normally at the bottom of the monitor for cable management, usually the neck of a monitor actually has some kind of clip on that you can feed cables through to keep all your cables also keep the cords out of the way out of sight out of mind
so just a big compromise here saying this is maybe a good compromise some users or not so, so if somebody encountered a new scale and it was not technically technically savvy, what would you how would you imagine someone dealing with that call? Maybe services from what I've seen call their technical?
So we can think about whether that this is the best compromise or not. See if I can login quickly how's your weekend? Everyone Have a good weekend? Who makes those pains. So who makes those
Canadian Tire brands so like that weird thing? Like that little Franken character on them? Like, if they were sitting out, um, that was the food option I would eat them but I don't think I purchased
that they just made
me. So I was hoping to have a video that Hamza and Marcille took on Friday didn't seem didn't catch it. So I hope it's gonna get sorted out after class.
So anyway, here's the password. For today. Here's the QR code right. So anyway, here's a couple pictures of the door so the question is where are the buttons to operate the door? Let's see. So one thing I noticed the question is so is this really an automatic door so judging from the video I took Yes, because it pushes back against me want to try and open filtering the handle. So it does that automatically.
Maybe not, it's not in the sense that we'd expect that nobody has to walk up and and the door open for us does not have a sensor in it on the ceiling to detect when there's movement in front of it. And open the door.
So the other thing is, so if it's not automatic, we have to operate with by pressing a button wherever the buttons located, it just so happens the button on the far side of the door towards the hallway is in this facility here. walked by the sticker can't see it
this case it's also blocked by the sticker but it's further down the far side of this wall between the artwork and the fire extinguisher or defibrillator I'm not sure which one of those things it is
but there's around it's not that steep. The button is here so the question is if somebody is in a wheelchair, navigating by themselves is it is a time to the door is open appropriate for them for the person to come. up the ramp and through the door.
So I included a search for accessibility standards. I didn't go through them rely on documents
let's see if we can find some see if we can find some answers. Okay, so this one is most promising accessibility model standard for the built environment accessibility our doors operator our door operators. So I didn't expect to I didn't expect a statement that said button must be X number of meters and most x meters from the door
a navy so I invite you to look through some resources and see if we can find some standards
we can use to assess whether the door is accessible or not. I wouldn't say it's too accessible. But anyway maybe it's maybe it's a problem if the door stays open too long.
Okay, so there's a little bit of discussion. Here I'll draw the other button. There was some discussion about forming groups last day for the project and I just wanted to indicate that working in groups is is a good thing and helps build character gets you to experience different perspectives even if your group is so you choosing your own groups and you're not necessarily choosing your groups to maximize diversity. But working in a group, you can see that there are different different approaches different opinions, different perspectives that are valuable. And similarly if we're in a group, and we notice, so we might see the areas that are covered by the group members and the ones that are maybe are still
no one covers no one maybe it's there are some areas where people don't cover
cover them out of out of interest, but necessity, say.
So the idea is that groups give you a perspective on working groups experiences, good experience for things you take on after this. That's why we do groups. And in the book, it talks about sort of the different multidisciplinary teams that are put together to do interface design. So we're talking about interfaces like this door, Soldier technical people involved in setting the timers to create the buttons to create the buttons and the timers and the motors and so on the technical things. But then there are also people who are maybe psychologists people working in the areas of accessibility who can empathize and maybe are members of communities who have more greater need for accessibility in the buildings space. So we get a range of opinion and perspectives. And so it's not just that we're trying to imagine what it'd be like if we had to use a wheelchair to navigate campus. You can engage people in radically different experiences.
Does that make sense? That's my microphone working today. Back row. Right Okay, thanks. So let's go back to that diagram. Start drawing just right
good luck.
Okay, so here we have the user is a person, obviously a person Sorry, I'll make any console my drawing abilities. So, I have the person and the computer. So what we started talking about the Gulf of execution and evaluation. So out of those Can we talk about recall from our period of discussion how to label the diagram in that way? Anyone? So, we had an arrow going this way, the arrow going this way. How could we label was two arrows.
So another possible label is this as an interaction and what what could this be the court to go with the interaction
starts with the ones I'm thinking of see what I drew the right number of blanks. So you can you feel when I guess the word you can or if you want a letter
information?
Yes. Now let's see for bonus points, and I drew the right number of blanks. Looking good, okay. Right. So, when the user interacts with the system, and the user inter interprets the information presented by the system so if this is if it's straightforward, so we know what to do continue immediately. You see the doors well think I'm drawing too close to the screen.
So let's say lol doors and then our idea of keeping right we have to push on that side. So we could say well, no, we just have to push on that panel to open the door
so the golf This is the conceptual distance between the person and the artifact or the interface. So if it's if it's easy to understand, so we're walking or keeping right in the hallways as we want. We talked about that. Let's say we have on the right hand side or the right hand door, push, we push it and open the door without having to think about here's the door How do I open up than that? Golf is very small. If it's if it looks like the door does in the hallway, the education building then it takes a bit more effort and so the golf is wider. So if if the golf is wider so so there's a golf. You can see it's a twin golf so the execution and evaluation because there's a distance between the user going from what is taking their goal opening the door and deciding what actions to perform. So that's one golf and there's another golf of saying here's the system state. Here's the door. Here's the information the door presents me how do I understand that? side of the door so they're twin girls okay, so don't want to start on your side so what can we do to minimize the design, minimizing the design the sculpts of execution and evaluation of the options so the options
don't know what's necessary.
Provide clear concise information. Sorry. Okay, make that one word. Okay, so think about that. Any other thoughts about how we can minimize goals in terms of design? Testing can do testing amazing information saying well more about that. How would you analyze it?
It might be just an extension of testing but getting the actual end user to try it out. Like you mentioned earlier having somebody in a wheelchair accessible a donor more concise way of phrasing. It analyze information from the tests so we can maybe do that as well. So we've mentioned information a few times about.
Visual,
you get a visual or subconscious indicators rather than
documentation books.
The simpler the information is presented on how to use it the better
Yeah, okay. signifiers of different things that you can see and understand as ways to operate interface.
Stick to people
okay. Okay, so we had a little discussion on this the other day
how do we how do we stick to what people know? Or how do people know what
that was the word to start by last week. Random discussion or intuition Okay, so. So they know from previous experience so, we can say the concepts so, a famous metaphor before your time I think probably So, when the when Macintosh
came out with a commercialization of the Xerox PARC desktop interface and then Windows also adopted the same approach with files. So, you can see on the desktop sort of tracking we talked about desktop computers that's a metaphor as well. Where that's the points in metaphor. We're gonna organize things like an office. So on the desktop, we see file folders. We can drag files and put them into folders. And then if we want to delete something we dragged to the trash. And that's not a perfect metaphor for the way things behave because some things you want to throw away you want to move on the Mac, I'm not sure I'll be able to Windows. drag this to the trash and when you delete this when they erase the contents of the desk but it wouldn't remove this from your desktop learns you couldn't access
the files on the disk anymore. So the goal is to stay indicate. idea of what's possible. Without emphasizing too many details so to the desktop metaphor for computer interface works. So we can sort of take the concept of putting things in folders being directories
and organizing files that way but it's not a perfect because he doesn't predict everything that's going to happen. Surface besides tweeting if you make it too general data say to see if we make it to specific.
So let's say we have to imagine that everyone has some useless coins
and paper plastic wheels. So if the interface I should show you something like this $1 sign
what does that indicate to you for say methods of payments in a parking machine if the input slot we put money in is labeled labeled with $1 sign. What would that indicate to you?
I think shape it's a small little like slip points along the horizontal line
bills. And it's just a plastic pad with the NFC contact contactless payment or tap pay that just depends on
the additional context along with it. Okay,
so aside from the additional
context
I won't draw this let's say I was drawing entries or shooting photographs
ever had these coins illustrated would you say that it's possible to put in dimes and nickels What if I just drew this Okay, so is that concept clear enough? I apologize.
You look at it, exactly what coin accepts with a diagram of the coin.
So, the idea is when we're working with metaphors so we can we'll talk about this more next day to think about metaphors. You are operating an interface to go from there on Wednesday. Thank you very much for today. Have a good day. You ever question. Yeah.
So, the idea is when we're working with metaphors so we can we'll talk about this more next day to think about metaphors. You are operating an interface to go from there on Wednesday. Thank you very much for today. Have a good day. You ever question. Yeah.
