SWE 4783 UIE Interaction Project

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Your interaction Project “Start” (slides 2 – 4) worth 50 pts. with Showing on Oct. 30 for 25 pts. create a Help Agent for a mapping facility called

“Carmen” Create a word cloud Think of the Design Stance for Carmen

◦ What aspect of Carmen’ constraints, motivations, beliefs, and preferences do you want to communicate?

◦ What “words, keystrokes, button selections, etc.” do you want to support in the communication?

◦ Give an example of Carmen’s designer’s deputy discourse you want to communicate OR Explain an instance of user-system communication where mediated designer-to-user metacommunication was realized

Let’s do a new development to a known functionality = maps & directions

Document a possible HCI scenario for a user of CarmenDocument the communication space of the HCI scenario with Jakobson’s Model. (pg. 66-71)

a) Expressive function focus communication on the senderb) conative function it’s receiver c) referential function it’s context d) the phatic function it’s channele) metalinguistic function message’s codef) poetic function on the message

Interaction Project Start

User Carmen

Input Received:Perception: Next Sub-goal:Action:Action token:

 

Two very important items for the interaction project

Draft an interaction dialogue Give the explicit grammar with keystrokes

The user interaction engineering project puts together the entire course learning into a well defined sign.

What is your sign? What is your sign communicating?

◦ At initial At ending◦ At rest◦ At event __________◦ At event __________◦ For undo

SWE 4783 UIE GUI Project Second Part 50 pts. With Showing on Nov. 11 for 25 pts.

Interlocutors Inspecting interlocutors:

◦ Who is speaking?◦ To whom?◦ Are the interlocutors represented?◦ Is the direction of interlocution represented?

Construct a schematic representation

Elaborate Discourse

Sender Receiver Action Message

Prepare Focus Identify Evaluate Select Elaborate

Options for initiating

initiate

Initiation type

Instruct

Demand action

Direct attention

Elicit response

Prepare Query

Respondent

Specific

Whole (all)

Options for responding

Response

Act Identify Select

Options for feedback

Feedback

Evaluate Elaborate Confirmation

Affirm Reject

Representations Are representations

◦ Indexical? Dimension of contiguity between representation and

referent?◦ Symbolic?

What symbol systems used? Who produces? When and how?

◦ Iconic? Static or dynamic? Which are qualitative?

Inspecting message and code What is the speaker saying?

◦ Using which code and medium?◦ Are the code and medium appropriate?

Are there alternatives? Are the speaker and listeners sharing the

same signification system? Can the speaker encode differently?