Mtg 3/24: Tue-18-Jan-2022

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• Hello everyone. How are you doing today.
• Very well, thank you, how are you.
• Well i'm glad to hear that you're doing very well i'm doing all right, thank you. So we talked yesterday. And the Faculty of science at the university here. I bought I return to face to face learning. I mean our classes. was meant to be online. Regardless but we're now. we've announced the President has announced that everyone will come back to campus and March 1. and possibly some classes may return to face to face learning. one February seven. So march 1 is the. Week after our reading week or break. and So February 7 would. mean. For me, because i'm teaching another class Tuesdays and Thursdays. For in person. meetings before the break. So we're having discussions about. To return on February seven. or on march 1. So that's what's been going on here. So. Let me show you my website here again. So explain the issue that i'm having. So i'm using bootstrap. Sorry, I was getting a phone call there. heard that doesn't. So i'm using bootstrap, which is a mobile first. approach to website design, so that. that's using media queries. And so on to. create a. pleasant experience with the website, regardless of which device you're whether you're on a small for smartphone. or a tablet or a desktop. So i've been working on the teaching. material. And I. have made some progress on. updating it, but what I noticed was. That wasn't. There is change that I was making and I first attributed it to. A problem with the browser or. I was looking at it as a problem with the browser. On my iPhone because things weren't working just the way that I wanted. But then I realized that the CSS the cascading style sheet. file, where I had made my changes was not being updated on. My public website. So I made that change. And I was pleasantly surprised. So that introduced another issue because. The going from bootstrap for to bootstrap five. is broken. My homepage menu. So illustrates so here I am. With the navigation menu. stretched out expanded. And then, as I go. To a smaller size so it's past the. Small break point. So there's a breakpoint set there so smaller within that I get the toggle. icon. And if it's larger than that with that I get the menu. So this works. But now, this doesn't work. So. that's where i'm at today, so if you're accessing my website on the mobile on a mobile platform, and you have that toggle or. icon and it's not work. You may not be able to get past. The main page. So i'm hopeful that i'll get that sorted out today. But if you go to. An interior page.
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• Then should all be good. Okay. So this is. I wanted to show.
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• I want to show the results of me. debugging. This display so. As you go through. The page then. You can navigate by clicking on. One of the tabs at the top. So the idea is now. You can scroll through the page and so you have the header That gives you the. headings. And you can click on them to navigate to that anchor location. You see, at the bottom. A note about when the site was built so. Everything is contained in. In the display see you have a navigation top.
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• Maybe finesse us a bit more so that. You see, the whole thing right now it's got a little maybe it's still a little bit too big. So there we go. that's what i'm. So i've been up to so. And the reason i'm having. additional difficulties. deploying this site is because. The travis ci. process that was using. is not available to me anymore. Unless I pay some money i'm disinclined to do that. So i'm. Working on getting things set up so that. I can use a different tool. But in the meantime. I don't have any protection against me. doing the wrong thing. So. Alright, so let's do our attendance. We can stretch this out of bed again. Okay i'm. just looking at the comment in the chat so let's address that next. Okay, so to go through the comments so cached on the browser you know I tried, I did a reload or hard restart reload. So i'm getting the latest, the latest version of the site. Excuse me. You know. So I tried that now. Let me see what. This link does. So I clicked on the link. And it seemed to work for me, so this is. So in order. The approach i've taken with your courses or moodle. If any of you had experience with moodle before.
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• So my approach to using. moodle, so I think it's good for many things. So my. My effort is to keep. The content that I have about assignments. about other things so assignment descriptions I keep on my website so i'm not updating it. Constantly they're not constantly but, so I don't have to edit. The web page and keep track of. version that I have. So I have a little script on my webpage. So does. The link that I have for my. My website has an argument that says current at the end. And so. What happens is it goes to the main page for the course 730. And then it does a little check to see that. 730 is being offered this semester, and then it. switches the. changes the address in the URL. To go to. The fully qualified name for the offering. That makes sense. So I neglected to upload the transcript of our session, but here are their responses from you. So. The most important thing that I learned. i'm not sure about the wording of that type of response. The most important thing. Or how would you like, the most important thing that I discussed. or what's a better way to phrase that. i'm wary of. Saying that we learn. Particular things when. They can't put in discussion and. So the discussions are a good start. For learning about these topics. But I don't want. To say that you know we've covered. The whole topic. In our brief discussion so. I would appreciate your feedback about labels they use for the different types of responses. Okay. So, in the first comment I learned in the breakout session. So good interfaces are good yeah good interfaces. Are are smooth. easy to use, have a good user experience. color flow interaction with the application must be seamless to the user. Okay, so what. Can we maybe distinguish between ease of use and user experience. and Another term might be usability so what's the relationship. Between usability and user experience. Anyone want to. turn on your MIC and have a go with that one.
• And I want to believe that usability is part of user experience, like a good user experience so if it's efficient to use easy to learn and safe to use, for example, then the user experience. is good Oh, I see.
• yeah, so I think there's their.
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• not exactly the same. So a on in the chat said. usability is functional and user experience. Now, how comfortable, it is for the user to. Use the interface, well, we might also say that. User experience is more. emotional. Maybe less objective. And designers when we design an interface we can't. force a particular user experience on a person. You know they will be. User will be happy when they use my interface. Or maybe they will be sad. I don't think that's not a design goal to make people sad using an interface. um. So user experiences about having. may be about having fun. If you think about something that's usable. It might be boring. So there's a video. At 10 by don Norman it talks about. These kinds of issues so i'll put that in our. plan for next meeting. yeah so something can be usable. good night have a great user experience. So we might distinguish. Between the kinds of. activities we can accomplish with an interface. So we may. start out. With an activity that we can accomplish and activities so that may we may talk about the activity being. Effective. Though we can accomplish it. But it may not be easy or may not. make us happy to do it, you frustrating.
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• We know that it's you can find we can locate the capability to do this and. and get through it. So a level up from that might be comprehensible, so that things are put together in a way that. Maybe requires a bit of thoughts, though, but. The pieces fit together in a way that. allows us to make correct predictions about how to access new commands. and so forth. And then, a higher level still be sending that satisfying you know, so that we don't. We don't end up with. getting out of our tasks are the thing we want to accomplish. It just makes sense. And so. we're allowed to stay in. A very tight loop of issue commands any feedback and. What seems to be the right thing to do, works. We can accomplish. Our task very quickly. And without. Sir thinking about. Now I have to do this with the computer and so on, you just. Doing. The US you're just doing the task. So one way to. Think about satisfying activities is that there's a very small very tiny distance from. Between the user and the computer server conceptual distance. comment in the chat. let's pick it up in a minute. So you can think of. conceptually there being a distance between the user and the interface. So. If the activity is satisfying. You have a very tiny gap. But if the activity is not satisfying it's difficult to understand how to accomplish the goals that we have it's difficult to understand. The state of the system after we execute a command. So we can think. More of these. tiny got. as being rather large golf so we go from the when the user issues a command. We can say there's maybe a big golf of execution. and In terms of looking at the state of the system after command is executed. and not being able to. identify. What happened with the commands we executed. That leaves us with a golf of evaluation so it's hard for us to evaluate the current state of the system. So we'll talk about those ideas. Some more over the. semester. So how is the.
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• Let me go back to a comment. sponsor navigation could be an example. Have a good user experience so. When it's working. And then it can be very much the case so. But. You can't see it that's going to lead to a good user experience. We might say that it responsive design. encourages a good user experience. So is that. distinction subtle or or too subtle. So, think about when you're on when you go to access a website on your phone. and uses respond it's a responsive website so on the phone. You have things that are properly sized. they're not too close together, so your fingers don't hit the wrong button. Compare that with going to. A destination website that's not responsive and so what happens when you go with the URL. You see everything and very tiny type, so the desktop site is. presented to you. In a very unfriendly way. Any thoughts about that. So how are things going with the wiki so notice.
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• That I appreciate about. appreciates the right word. So i'm. The thought is nice that we have. A table of contents. But it seems to be. Not a very reliable table of contents that gets generated. And there's very little documentation about it so. If I wanted to understand. How do you include a table of contents or how to. change it. there's very little support for that. So I would encourage classwork group one. To maybe add a bit more detail to the. To. Your notes about our first meeting. And then for last days meeting. If a bit more detail. So my if I talked about the usability of the wiki. Or the my my sense of using the wiki. I would say that maybe it's comprehensible. it's not quite satisfying. Anyway, so I encourage. You keep working with the wiki and we'll. get a better handle on things as we go along semester. What do you have any feelings about. Using the ricky. So let's do some edits here i'll show you. What the what the editing interface looks like. So here we're editing the page for today's meeting, so the arrow the top left. is about showing some more. items. So you don't have to worry about writing html. So much. sort of back to news, you can say up. Okay today see. Now you can see, navigation is. So i'm. So what I can observe here is. i'm not sure how to get a table of contents out of this. Because I think. My feeling is that are getting table contents, based on the headings. Maybe a few revisit. The page. No. So. that's the wiki. So we're in our third meeting today. If you're in group three today, I encourage you to take the lead on editing but you don't have to be in that group to add some comments. Some content to the page. And we can think about. Whenever we do something. How easy or difficult is. let's see. Well, how easy or difficult it is to accomplish a task without. Having to. take a step back. From the task and. and consider. What it is you're doing and what needs to be done, and so forth, so. Has anyone used to hammer and a nail. hammer to hit a nail into some wood to build something. So as an example. when things are going well and. you're in the zone, so to speak. You just you're you're building something building a box, whatever it is. and things are going great. Until the point when you hit your thumb instead of the nail. And then. you're taken right out of the task which you call wish trying to accomplish. You know, no longer building something you're. swearing at the hammer or the nail or the piece of wood. And so, when. We experience an interface that doesn't. keep us in it in the experience of the task. it's like hitting our thumb think hitting. hitting once thumb. With a hammer and. being very clear that we're. have to be very deliberate and careful with our use of the tool. So make sense.
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• Z anyone have. Other examples of that idea. That come to mind. So this isn't on your courses yet. But I neglected to talk about the other day. And then i'll i'll put a link into your courses. So here's a list of the reference materials. So the textbook. which has its own website. So look at the first six chapters. it's. Good investment. Because you will be. Making use of that text. In in 731 and 732. So Donald Norman the design of everything everyday things. it's a very nice book. and elaborate and some of the ideas that will talk about. and seeing videos. So. there's a. open. psychology edition psychology reference. The link there. And then there's from the interaction interaction design foundation, the encyclopedia of H ci. So there are some chapters that we use from there also. So. A breakdown. For evaluation is. There be assignments with 25%. midterm exam there'll be 15%. A final exam will be half. The final grade and 10% for participation and engagement. So any thoughts, so I included a link. interaction design. chapter in the encyclopedia. So. On this topic, I wanted to. share with you some quotes. So here, the first one is a quote from. JCR lickliter. Who is head of the Defense advanced research project agency in the 1960s. And that's. that's agency that was funding a lot of basic research that help develop the Internet, for example. But he says insurance seems worthwhile to avoid arguments with other enthusiasts for artificial intelligence. By conceding dominance in the distant future, a celebration to machines alone. There will, nevertheless, nevertheless, be a fairly long interim during which the intellectual advances will be made by people and computers working together and intimate association. A multidisciplinary study group. Examining future research and development problems of the United States air force. estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence. will make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving a military significance. So that would leave say five years to develop a human computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 maybe 10 or 500 but those years should be intellectually, the most creative and exciting history of mankind. So That to me is a reason. motivation to. Think about interaction design and human computer interaction. So this next quote is by john mere who's. who founded the Sierra club which was an environmental. Well sinking Sierra club is active today. Dealing with environmental issues. there's a better way to describe it than that but. that's what I have, for now, when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find a hitch to everything else in the universe. So. The takeaway from That to me is. That we can't abstract things too far. away from the context which makes things. relevant to us. The situation in which we find ourselves trying to accomplish a task. or. interact with something. is certainly an important factor. So this is. A popular. And well respected author who's no longer with us give a commencement speech in 2005. And then he wrote a book about it. called this as water Douglas pardon me David foster wallace is the author's name. So these two young fish. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way. The old aficionados at them and says morning boys how's the water. To yesh two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other end goes what the hell is water. So. The reason for that inspirational quote is. that there may be things. around us that we just accept as part of. Our surroundings, we don't. We don't see them. We don't see them. As. on their own, I guess. So you might just make assumptions. And not. Look at the details. So I encourage you to look at the details about. When we're in the situation of designing interfaces. And the last one I want to. bring up for you is a quote from Steve Jobs. And I think 1995. and Steve sangu so when you grew up you tend to get told the world is the way it is in your life is just to live your life inside the world. try not to bash into the walls too much try to have a nice family have fun save a little money that's a very limited life life could be much broader once you discover one simple fact. Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it and you can build your own things other people can use once you learn once you learn that you'll never be the same again. So. That ties into this design involves changing situations by shaping and deploying artifacts. For one thing. So you're still with me. We might just have a peek at. The Chapter one. resources. So let's test okay not bad. So. It has a responsive design. may feel feeling is that some of this text is a little bit. On the small side. So just noticing there. The breadcrumbs about introduction.
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• Oh. i'm sorry. So my observation here was so we have the breadcrumb home resources Chapter one introduction. If we go back to Chapter one. it's the same. To same place that we started that. And so the link. download the overheads for Chapter one as a PowerPoint. can think about whether. expect. The download. The word download to be. The link. and none of these other. words that may be. grab our attention, a little more quickly. So i'd like to encourage you to think critically about. The interfaces you encounter. and run out of time for today. I appreciate. your attendance today. Thank you, thank you for today and we'll see you on Thursday. And i'll. Get the transcripts uploaded. And we'll have. A response activity. right away, and if you'd like to talk to me. When officer starts in about 13 minutes or 15 minutes some somewhere in there. So I look forward. to seeing you Thursday and take care, have a great day. See you later.

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• Usability: Functional; User Experience: How comfortable it is for the user to use it
• User experience is more like feedback
• A product can be usable but not have great user experience
• The responsive navigation you showed earlier could an example of a good user experience. We didn't have to introduce the toggle button (hamburger menu) for the menu and it would still be usable but would not have a good user experience on smaller screen.
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Responses

What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?

• How responsiveness of the website make it a better UI experience.
• Today's class taught me how user experience differentiates from usability and why it is essential to have a good user experience.
• We gone through the course syllabus and game to know about theory of good design techniques and the gone through the course textbook.

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

• More practical and theoretical examples of interaction design and how Human Computer interaction is applicable in our day to day lives. This is will aid better understanding of the course .