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19 Jan 2007, 12:23
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[HELP] HCI project manual thingy
If anyone has like 15 minutes I'd really like feedback on this site my group and I made on HCI. It's aimed (as a specification) for software engineers who have no idea what HCI is, and we've chosen security software engineers because it removes a lot of that input / output stuff (and because I thought of a 'funny' name).
Before you complain how low-tech it is, it's meant to be in HTML because it's going to be stuck in a HTML folder and passed around and blah blah blah, so no SQL or anything. Also, we had a word limit of 2500 words which we've just about kept to.
The site is uploaded @ http://www.appocomaster.co.uk/hci_project/final/ , and we have a questionnaire @ http://www.appocomaster.co.uk/hci_pr...stionnaire.doc if you could e-mail it to [email protected] (or just post random feedback )
(please bear in mind how much work I spent sorting out PA for this round when laughing :P)
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19 Jan 2007, 14:07
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
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i wonder if when you saw i had replied you thought i was going to have something useful to say. i bet you didn't!
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19 Jan 2007, 15:47
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Miles Teg
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
Some comments, I hope they are useful, might even mail them:
I am visitting this site as a layman, and immediately when I got there I missed a decent introduction, you start with an introduction within the subject you are working in, you should, I think, take a few steps back and introduce the whole system.
Then I go to 'Input devices' and get the term 'application interface' thrown to my head, ofcourse I understand what it means, but it should be presented better and explained somewhere, maybe you should add a glossary and use some hyperlinks in between? (I mean, isn't that what the whole interweb is about?)
Although the pictures are included in a nifty way, don't you think I just expect them in a table next to them? Think about the design decisions you made building this website.
Now reading this website it becomes more and more clear what you want to do. You make no obvious references to any used literature and so forth, although I doubt it is an academic assignment, if it is, it is shit.
Then I skipped through the rest of it mostly as it is clear to me.
You might want to add a summary somewhere, and if possible, a checklist and/or a processscheme where the various steps are shown to ensure a good HCI proof development.
All in all you might want to update your references, add a summary and a checklist and be a bit less consise as you are doing at the moment. Other then that it seems to be consistent and complete.
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19 Jan 2007, 17:03
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
The very first thing that came across when I read that page was "It's Human-Computer Interaction, not Human-Computer Interfacing".
Human-Computer Interfacing sounds slightly sexual and would be something totally different.
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19 Jan 2007, 17:04
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
"CO819: Human Computer Interfacing"
that's the title of the course
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19 Jan 2007, 17:10
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
"08112: Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction"
That was mine, I suppose different people use different names for the same thing.
Human Computer Interfacing still sounds odd though, like you're physically connecting yourself to the hardware or something. Maybe I've just been watching too much Star Trek
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19 Jan 2007, 19:47
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
in order to improve the interface to your site, implement context links for next/up/previous: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.12
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19 Jan 2007, 22:30
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
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Originally Posted by Knight Theamion
I am visitting this site as a layman.
<Random points based on layman's point of view>.
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
It's aimed for software engineers...
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Erm? Anyway ...
Firstly, I find it ironic that for a document on HCI, it is presented in a particularly unfriendly manner. Text roll-overs spawning an image example? That's horrible ... even if it does describe the action. The problem is compounded when the same text style is used else where for items that don't have roll over content. As I'm sure you are aware, inconsistency makes for a bad user experience.
Presentation critique aside ... the content is generally OK. In my opinion however, it would be better to remove some of the waffel type padding you seem to have on most pages. Writing summary items like "On this page is ..." is pretty redundant when there isn't enough content on the page to justify it. It makes it harder to read. The sub section links you have on the "Testing" page are also not necessary and detract from the content.
The only statement I would disagree with is: "Soft keys: Generic buttons that change their function according to the current page. Not popular." I would argue soft keys are very popular, particularly in the context they were designed for. In fact, I would remove those "not popular / less popular" claims all together. They are very contextual. Arguing that a TrackPad is less popular than a mouse may be true if the user was presented with both, but the whole point of the track pad is to save the space the mouse would occupy. The same with function keys, given the choice of smaller keys, a much larger object to carry, or function keys, I certainly would go with function keys. As before, in the context these items were designed for, I wouldn't make a claim that they were "less popular". I'm curious as to where you got that data from anyway.
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20 Jan 2007, 00:23
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Miles Teg
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Re: [HELP] HCI project manual thingy
That's what I was referring to, there are no references nor is there any research.
Or so it seems.
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