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[Please complete the assignment on page 337 of the Set Book]Reconsider the HutchWorld design and evaluation case study and note what was evaluated, why and when, and what was learned at each stage?How was the design advanced after each round of evaluation?What were the main constraints that influenced the evaluation?How did the stages and choice of techniques build on and complement each other (

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How user-centred was the approach taken by Tokairo? Start by listing the main stakeholders - beneficiaries, decision makers, gatekeepers and workers - and discussing their roles in the development process.Then analyse Tokairo's approach against each of the five principles of user-centered development given on page 286 of the Set BookThe main stakeholders in the project were, at a corporate level,

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Describe the approaches taken to user involvement in the Tokairo case study and discuss these using the issues you identified in Review Question 5 [List the (eight) issues you need to consider when deciding on the appropriate level of user involvement]. What alternative approaches might they have taken? You should refer to the case studies in Section 9.2.1 of the Set Book as examples.What

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Look back through the previous sections. Describe Tokairo's approach to design. How these map  onto the ID activities and characteristics of the ID process?Having established the user requirements, Tokairo bought their own experience into the design process. Some of the major decisions - such as the choice of touch-screen input and the choice of a "big lottery ticket" form - were made rapidly,

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Look back through the previous section and list the characteristics of the approach that Tokairo took to the requirement activity. How do these map onto the ID activities and the characteristics of the ID process (as discussed in Section 6.2.1 starting on page 168 of the Set Book)? What is their attitude to stakeholders?Tokairo have a methodology with a first stage being the Site and System Audit

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This activity builds upon Activity 6.4 on page 182 of the Set Book. Compare the two electronic calendar designs using the following usability and user experience goals:Efficiency: In particular, which design enables the user to find a given date most quickly?Learnability: which design will be easiest to learn?Aesthetically pleasing.Enjoyable.Which design do you prefer, and why?Efficiency: The

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I now want you to draw a design for an electronic calendar system that is radically different to the outline sketch in Figure 6.1. [which shows a page and book model] You only need to draw a single sketch in order to illustrate your design. Try asking yourself questions such as: how could a mobile telephone, with a small sceen, be used to access an electronic calendar? What are the

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Draw a stakeholder diagram for the supermarket check-out system from Activity 6.2 on page 172 of the Set Book.Without further ado...

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Who are the stakeholders in the At Home website project?All groups shown in the associated organisation chart have some kind of stake in the project. The front-line, logistics and support, and customer support staff will all be affected by changes in the way the company communicates with customers, and the training group will be affected by changes in the job-description and turnover of

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You are being employed as a novice interaction designer on a project to develop a public kiosk providing information about the exhibits available in a science museum (this is one of the examples used in Activity 1.2 on Page 10 of the Set Book).Consider how you might implement each of the four ID activities. For example, you might observe users as a part of establishing requirements. As it is

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Complete the assignment on page 28 of the Set Book. [...]Find a handheld device and examine how it has been designed, paying careful attention to how the user is meant to interact with it.(a) from your first impressions, write down what first comes to mind as to what is good and bad about how it has been designed, paying particular attention to how the user is meant to interact with it.. Then

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Jade Goody was a public buffoon - someone who was made us all feel smart by comparison with her, with a small, grudging admiration only for her lack of illusion and her clear-headed determination to make a career as a "celebrity", until early cancer changed her tale from comedy to tragedy.Looking at the much-exposed wedding photo of her - in black, her hair lost to chemotherapy - kissing her

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Using the design principles (visibility, feedback, constraints, mapping, consistency and affordance) to informally evaluate the user interface of the rather old-fashioned Casio watch simulated on this DVD [...]As it is easier to evaluate an interactive product with a particular task or tasks in mind, I suggest that without looking at the Help menu (the user may not carry the manual with them),

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Using the definitions given in Section 1.5.1 of the Set Book, informally evaluate how well the National Health Service (NHS) Direct and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) websites satisfy the six usability goals described in Section 1.5.1 of the Set Book: effectiveness, efficiency, safety, utility, learnability and memorability.For each of these I suggest you role play exploring the site as a

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Using the definitions given in Block 1, Unit 2, Review Question 2, informally evaluate how well the CBeebies and Chelsea Football Club websites satisfy each of the user experience goals: satisfying, enjoyable, fun, entertaining, motivating, aesthetically pleasing, supportive of creativity, rewarding and emotionally fulfilling.[... R]ole play exploring the site as a member of the likely target

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[Two screenshots] are taken from BBC website and the BBC CBeebies website.How do the two home pages compare with each other, with regard to the user experience goal aesthetically pleasing and the usability goal efficiency? Place two Xs on [a] matrix that indicate their relative positions with regard to these two parameters. A high score for aesthetics means that it is very attractive and a low

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Just documenting this recipe while I can, since I can no longer find it online, but luckily found an old shopping list which helped me reconstruct it:Cooks for 4-6 peopleIngredientsolive oil1 onion, sliced3 red peppers, sliced 2 cloves garlic, crushed2 sticks celery, sliced1 teaspoon turmeric2 hot peppers, shredded (or the Hungarian variation - 1 teaspoon Eros Pista)400 gms chorizo, diced400 gms

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Start by reading the interview with Gitta Salomon on page 31 of the Set Book.List the main characteristics of Gitta's approach and the activities she carries out.How do these relate to the activities in the ID process and the characteristics of the ID process?Gitta Salomon's approach appears to involve iteration through the following activities:decide how to engage with the client's team ("the

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The following are three of the currently important ID websites. I suggest that you:explore Don Norman's site to see what, if anything, he has to say about the latest piece of interactive product you have recently bought or read aboutexplore the Usability.gov site to see what it says about paper prototyping (paper prototyping is an important part of this course)read Usability News to see what the

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Such sad news about the death of David and Samantha Cameron's little son, Ivan. It's hard to imagine the horror of hearing such a diagnosis for your son, the hard slog of caring for and loving him, the sorrow of finally losing him.And time, of course, to consider all the other hidden heroes, quietly getting on with it like Claire Bates, whose very personal response to Ivan's death is almost

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It is common for members of a multidisciplinary team to have different priorities which can lead to conflicts. For [an interactive website educational website to accompany a TV series], list the likely priorities of each of the following team members:Interaction designerEducational advisorGraphic designerSoftware engineerDescribe three different conflicts that may arise in the team as a

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Now go and look at your car dashboard (or that of a friend or colleague). List three aspects of the different controls which might distract you or make driving the car more difficult. Alternatively, if you do not drive, ask someone who does drive about their experiences of driving and the ways in which the controls on their car can cause difficulties.The Toyota Prius has a somewhat idiosyncratic

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Think about the system outline in Box 3 [The 1999 UK Passport Agency Fiasco]. Suggest what the consequences of the Passport Agency's computer problems may have been for the following groups of people:the general publicthe workers at the Passport AgencyThe increase from 2-3 weeks to 7-10 weeks more than tripled the waiting time for passports. This would have been real problem for people needing to

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(One personal frustration provoker is signing on to a course and discovering that you're not using the current edition of the book!)Study Chapter 5, Section 5.4 on page 147 of the Set Book, including the activities. This section is entitled 'User frustration' and provides a list of reason why users often become frustrated when using interactive products and gives examples of what the author refer

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So it's a new year, and I spent several months of last year mumbling to myself about finding a new direction at work. So I identified the direction I want to go as Interaction Design and signed up for an Open University course in Fundamentals of interaction design, and now I need to get my head down and get on with the studying.So, without further ado, here's Block 1 (of 4), Unit 1 (of 4),

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