, you know that that's not what I'm asking
you to include. I want you to reflect a little bit. So anyway,
if you if you write something but it doesn't follow
instructions, you get one mark and if you don't consume
anything, you get zero marks. So over the semester, we'll collect
those and then that'll turn into here. So I will make it I won't
require everyone to have 36 or 35 of them to get a full mark
but maybe 30 I guess now that I've said 30 I'm gonna have to
stick with that. So you have a little bit of wiggle room. Thank
you. Make sense.
So the one chord per day it's set for 2021 that dates for I
thought I fixed. I did.
Okay, so maybe I checked it earlier. Yeah. You will like us.
To read chapter 1234. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's a thank you
so much. You're welcome. Hello. Actually, I have a question
about the, what we can interface good or bad. She talks about,
for example, the design patterns or something like that, or
you're just one abstract because I can't say for example, how how
much we should deep into to this comparative to this comparison.
That's my question. Because when we want to compare something
good and that should be talking about the design patterns or
like something like I don't want to say no to that. But I just,
I'm just trying to engage some discussion. Okay. So so so
there's no wrong answer. If you want to talk about patterns,
like the Swiss Army Knife pattern or whatever, whatever it
is.
Yeah, okay. So yeah, yeah. Because I want to know what your
expectation and how how should compare compare for example,
because you know, interface some teams subjective evaluation is
subjective and I want to know that, okay, how how, how we
should go for this. Yeah. So okay.
So I would say, it's not always subjective. I mean, there there
are some issues about preference involved, but I think there are
also some very empirically verified choice choices that are
good and that are bad. So it's not it's not all subjective.
Okay. We can absolutely we can define some. We can define some,
maybe scores to make it quantify. But you know, the
interface for example, when we look at at first shot, we say,
okay, that's so beautiful. When we have an expectation Yeah,
that's good. Or that's bad. Yeah, that's I'm talking about
Okay. That's why I'm asking for how you should follow.
Okay, so your comments are things we'll discuss or this
semester, okay. So we'll get into those things. Okay, so
we're starting out we'll keep those thoughts in mind, and
we'll engage them more deeply over the semester. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you very well. Have a good day. Thanks. Take care.
Thanks.
Thanks.

Responses

What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?

Today I learned that if a website is pretty or have a really good design it does not mean the interface is good. For a website to have a good interface it needs to meet all or most of the following: It needs to be Consistency (from one page to another), user friendly, reliable (does not output any errors), it has to be easy to use for the end user, responsive (no delays) and readable (no fancy fonts or colour that would make it hard to read). Also everyone aggress that our Uni Website has a bad interface.
We learned and discussed the user interface in terms of good or bad. Exemplary interfaces are user-friendly and functional, keeping the user satisfied and beneficial while using the system, such as interfaces are Gmail, Outlook, Google Maps, Slack, and Discord. A bad user interface confuses the user with a lack of information or unnecessary information, which misleads the user. Suppose the interface for real-time systems is challenging to understand or confuses the user.
There is nothing to respond to from this meeting. We did not do anything meaningful.
Today we understand that what make an interface For example : interactive , reliable , user friendly, accessible and … before we write the answer to the above question we made group of 7 person and we have conversation together and talk together about 15 min.
Learned about marking criteria for this course. Group discussion about good and bad interface and its examples.
Discussed about the characteristics of Good & Bad interfaces. Good interfaces are intuitive, user-friendly, easy to navigate, accessible, compatible, consistent and reliable. Bad interfaces, on the other hand are overly complicated, inconsistent and non compatible, containing unwanted elements, with a poor design overall, making them non user-friendly. On an illustrative note, Google maps have a good interface, while Apple maps on the other hand have a poorly structured interface.
In today's meeting I learned that reliability, easy navigation, readability, security, and responsiveness are the main important keys for a good interface otherwise the interface would lack a good user experience. For example uregina.ca and transitelive websites are websites that are hard to navigate.
The most important thing that I learned today was the usefulness of the 5 Es in assessing a good interphases. The 5 Es are Ease of use, Error Tolerance, Efficiency, Ease of learning, and Engagement. It is also important to note how many other important factors (such as ease of navigation, self explanation, and consistency) all fall under the five Es. I also learned that the absence of some of the 5 Es is a sign of a bad interphase.
The most important thing we discussed in class today was about good and bad interfaces. The 5 E's (easy to learn, efficient, engaging, error tolerant, easy to navigate) and other factors such as accessibility, consistency, intuitiveness and comprehensibility. Google maps, Instagram, Discord can be considered examples of good interfaces.
Apart from the Activity Weights that were discussed, we had an important discussion about a Good and a Bad Interface. What makes an interface likeable compared to the latter and a few examples of a Good/Bad Interface.
Today, the most important thing I learned from the discussions is that the best user interfaces for general audiences are user-friendly ones; friendly user interfaces are easy to navigate and read through. They're also usually clean and visually appealing to most people. General audiences care more about convenience and accessibility than the specifics.
Introduced the mark distribution.We discussed what make an interface good or bad and some example.The bad interface example is transitlive.
The most important thing that I learned in this class is that I get a basic understanding of what is a good or bad user interface, the group discussion help me a lot.
In today's meeting, we have discussed about what makes an interface good or bad and different types of examples to it. We learned that interfaces are good when it is designed as intuitive, accessible, reliable, has 5 E's, user friendly, consistent and comprehensible so that user who are or will be using the interface can have a good experience to it without any errors. An example of good interface would be Google because it is very easy to navigate and find what you are looking for.
There are so many websites and applications today that some of them have such a bad interface which often gets ignored. After our group discussion we could list a handful of applications that are used everyday regardless of the fact that it has a bad interface. Simply because there is no alternative for those specific applications.
In today's class we had a discussion in groups made in the class and indeed it was a great experience as getting to know each other and discussing the questions about what makes an interface good or bad and their related examples. I have learned that concept of cooperation and it was really fun discussing the concepts at the end of the lecture while responding to the professor. Other details of the course were also discussed such as the overall weightage of the course, the assignments, the research project.
Many factors have to be considered to determine if an interface is good or bad. Some of the examples from today's class was user friendliness, intuitiveness, and comprehensiveness. It was interesting to hear that many students found the University of Regina Self Service website to have bad interface. An example of a good interface was Google.
In this meeting, Dr. Hepting declared the grading and evaluation methods. There are two types of assignments, one of which will be the same for both groups, and one will be different. Additionally, the number of people needed to complete the project (40% in total) was discussed, which could be up to 4 undergraduates and graduates can do it alone. Lastly, two discussion questions were asked. What makes a good or bad interface? Intuitive, Accessible, Five E's, user-friendly. Good: Google Bad: Livetransit, URs
A few things I learned about today were what makes a good UI and some examples include of good or bad interface. As we were discussing, all groups came up with answers that makes a good UI were 5E's, reliable, fast, etc and a few good examples were google, apple and bad examples are transitive and UR self service.
It has been explained about students assessments. Respond to Meeting, individual assignments, projects, exams, participation and research are so important. Dr.Hepting suggested group discussion. All of us joined in a group based on row table where we sat. We discussed about interface and example of good and bad interface. Some students said about accessible, reliable, user friendly and comprehensive. Ur service, google map, transit applications were introduced as examples of bad interface.
The most important thing which I learned today is to work in a group and get to know different people. We talk about what a good or a bad interface looks like and also discussed in group some example about the interface.
In today's class I learned and discussed about good and bad interfaces in groups. it's fun learning with each other because I have not done any group work before so it's my first time. So talking about good or bad interfaces, good interfaces are easy to use, navigate, secure. Examples are Google maps, Instagram, discord. Bad interfaces are transit live, snapchat, webmail etc.
I learned today what makes an interface good or bad. It's the most important thing to make a user-friendly and reliable interface. Minimum information and then adding up things in the sub description.Some good example are quota, Instagram, goggle while on the other hand, bad ones are Facebook, Apple maps, transit live.
Today is my second class,There is a discussion on mark distribution, grading for participation in meetings, individual assignments, projects, tests, and finally research credit. and asked us to divide into groups of our choice, We have a great conversation about interfaces, good and bad apps .The most important thing i have learned was about interfaces and grading criteria. difficulties I had faced today were, the voice not being audible and the text not being visible .
Dear Prof. Hepting. Today me and my new group discussed designing good and bad interfaces. We noticed that good interfaces should be user friendly and has 5 E's of usability and bad interfaces are ones that are hard to use for the users. Also, we chose google and twitter as good interfaces and uregina self service as bad one.
Today, I got a chance to discuss with fellow classmates regarding different aspects of user interface. We shared different point of views and got to learn from all of them. Also realized that as a user of any application, the interface of it is very important factor for many reasons.
The group discussion was really a good way to know about everyone's perception about what an interface is.
Today we talked about what makes an interface a good or bad. The good part is basically, efficient, effective, easy to use error tolerant. And the bad part is inconsistent, unreliable and the opposite of the five E's. I learned also, the good and bad example for the interfaces.
I learned what made a good interface, and I got some examples of good or bad interfaces during class time.
Today's lecture was mainly about the course plan for the semester. Then mainly for the other can be discussed, that is, what kind of interface is a good interface, whether there is an example to prove the good and bad interface. Our group gave some examples and counterexamples through the discussion, and obtained some discussion results of other groups.
Today we discussed what makes a good interface as well as examples of good/bad interfaces. The most important thing that we discussed was what my fellow classmates think is important in determining whether an interface is good or bad.

Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?

I am confused as to why so many people feel that the UR Self Service site is not a good interface.
It's frustrating that I still can't attend class because of the Covid-19. I'm really curious what is going on in class.

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

In today's class we have discuss about the syllabus distribution. In the group discussion we have discuss about what makes an interface good and bad. In class we discuss about good example like amazon and bad example like transit user interface. I would be interest to know more about this topics.
Today in class we got to participate in a group activity where we came up with examples of good or bad interfaces. Our group came up with Google, Youtube, or Wikipedia as good websites from an interface perspective. Examples of bad ones we came up with were Bing, CTV, CBC, and the U of R’s website. I would be really interested to learn more about what applications/websites other students consider as examples of good or bad interfaces.
Today in the meting we discussed about two major questions Q1) What makes an Interface good or bad? and Q2) What are some some example of good and bad interface?
Can too much of one aspect in designing a good user interface be a negative thing? There are aspects of the interface that make it good like the ease of use and accessibility. Over-emphasis on one can change the practicality behind the interface. Take for example accessibility which even though it is important needs to consider design for a wider range of audiences which can complicate how/if a certain feature can be incorporated into the interface. What's the right balance between access and functionality?
Today we discussed what makes a good and bad interface. However, we didn't hear what truly made an interface good or bad from the textbook. This will require more time since the reason we had stopped was because we had run out of time. Also, we didn't discuss the different types of interfaces available in human-computer communication such as the voice or keyboard interfaces. All we talked about was website interfaces in which the mouse is used to point at whatever buttons were put in the website.
What makes an interface good or bad? There are several factors to it. But which is most and least important, that is what I want to know.

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