The HCI Research Group at the University of Bremen (hci.uni-bremen.de <http://hci.uni-bremen.de/>) and the PSA Computing Research Group at Northwestern University (psacomputing.org <http://psacomputing.org/>) would like to invite you to take part in a study on mobile map usage.
We want to investigate how users are using online map applications (e.g. Google Maps, Apple Maps) in the real world. To participate, please fill out our online survey at https://goo.gl/forms/rrpJdXGbyIFooqNO2 <https://goo.gl/forms/rrpJdXGbyIFooqNO2>
Looking for more motivation to exercise? We are running a one-of-a-kind long-term experiment where we motivate people through daily text messages.
We are looking for participants from all over the world, join the 3-months study, help us investigate motivation and install the Android app! Participating in the experiment does not have to cost more than 1 hour divided over 3 months and anybody, with any physical activity level can join!
I am a Ph.D. student working at the intersection of information science, text mining, and natural language processing. We are conducting a research at George Mason University (GMU) to understand how people comprehend a text document, and what makes the text hard to comprehend. This research will help in addressing information overload in the domains of Education, Online Media, and Cyber Security to name a few.
I would like to invite you to participate in a survey about the quality of the alternate text for images in web pages and how semantic content analysis could improve it.
Alternate text is important for people with visual impairments to be able to comprehend what an image represents. It is made available via an attribute to the tag in web pages and is used by assistive technology to describe the image for those that cannot perceive it visually. It is the most common example in the field of web accessibility. Having an alternate text attribute does not
We are working on a review of existing questionnaires related to personal preferences for touch, vibration, haptic, or tactile enjoyment experiences. Any help identifying existing questionnaires in this space would be greatly appreciated. We will be sure to re-post the list we obtain for others who might be similarly interested.
Please reply directly to this email. Thanks in advance for any help you can give! Alina
You are being invited to participate in a research study titled [personal visualization]. This study is being done by Majedah Alrehiely from Swansea University. The questionnaire was designed to find out more about physical activity tracking and self-trackers preferences. By participating in this survey you will be helping us in designing our personal visualization system. It will take you approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you can withdraw at any time.
The Dark Side of Social Media (http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=6891) Write for a journal with an Impact Factor of 3.017 Guest Editors: Professor Jari Salo, University of Helsinki, Finland ([log in to unmask]) Dr. Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland ([log in to unmask]) Dr. Najmul Islam, University of Turku, Finland ([log in to unmask]) Submission Deadline: 28th February, 2017 Motivation and Aim of the Special Issue The social media has a profound effect on the way people communicate, present themselves, and spend their time. Hence, social media is significant phenomenon also from organizational, business, and societal perspectives. While social media has benefited individuals, organizations, and societies in many ways, there is
We are conducting research on people's experiences with online dating services.The survey only takes 5 minutes to complete. It is anonymous and voluntary and you are able to withdrawal at any time. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
Melanie
Melanie AB Buset M.A Human-Computer Interaction, Carleton University (expected 2016) B.A Psychology, Brescia University College at Western University (2012) [log in to unmask] , [log in to unmask] http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/melanie-buset/69/299/52b/
We are conducting research on people's experiences with online dating services.The survey only takes 5 minutes to complete. It is anonymous and voluntary and you are able to withdrawal at any time. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
Melanie AB Buset M.A Human-Computer Interaction, Carleton University (expected 2016) B.A Psychology, Brescia University College at Western University (2012) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> , [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/melanie-buset/69/299/52b/
We are conducting research on the kinds of projects interaction designers work on. If you are an interaction designer, please take our 20-minute survey. The survey is anonymous and voluntary.
http://svy.mk/2aUeX14 For questions, please contact Graham Dove <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>. If you know other interaction designers, please share this request with them. Graham Dove CAVI & PIT Aarhus University
I am a Research Assistant at the Schi Lab, University of Sussex. We are urgently looking for volunteers for a 10min online task. Can you help?
Study brief: the world surrounding us is filled with moments able to take our breath away, leaving us in a state of awe. We have collected over 300 awesome videos featuring nature, humans, etc. and would love to get your opinion on how awesome these moments really are. If you are interested in watching 10 videos, each 30sec long, and answer some questions, please send an email to
If you use activity trackers such as wrist-bands from Fitbit or Jawbone, or in smart watches from Apple or Samsung, or a smart ring or bracelet, we would like to know about your experiences of using such devices for monitoring your health and the criteria for choosing them.
As a part of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust-funded Digital health wearables project (http://www.shaileyminocha.info/digital-health-wearables/) at The Open University, UK, we are running a survey: please visit https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/health-wearables-choices-effects to participate in this survey. It will take 6-8 minutes to complete it.
I am Francesco Vitale, a Master student at Université Paris-Sud, France. I am currently writing my thesis about how people experience software updates, working with the ExSitu research team and Inria. We are now looking at the frequency of updates on Mac computers.
If you regularly use a *Mac*, please *take part in a short, remote study*: https://francescovitale.typeform.com/to/FdLSYu
I am David Martín-González, a Master student at Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany. I am currently working on a thesis about automatic password generation; we intend to generate passwords which are both usable (as in fairly easy to recall) and reasonably secure.
We are currently running an experiment to measure how people memorize different kinds of passwords, and right now we are looking for volunteers, both technical and non-technical people. Participants will find out about a (we hope) nifty and fun way of creating passwords, read about the results before anyone else and, of course, help someone
I'm still desperate for responses to this logic puzzle (I want to compare the results to a different form of the same puzzle, that had 200,000 responses!). So if you haven't done so already, please consider spending a few minutes trying to solve it. It's good for your brain :)
Below is a link to a very short survey incorporating a logic puzzle. Reading the puzzle won't take more than about 20 seconds, but to answer could well take longer!
Please distribute widely. I will share the results and their implications for HCI and User Experience.
My name is Aleksandra and I am a master's student doing research on UX design methods. Please, ?participate in the following survey: http://goo.gl/forms/xzhinfSqVO
For everybody who did, I prepared a reward (more details on the first page of the survey).
Due to unprecedented severe weather conditions in the northeast of USA and several requests, a submission extension has been allowed for all categories.
The easychair submission site will remain available until Sunday January 31st.
Please note that submission time is kept the same, that is 11:59pm pacific time.
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this survey invitation, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues and students, thank you!]
In our research, we are exploring the future of user interaction between user and smart environments, in particular smart homes. We are now conducting an on-line survey to update, and compare, the research findings of a 5-years old study. In 2010, in fact, hundreds of users responded to a survey, and unveiled a profound mismatch between user expectations and industry offerings.
Measuring Behavior 2016 is organized by Dublin City University and will be held in Dublin, Ireland on May 25-27, 2016.
The Scientific Program Committee invites you to submit your paper or abstract.
Measuring Behavior 2016 offers a variety of formats for presenting your contribution:
- Oral presentations in main sessions. - Oral presentations in specialised symposia (standard scientific presentations) - Posters with associated abstracts. - Tutorial sessions teaching about established tools and methods. - Demonstration Showcase for new inventions, prototypes, and products.
My name is Alan Wecker, and I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Haifa and University of Trento and I am doing research on technologies that can help connect a museum visit to a visit at a cultural heritage site.
I would like your help in filling out this short questionnaire. It should take 7-14 minutes of your time Your collaboration is very important to me and for my research, so I ask you to take your time to think about questions and answer them carefully Give your answers as you feel it is correct for you,
If you collect anything in games, from achievements and trophies to pokemon, we are interested in why as part of a new research program on how players value virtual objects. We are asking game players to fill out a short survey and possibly participate in a follow-up interview.
For an ongoing study I conducted interviews with various musicians and analysed them. As a result, I now collected a set of 100 statements representing the subjective quality of musical instruments.
In the next step, where you are kindly invited to take part, I would like to let the importance of these statements rate by experts in the field.
We are recruiting people with visual design skills to participate in a research study. Participants do not need to be experts - anyone working on a visual design that is personally meaningful such as a website would be welcome to participate. The purpose of the project is to study the feedback that people receive from online platforms and to learn how to build future technologies that improve this experience. We will pay $70 for your participation and will step you through the study.
I am sending this request on behalf of a team of academic researchers at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver B.C. and the University of Calgary. We are conducting a survey of people’s experiences with digital applications that enable them to limit, block, or manage their own access to online services (e.g., social media, incoming calls, the internet entirely). Our survey is brief and aimed at eliciting open-ended responses. If you use or have used any applications like this (e.g., Freedom, Antisocial, Facebook Limiter, iPhone Do Not Disturb, Rescue Time, etc.) perhaps you would consider taking our brief
I'm evaluating a web framework that i wrote for my master thesis at the University of Fribourg. It's goal is to optimise web pages based on user interaction. It's fun, it'll only take 30 seconds of your time and requires about 4 clicks of your part. The evaluation runs on: http://www.fryx.ch/evo
We would like to get a better understanding on why and how people associate (link) information across digital and paper documents. Thereby, associations might be defined by manually annotating parts of paper and digital documents or by using some third-party tools. We would therefore very much appreciate your participation in our study:
Take 10 minute survey to enter a drawing for an Apple Watch: http:// goo.gl/forms/AyftXiB7N6 <http://t.co/sPMQvwf6Os>. Help research on wearable activity trackers whether you love them, hate them, or have even heard of them.
Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM
Certificate in Digital Health Communication <http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/HCOM-Program/Certificate> 7th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication <http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/HCOM-Program/Summer-Institute/Digital-Strategies-for-Health-Communication> offered July 19-24, 2015
Assistant Professor Tufts University School of Medicine Department of Public Health and Community Medicine <http://medicine.tufts.edu/Education/Academic-Departments/Clinical-Departments/Public-Health-and-Community-Medicine> 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111
My group needs to select a new design firm from a list of approved vendors. I’ve been asked to help create a scorecard for the vendor selection process. Deliverables from the firm will include: surveys, phone interviews, wireframes, visual design, and production-ready code (I think just .html and .css).
What criteria have you found to be helpful when selecting a design firm? Do you have a scorecard / evaluation form you can share? Do you have any feedback (positive or negative) on Comrade Agency, FutureDraft, Projekt202, or Effective UI
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Are you a political junkie? Addicted to the news? Is your browser's homepage the New York Times or Wall Street Journal? Or maybe it's the National Review Online or the Huffington Post? Ever wanted a deeper look at what's being said between the lines?
Our team has developed an online tool called FrameCheck, a web browser plug-in that identifies and highlights framing in political news articles as you read them. We're currently looking for people who want to try out the tool. Plus, you'll be entered in a drawing for one of
CFP: BICT 2015 Special Track on Swarm Robotics (SR) 9th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2015, formerly BIONETICS)
http://www.bionetics.org/ Paper submission deadline: August 3, 2015
December 3 (Thu) - December 5, 2015 (Sat) New York City, NY, USA
Sponsored by European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science In corporation with ACM (Pending)
if you use prototyping and mockup tools as part of your work process, then I'd like to kindly ask you to respond to my survey entitled "How people use prototyping tools".
All collected data will be handled anonymously and confidentially. The results of this survey will be published online. I will make a relevant announcement through this list.
The Centre for Research in Computing at The Open University is conducting research for wishagift, a start-up online business based in Milton Keynes, UK. We are investigating people’s gift-giving and gift-receiving behaviours through the use of wish-lists on e-commerce websites.
Please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/wish-lists to take part in an online survey related to this project. It will take 3-5 minutes to complete it.
In the context of the research pursued by the Greta Team from CNRS-LTCI in Télécom ParisTech, we are conducting a study on attitudes of virtual characters.
We need you!
To participate, click on the following link: http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~ravenet/evalGroup/evalGroup.php This will only take 10 minutes!
Our experiment is about social media. By participating in our experiment, we will make recommendations for scientific publications in the broader field of economics, based on 12 different strategies. The recommendations are generated based on a user profile determined from social media activities. All you need is to be an active Twitter user!
You can participate in our experiment by clicking on:Start the experiment! <http://amygdala.informatik.uni-kiel.de/EconBizRecSys/Welcome>
(translated in Finnish after the English version) Hi, I am studying Interactive Technology at the University of Tampere and at the moment I am writing my Master's thesis about mobile tourist guides. My thesis supervisor is Professor Kari-Jouko Räihä. The aim of my thesis study is to find out what services provided by mobile tourist guides users actually use, what kind of experiences users have about mobile tourist guide services and what users think about mobile tourist guide services which they have not used before. Taking part in the survey does not require earlier mobile tourist guide usage experience from
Do you read online reviews prior to making a purchase? Do online reviews affect your purchase decision? If not, would you ever read online reviews and would you think these reviews are for real?
My name is Dara, a PhD student in HCI Design / City University London. I'm running a short online survey about user trust in online reviews and it'd be great if you can participate. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and you can take part via the link below :)
This is a friendly reminder to submit to IUI 2015’s Student Consortium, whose deadline is about six weeks away. This is a prestigious opportunity, and a wonderful chance to get feedback from the IUI research community! Please encourage your students to submit.
Please also note that Student Consortium participants will be given high priority for IUI 2015’s student travel grants!
We would like to get a better understanding on why and how people customize paper and digital maps in a personal context (e.g. for traveling, invitations, a blog, etc.). By customizing we refer to various activities ranging from the simple highlighting of a point of interest with colors, to more complex activities such as adding content or drawing an itinerary. We would therefore very much appreciate your participation in this study: http://survey.edm.uhasselt.be/index.php/934368/lang-en
Hello, Thank you everyone for completing the survey on privacy of digital photos. Tomorrow is the last day to fill in the survey. The gift draw winners will be contacted by November end. https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/7110BA381403B169.par
Best regards, Aqdas Malik Doctoral candidate, Aalto University, Finland
An academic research on the privacy of digital photos is being conducted by Strategic Usability Group, Aalto University, Finland. The main aim of this research is to understand the privacy practices, attitudes, and concerns of digital photo sharing by Social Media users. Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes. Your input is highly appreciated. Thank you for your valuable time. By completing the survey you get a chance to participate in the random draw: 10 gifts valuing 50 euros each.
First of all, we would like to thank those who have responded to our online survey so promptly. Second, we still need a few more responses so please help us if you would like to contribute to this study.
The link to the survey is below:
https://jfe.qualtrics.com/form/SV_b28oKeYKtD2nfpz
It will take approximately 7 minutes to complete and there will be also a prize draw for 5 Amazon vouchers with 10 pounds each.
We are trying to understand the difference between online communication and in-person communication in a business environment where people are often asked do work in an ad-hoc style. We would very much appreciate if you could help us complete this short survey below:
https://jfe.qualtrics.com/form/SV_b28oKeYKtD2nfpz
It will take approximately 7 minutes to complete and there will be also a prize draw for 5 Amazon vouchers with 10 pounds each.
We are currently looking for volunteers to participate in our study on Subjective Evaluation of Audio-Visual Correspondence. We would be grateful if you could participate. Volunteers in this study will be asked to perform a series of image-sound similarity and detection tasks. By participating in this study you will help us to investigate which auditory and visual features are the best correlates and which factors affect the perceived similarity between aural and visual structures. Further the results of the survey will be used to inform the mapping of an audio-visual interface for sound synthesis. The
**** Many apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call For Paper (CFP)****
*3rd International Conference on User Science and Engineering 2014 (i-USEr 2014)*
*Date*: 2nd September to 5th September 2014, *Venue*: Shah Alam, Malaysia.
This event is sponsored by Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Malaysia & technical co-sponsored by IEEE Malaysia Computer Chapter.
How happy are you as patient <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23patient>? Please take Patient Engagement<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23patientengagement> survey for chance at $200 gift card https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vWAY3W6boJir3JVTYSPrq22VbZnxaBqBs-4_03Vlf30/viewform?usp=send_form
Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM
Certificate in Digital Health Communication<http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/HCOM-Program/Certificate>enrolling for July 2014 Mobile Health Design<http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/HCOM-Program/Summer-Institute/Mobile-Health-Design> offered online May 21—June 18, 2014 6th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication<http://publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/HCOM-Program/Summer-Institute/Digital-Strategies-for-Health-Communication> offered July 20-25, 2014
Assistant Professor Tufts University School of Medicine Department of Public Health and Community Medicine<http://medicine.tufts.edu/Education/Academic-Departments/Clinical-Departments/Public-Health-and-Community-Medicine> 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111
Thank you everyone for completing the survey on Digital photo sharing. Still couple of more days to share your input as the survey will end on 18th April, 2014. Please fill in the survey if you haven't done it yet.
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ISCRAM-Med 2014: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean countries
http://irit.fr/ISCRAMMED2014 Conference Dates: Oct 15-17 2014 Toulouse France
OBJECTIVE AND TOPICS The aim of ISCRAM-Med is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The conference will focus on Mediterranean crises but remains open to crises in other areas and theoretical works. Topics include but are not limited to:
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to invite you to participate in a research study on human values http://probe.id.tue.nl/hvs/ for the design of interactive products. I am a PhD candidate in the department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Related to my research on value-driven design, I am conducting an online survey for finding similarities and differences of human values all over the world. For this, a variety of participants with different cultural backgrounds are needed. So you would help me very much if you could do this survey by yourself and then send it to
I am a PhD Student in the Web Ergonomics Lab <http://wel.cs.manchester.ac.uk/> at School of Computer Science at University of Manchester. My PhD research project is about identifying patterns in eyetracking data. As part of my PhD project, we are seeking eyetracking data. This data will mainly be used for testing purposes. If you have any dataset that meets the following requirements and would like to share with us, we would be grateful. If you are interested we would be also able to exchange our data with you.
Researchers from Aalto University, Finland are investigating the practices and motivations behind photo sharing activity. We would highly appreciate if you can participate to our study by filling in the online survey that will take approximately 4-5 minutes to complete. If you have any further questions relating to this research, please feel free to contact the researcher.
[Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to colleagues who may be interested]
Dear colleagues,
Brigham Young University has been engaged in researching the emotional effects of visual characteristics in typefaces. Our research activities relate to providing a systematic explanation for why specific typeface features have specific emotion responses. Research has focused on Roman typefaces and indicated a correlation between specific typeface features (variety vs. contrast vs. pattern) and specific emotional parameters (amusement vs. agitation vs. focus).
We have been doing some research into the inconsiderate use of email and collaborative software and we are exploring what people find good and bad about other people's electronic behaviour in a business context.
We have designed a short survey consisting of 14 questions and would be grateful if you could find the time to complete it for us at:
I am a volunteer at a local San Diego group, UX Speakeasy. If you are passing through San Diego and would like to present to a good crowd of UX professionals and decision makers, please let me know. Unfortunately, as we do not collect dues, we cannot offer you an honorarium - only a receptive audience.
This is a friendly reminder for the survey relating to professional practices of designers we are conducting as part of a European funded research project, COnCEPT (http://www.concept-fp7.eu). The COnCEPT project aims to develop a collaborative set of software tools designed to support professional design teams.
If you are involved in any type of design, please respond to our survey which should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Respondents of the survey can win a gift certificate and will be informed about the project as it develops.
We are currently conducting a study of search result browsing, in a gamified setting. We would like to invite you to participate in this click game:
http://zookst9.science.uva.nl:8002/
This game is developed by researchers from three different institutions, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, University of Glasgow, and University of Amasterdam, interested in making search systems better. In this game you can score points by selecting documents in a search interface.
*Special issue on Multimodal Interfaces for Natural Interactions *
*Call for Papers *
*Main submission deadline*: May 25th, 2014
*AIMS AND SCOPE *
Creativity and user interfaces become an application field of cutting edge technologies like human behavior tracking and understanding, social signal processing, artificial intelligence systems or embodied agents.
EAI Transactions on Creative Technologies aims in providing a forge between science, technology and human factors on one side, and creative industries on the other side naturally leading to the theme of this special issue: “where technology gets closer to the human being”.
As part of a European funded research project, COnCEPT (http://www.concept-fp7.eu), we are conducting a survey relating to professional practices of designers. The COnCEPT project aims to develop a collaborative set of software tools designed to support professional design teams.
If you are involved in any type of design, please respond to our survey which should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Respondents of the survey can win a gift certificate and will be informed about the project as it develops.
The Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) announces an open thematic issue on Affect Aware Ubiquitous Computing. * For more information on the thematic issue see the CFP attached or visit: http://www.jaise-journal.org/?q=content/thematic-issue-affect-aware-ubiquitous-computing. * For more information on the journal, please visit: http://www.jaise-journal.org/ .
Some facts & figures: * Submission deadline: January 26, 2014 * JAISE's Thomson Reuter's impact factor: 1.298 * For more information, contact one of the guest editors; see cc.
My name is Alex Stiver and I’m a PhD researcher in the Centre for Research in Computing (http://crc.open.ac.uk/) at The Open University (UK).
We are carrying out a three-year funded project related to online community and crowdfunding. Our research hopes to unearth knowledge not only about what makes crowdfunding projects successful financially, but also the nature of the relationship between crowdfunding projects and online community: how do the two impact each other across factors such as collaboration, networking, and feedback? How might various design elements across crowdfunding platforms impact engagement?
1st CALL FOR PAPERS (DRAFT) ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org · @WebSciConf Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014
Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences
The OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany, is conducting the "DOMS" (Don't Mind your Steps) study about activity analysis from low-cost consumer pedometers. For this study we are currently collecting sample data from selected devices. We provide an online tool for importing and annotating the data with activities such as walking, running, or cycling.
In the context of the research pursued by the Greta Team from CNRS-LTCI in Télécom ParisTech, we are conducting a study on attitudes of virtual characters. We need you!
Please participate in our online survey on donation behaviour to win a new Apple iPad Mini or a new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (as per winner's choice). The winner of the lucky draw will be contacted at the end of the study.
This survey is organised by the University of Oulu in Finland, and may take you between 5-10 minutes to complete. Your responses are confidential, and only averaged results will be used for future publication purposes.
We would like to announce DOBBS, the DERI Online Browsing Behavior Study - http://dobbs.deri.ie/, which is a research tool for understanding the browsing behavior of Web users, e.g., how often they visit a website, how they use their browser, etc. DOBBS is an easy to install add-on for the Firefox and Chrome that keeps track of a user's browsing behavior in a completely anonymous and privacy-preserving way. The collected data will be provided as a public dataset for research purposes.
Firstly thanks to all those who took part in the gamification questionnaire that my student Fan Gao organised recently, the response was far better than we had expected. If you are interested in taking part in the next stage of her studies please see the email below...
Dear All,
You are kindly invited to take part in the testing process of the application "Diet Recorder" which is also the final part of my master thesis. If you have time, could you please join in the one week trial?
A student of mine is looking for some people to complete a questionnaire on gamification and information disclosure. If you are interested in taking part please see the email below.
Kind regards,
Rod
Dr Rod McCall Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) The University of Luxembourg. web: www.securityandtrust.lu<http://www.securityandtrust.lu/> publications & blog: www.rodmc.com<http://www.rodmc.com/> twitter: rodlux
Back in April we contacted this group for volunteers to take part in a survey on mobile email use.
In appreciation for all those who shared their insights with us, we're giving back with this infographic that describes how people use email, particularly on phones.
www.sendjamail.com/emailsurvey2013.html
We hope you enjoy this summary of one of our research projects as much as we enjoyed doing it.
thanks for sharing your results, I really appreciate this. I'm replying to all because I think this might be important to some of the other readers.
There's one point in your infographic that is unclear to me, namely the "most commonly used email apps". There, you distinguish between "Native Mail App" and "Gmail App". However, if I use an Android device, I need a Google account (at least if I want to use the app store), and the only Email app installed by default is Gmail. Thus "Gmail App" and "Native Mail App" are actually the same on
Thank you for the question. That's a great observation.
The way the question was actually phrased in the survey asked if people used "Gmail - downloaded and installed" to clarify that distinction.
Thanks - Ryan
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Markus Nitsche <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Ryan, > > thanks for sharing your results, I really appreciate this. I'm replying to > all because I think this might be important to some of the other readers. > > There's one point in your infographic that is unclear to me, namely the > "most commonly
There's a fairly high margin of error just due to the fact that the definition of "native app" is subjective. Take the whole thing with a grain of salt (which isn't meant as a criticism: all such research needs to be evaluated relative to it's source and the data you're looking to extract from it.)
Our experiment is about Twitter. By participating in our experiment, you will find out how you perceive the content of tweets. Do you have a special view on them (= lonesome wolf) or do you perceive them like everyone else (= lemming). At the same time, you will help our research about Twitter.
***** Apologies for multiple copies ***** You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Collective Behaviors and Networks", a one-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013. Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors. Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics: - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis. - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media. - Community detection and dynamic
In the context of the research pursued by the Greta Team from CNRS-LTCI in Télécom ParisTech, we are conducting a study on attitudes of virtual characters. We need you!
To participate, click on the following link: http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~ravenet/evalAnim/evalSocialAnim.html
Does anyone know where User Stories came from before they appeared in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained in 1999? Extremeprogramming.com mentions that the first XP project started 6 March 1996. Elsewhere Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham are implicated as the creators of XP but it is not clear at what point User Stories came about. (The rest of the world was pretty much use-case driven at that point!)
My name is Brian Grey and I am writing to invite you to take part in a research study about manipulating challenge in video games. This study is intended for persons 18 years of age or older and may take 30 minutes to complete. Participation involves playing four stages of a video game through your web browser. In between stages, we will ask you to make judgments about the challenge and enjoyment of the previous stage. We will also ask you a few demographic questions after completing gameplay. If you are at least 18 years of age and would like
Are you a professional, academic, or graduate student who frequently searches for and monitors information relating to your work or area of research? We are interested in your perceptions of the digital environments (e.g., websites, intranets) that you use and how these perceptions may be related to your personality traits and work environment.
Please take approximately 15 minutes of your time to respond to our survey. You will have the chance to enter your name in a draw for one of twenty $20 gift certificates for Amazon.ca.
We would like to invite you to participate in an online survey about web page segmentation and role detection of web page segments. This evaluation is carried out in the scope of eMine Project [1]. You will be asked to rate given segmentation results and assign roles to segments in a given page. Your answers will contribute to evaluate our segmentation algorithm and build a better knowledge base of roles.
I would like to invite you to participate in an online survey about game classification which I carry out in the scope of my PhD research. You will be asked questions about a computer (video or mobile) game of your choice and your answers will contribute to a better understanding of differences between games and to a more precise specification of game types.
Many studies have examined the general usability of websites. But what about websites whose primary audience is older adults? Do they follow published guidelines for designing websites for an older audience? To find out, Wiser Usability (http://WiserUsability.com) conducted a usability study of three websites of organizations that offer tours and cruises for older travelers. Nine women aged 55-80 participated in the study. For more information, please see: http://wiserusability.com/2012/12/21/corporate-websites-still-ignoring-customers-50/
I'm looking for best practices / examples on 'search within results' for a web application.
The specific questions I am looking at are: 1) Is it better to display two separate search boxes or use one box to search and then search within results? 2) If two boxes are used, what ways can they be visually differentiated? 3) Once a search within results is done, how does one get back to the original search results?
Also should have added - The high level search results are a list of technical terms listed in an accumulator. A 'search within results' function is required since this list could be very lengthy.
From: Devika Ganapathy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December, 2012 11:26 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: best practices for search within results
Hi everybody,
I'm looking for best practices / examples on 'search within results' for a web application.
I like the way Eudora handles this. After your search, In the search results window is a checkbox for "Search results." You simply check the box and enter a new term in the original search field. Perhaps "Search these results" would be more clear.
1. One active box, to avoid having to label, explain, error, etc.
On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Susan Farrell wrote: > > Note that Google accomplishes this search-within trick by simply adding term 2 to term 1 in the search box. If that would work for your search engine, you could teach users to do this by showing them the query string in the first box as it is altered to use the second term. They could widen their search by deleting any operator and the second (or third, etc.) term.
The latest MIL STD 1472G includes touch screens - see
MIL-STD-1472G Department of Defense Design Criteria Standard Human Engineering 11 January 2012<http://www.amazon.com/MIL-STD-1472G-Department-Criteria-Standard-Engineering/dp/1478264071/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_-hpVqb0S2Z8CS_tt>
by United States Government Government Department of Defense
Michele Marut
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Kursat Cagiltay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello, > I am looking for HCI standards/guidelines for military domain . > I am already aware of some guidelines/standards like : > > http://www.deepsloweasy.com/**HFE%20resources/Army%20WS-HCI%** > 20Style%20Guide%201999.pdf<http://www.deepsloweasy.com/HFE%20resources/Army%20WS-HCI%20Style%20Guide%201999.pdf> > http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/**fulltext/u2/a210382.pdf<http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a210382.pdf> > > But, I need more formal (like ISO or MIL-STD ) and upto date > standards/guidelines. I especially need them for touch based interaction >
My colleague Kate Finn and I, who a year ago co-founded Wiser Usability, Inc (http://WiserUsability.com) to focus on Web accessibility and usability for seniors, would like the CHI-Web community's input on three questions. I will collect the replies and post a summary, so please reply off-list.
1. Do you know of websites that specifically target older adults? We mean besides the obvious ones: AARP.org, SeniorNet.org, etc. We've found that a segment of the travel industry targets seniors (e.g., RoadScholar.org, GrandCircleTravel.com, GrandEuropeanTours.com), but would like to know if there are other industry segments that do the same.
Besides the Web Form Design best practices by Luke Wroblewski, has anyone come across any robust guidelines / standards specific to B-B application forms?
Thank you!
Devika Ganapathy
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Design Research + Usability Consulting and Training
We are carrying out a one-year funded project related to the impact of online communities on the well-being and quality of life of people aged over 65 years. Age UK in Milton Keynes (where our university is based) is one of the external advisors on this project.
We were wondering if colleagues who may have had the experiences of interacting with and helping their parents or grandparents, relatives, neighbours, acquaintances or friends in joining online communities such as Facebook, or online discussion forums, or Twitter, and so on would be willing to share their stories and anecdotes with
Perhaps one of the things you might want to study in your project is the invisibility of those over 65 in online communities.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:05 AM, S.Minocha <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear colleagues: > > We are carrying out a one-year funded project related to the impact of > online communities on the well-being and quality of life of people aged > over 65 years. Age UK in Milton Keynes (where our university is based) is > one of the external advisors on this project. > > We were wondering if colleagues who may have had
I'm conducting the last of my dissertation research and needed people in our field who have experience using the Microsoft Product Reaction Cards tool or desirability kit to take my last study. It should take about 30 minutes to complete. If you know anyone else who has used the tool and might want to participate, please free to forward this email. If you could complete the study by Friday, that would be great!
Global Game Jam Research Committee Call for Proposals 2013
Academics, game industry professionals and enthusiasts, students, and all involved and/or interested in computer games are invited to submit research proposals to the Global Game Jam Research Committee.
The Global Game Jam (GGJ, http://globalgamejam.org/) is the world’s largest game development activity (“game jam”). Every year since 2009 thousands of computer game enthusiasts participate in this 48-hour challenge to make games around the same theme. The event provides a unique opportunity to study and understand people, processes, and products; the three P’s of game development to explore innovation, collaboration and experimentation. The
I'm writing to you on the recommendation of Dr Shailey Minocha: I'm a PhD student looking for participants for my research and I asked for her suggestions for mailing lists where my project would be of interest to readers.
I am looking for people to take part in an online experiment where you will be looking at pictures of faces, rating them on different scales and using ‘drag and drop’ to put them into different categories. In my pilot studies it took around 15 minutes to complete.
We are programming a tool for more interaction in the lecture hall. To participate, students use their Smartphone, iPad, NoteBook, etc. For identification a new token for each lecture is presented by the teacher on the front screen. Students then have to enter this token in their device. For security reasons the token shall have a variability of at least 1 in one hundred million. We have three types of token in mind. For each token spaces are included for better visualization, which need not to be entered. Letters are NOT case-sensitive, too.
I have a Web design problem and would like to know if there is a good solution.
I'll use medicine as a domain to illustrate the problem (although medicine isn't the domain in which I am working):
Assume a medical Web app has a page that lists patients. Each patient has several attributes, so the list of patients is displayed as a table. One attribute for each patient is meds the patient is taking. That itself is a list of varying length.
Paola Kathuria wrote: >I think more information is required before an answer can be given. > >1) Is the main purpose of the app for >- display? (what meds is patient X taking?) >- editing? (add/remove/edit meds for patient X)
The app will do both.
>2) Do you always want to list meds by patient or will you want to >list patients by med?
It seems to me two tables not only one, since the meds vary in length from one patient to another (it is a many to many relationship). In that case, i would suggest dividing your table into two tables: Patient and Meds.
Jeff Johnson wrote: > > CHI-Web colleagues, > > I have a Web design problem and would like to know if there is a good > solution. > > I'll use medicine as a domain to illustrate the problem (although > medicine isn't the domain in which I am working): > > Assume a medical Web app has
Hi Jeff It might be worth you having a look at some of the guidance documents in the NHS Microsoft Joint Common User Interface Program particularly look at the medication section.
The same information is held in two locations (Microsoft and NHS) but has different branding.
Probably the meds list can be extended as third dimension of the table. It means now the table will not be in two dimension but in three dimension (cube) and this third dimension will be the top surface of the cube. Thus all info (including meds sub-list) can be visualized (and further could be edited) in the form of a cube structure.
If I've understood your problem correctly, I suggest hierarchical table/ grid as a design pattern solution to it. Here is a link to it: http://download.oracle.com/tech/blaf/specs/hgrid.html
Are you of Mexican heritage and bilingual in English and Spanish? Are you 18 years old or older?
I'm conducting research for my dissertation, and I need 90 US Hispanic participants who are bilingual in English and Spanish and have a Mexican Heritage. The online study takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete depending on your speed. To compensate you for your time and efforts, you will receive a $15.00 Amazon gift card once you have completed the online study. To determine If you qualify, please complete this 5 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeneralImpressions. Qualification for this online study
Are you over 18 years old and have an account on Facebook or Google+? You could earn $50 for only 10 minutes of your time!
We are studying people’s role in online communities. We are looking for subjects to participate in our study. You may be asked to answer a questionnaire about you and your friends. You will be asked to provide your email address to be included in a lottery drawing for 10 $50 gift cards. The study will take approximately 10 minutes.****
My name is Ivo Santos and I’m doing a dissertation the goal of which is to understand how Personas and Scenarios described in literature are applied by practitioners and researchers. The following questionnaire will enable me to deepen my understanding of this subject. Therefore your participation is extremely valuable to me. This questionnaire should only take you 10 minutes. If you are available, please follow this link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dC1QeFJ2MVZ5b2ZIVWZnbkhEV19tVkE6MQ#gid=0
We're studying how people use query operators when searching the Web. For instance, a user issuing the query "+Tuscany research grants^50" wants documents containing "Tuscany", which potentially deal with "grants" (preferably) and "research".
The survey takes 15 to 20 minutes depending on your speed.
You may contribute to this study by clicking on this link:
I'm conducting research for my dissertation and I need as many bilingual participants as I can get. This is one of 3 studies in addition to pre-dissertation research that will allow me to create an Spanish version of the Microsoft Product Reaction Cards tool originally developed by Microsoft researchers Joey Benedek and Trish Miner.
We’re interested in people limiting their Facebook usage in some way, including deactivating their account or leaving. The only requirement to participate in this study is that you are a legal adult (18 years of age or older). Please click on the link below to answer a few questions. Thanks!
Dear all, Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. PRO-VE’12 – 13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (1-3 October 2012 - Bournemouth, UK) CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS APPLIED DEVELOPMENTS & INDUSTRY TRACK SESSION Applied Developments and Industry-based extended abstracts are welcome for possible presentation at PRO-VE'12 conference. Accepted submissions will provide distinguished showcases of current and emerging Collaborative Networks forms in different industrial domains and application environments. The Applied Developments and Industry call for extended abstracts aims to attract contributions from industry related to practical developments on Collaborative
Please forward and distribute widely (apologies for cross-posting). Twitter-friendly link: http://bit.ly/Kv0zLq
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Are you a political junkie? Addicted to the news? Is your browser's homepage the New York Times or Wall Street Journal? Or maybe it's the National Review Online or the Huffington Post? Ever wanted a deeper look at what's being said between the lines?
Hello All, Some time ago, I remember reading a webpage about ten evidence-based heuristics that are an improved version of the ten Nielsen heuristics. I remember that the webpage had both the original heuristics and the improved ones listed on it, but I can't seem to find it any more. Does anyone by chance have the URL for this? Best, Chris Martin
> Hello All, > Some time ago, I remember reading a webpage about ten evidence-based > heuristics that are an improved version of the ten Nielsen heuristics. I > remember that the webpage had both the original heuristics and the improved > ones listed on it, but I can't seem to find it any more. Does anyone by > chance have the URL for this? Best,
Yes that is precisely what I was looking for. Thanks!
-Chris
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jeff Wilbur <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Maybe you were thinking of Gerhart-Powals? HFI mentioned her work in a newsletter at http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/may99.asp > > Jeff > >
What's funny is that I was a test participant in Jill's research at Drexel when I was a new grad student there. It was quite an interesting experiment. I wonder what she's doing now. Elisa Elisa Miller [log in to unmask] 214-681-9888 (cell) "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. " Goethe ________________________________ From: Jeff Wilbur <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: Re: Ten *better* heuristics for heuristic evaluation Maybe you were thinking of Gerhart-Powals? HFI mentioned her work in a newsletter at http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/may99.asp Jeff
Michigan State University is conducting a brief online survey of potential designs for a mobile phone application that will allow visitors to find information about recreation activities at Corps of Engineers' lakes. You can help us by filling it out at http://bit.ly/MSU_Lakes. The project overview is on: http://bit.ly/MSU_Lakes_Overview.
Thanks, Sarah
Sarah J. Swierenga, PhD, CPE Director, Usability/Accessibility Research and Consulting (UARC) Michigan State University 517-353-8977 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] usability.msu.edu
Hi Everyone, Please see the following CFP detail if you are interested (sorry for the cross-posting). CALL for PAPERSPRO-VE’12 13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual EnterprisesBournemouth, UK, 1-3 October 2012 Important datesMain conference:Full paper submission: 15 Apr 2012Acceptance notice: 10 May 2012Camera ready submission: 31 May 2012 Applied developments/Industry track:Short abstracts submission: 17 Jun 2012Extended abstracts submission: 31 Jul 2012 Collaborative Networks in the Internet of ServicesRecent developments under the umbrella of Future Internet offer new concepts and mechanisms to support a new generation of advanced collaborative networks. Particularly relevant is the consolidation of the Internet of Services and its
As part of my PhD thesis, I am collecting responses to a questionnaire survey on User eXperience. More than 100 Usability/UX researchers and practitioners have already been invited to perform this exercise and most of them agree on the fact that there is still a definite need for a standardized definition of the term UX.
Hi - I'd like to be able to share UI designs with my client via an online community. I'd be looking for something very simple, secure, reasonably priced, and cloud-based. I'd post screen shots, UML diagrams, stories, etc and the client team needs to have the ability to comment and post their own stuff. WIKI capability would be great.
Here is a similar question and answer I posted a while ago. It focuses on graphic deliverables, but some of the tools may work for what you want:
QUESTION: Looking for a better way for clients to review and comment on our work online
I’m envisioning a chat tool that would allow me to do the following: • Display a Web page, graphic, or Flash animation on the Web. • Allow a client to visually highlight part of it. • Create a chat thread associated with the highlighted area. • Support multiple chat threads for different highlighted areas.
VIGTA 2012 – First International Workshop on Visual Interfaces for Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Applications
Workshop at AVI2012 - Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012 http://vigta2012.dieei.unict.it/
Overview ======== The importance of having image/video database containing high quality ground truth annotations generated by humans for a variety of computer vision applications is recognized by the whole machine vision community. Indeed, one of the most significant efforts during the evaluation process is represented by the development of accurate truth and comparing this truth to the decision of image and video processing applications. For example, datasets with ground truth labels are necessary
One of the many nice aspects of Wikipedia is that its articles typically contain various links to related articles. But which related articles are most relevant?
A PhD student of mine, Ricardo Kawase, tries to find this out with a short evaluation. If you have 10 to 15 minutes to spare, it would be great if you could participate.
I'm searching for works/projects involving automatic generation of web or GUI interfaces from specifications/schema of data types or database structure and would be grateful for any pointers or links you might be able to share. I'm looking for things such as iTask (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2050135.2050145) or SUPPLE (http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/supple/). If there is a better HCI forum where I could direct my query, I would be appreciate knowing about it as well.
For many people, December is a month of giving and receiving presents. Online stores such as Amazon help you to find the right presents by recommending you items that you might like.
We would like to find out what you think of these recommendations. If you have an Amazon account, please participate in this survey. It doesn't take long (about 15 minutes), it's actually quite fun and you might learn some new things.
(Apologies if you receive more than one of these.)
Some of you did a card sort for me a couple of months back. The results have been used in an article that is currently with the editor, so hopefully it will be available early next year.
In the meantime, I have another project on the same lines (fruit and vegetables) but it's a little bit longer. It should still only take between 10 and 15 minutes. Also, for reasons I cannot go into just yet, there are some very specific instructions (these are repeated on the web site):
I would like to invite you to participate in our anonymous survey about video games and their attributes. This survey is part of a research study hosted at DePaul University to determine a framework for video games intrapersonal attributes. This is a follow up survey from a previous one done two months ago. The attributes we are most concerned with are challenge, control and goals. This survey in particular would help us map those attributes to different game genres. Please only respond if you are at least 18 years old and an experienced video games player.
In The Netherlands, at the Design for Usability project, we are developing a User Centred Design Method Exploration Tool <http://www.uselog.com/2011/11/realizing-ucd-method-exploration-tool.html> . This tool is an online platform where user-centered design professionals can explore and compare UCD methods in a fast an visual way. Detailed information about each method is available, aimed at the execution of the method.
I am currently researching user experience for e-Commerce websites. I have developed a survey related to IKEA's website and would like to invite you to take part in it. All data will be processed anonymously and remain completely confidential. As the data are critical for me to proceed to the next phase of my research work, your prompt responses to the survey will be urgently needed and highly appreciated.
Hello - Thanks to the people who responded to my request yesterday for a consultant who has worked with 508 compliance as it relates to the elderly population. I have forwarded your messages to my friend who has this need.
Here are the referrals folks sent:
From: Heather Hedden [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Hedden Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:44 AM To: Kay Corry Aubrey Subject: Re: seeking referral for usability person with expertise in 508 compliance for elderly
We are researching the interoperation of software development and software localization with regards to its impact on effort and quality in actual software products. Among others, we're looking at how different roles shape the localization of a product. For example, what preconceptions and competences do UI experts bring to software localisation? To this end, we're looking for participants willing to complete a 20 minute survey. Participants should have worked on international/localised software in an active role, e.g. software engineers, user interface designers, project managers, translators etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free
Hi - Can anyone on the list please recommend a usability consultant who has expertise in 508 compliance for the elderly? Please send me their name and contact info.
Thanks,
Kay
Kay Corry Aubrey, user-centered research and design
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Dear UX fellow, an UX market impact survey has been launched. The purpose of the survey is to understand better applied user experience practices in the product development industry.
The survey is targeted for people in an UX leadership position or another leadership position, overlooking user experience activities. It takes about 10 minutes to complete the survey.
I would love to hear what you think about mobile platforms, app stores, mobile analytics, and the challenges of mobile application development. I’m a Senior Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, which provides research and advice to over 23,000 IT leaders, including C-level execs at companies like Adobe, RIM, Microsoft, and FedEx. We are launching a global study on mobile app dev and are interviewing a small group of developers to get things started.
I agree with you, but would be interested in any studies done on user comprehension of the two. The Portable Document Format isn't unique to Adobe. (And they call it "Adobe Reader" now, not "Acrobat".)
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Skot Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Any thoughts or strong preferences? I'm inclined to the latter in a search context, but could be swayed. > > (I view PDF files but I don't use Acrobat, making the former technically incorrect.) > > Cue the crickets... > -- > Skot Nelson > [log in to unmask] > http://www.penguinstorm.com/ > > twitter.
"PDF file" or "PDF document" is the correct terminology. The Adobe Acrobat software application allows people to create PDF files/documents and PDF forms. I've never heard of an "Acrobat file" and I work at Adobe Systems. :-)
--Deb Galdes Experience Design Research, Enterprise Systems [log in to unmask]
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Skot Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Any thoughts or strong preferences? I'm inclined to the latter in a search context, but could be swayed. > > (I view PDF files but I don't use Acrobat, making the former > technically incorrect.) > > Cue the crickets...
Heh. Thanks Deborah (and all else who responded.) It seems that my company is going to continue to use "Acrobat file" despite the fact that *everybody* on two lists has agreed with you (and my personal feeling) that "PDF file" is the right way to go!
You had asked what people use if not Acrobat, to read PDFs. If you are on a Mac, then for simple viewing Preview is actually preferred because it loads fast and you can print from it as well. As for the naming convention, it's a PDF document, not an Acrobat document. Since PDFs can be produced and opened by more than just Acrobat software, this is far more accurate. I've been producing web sites and applications for over 15 years and this is the first I've ever heard a PDF referred to as an Acrobat document. Sorry, but it sounds
Not to incite an argument here with James and Deborah, but to make Skot sound like he's talking nonsense is not taking into account how many non-techy-savvy people may understand PDFs on the Web.
The PDF format was indeed created by Adobe, and the most popular program for viewing PDFs is/was Acrobat Reader (now renamed by Adobe to remove the Acrobat name). Mmany sites still say you need to "download adobe acrobat/reader to view PDFs". So many users can easily link the words PDF, Adobe, and Acrobat together. It's similar to how people don't talk about DOC files, they
I didn't get the impression they thought I was taking nonsense, but I appreciate the vigorous defence.
I do think there was a time when PDF was synonymous with Acrobat...I think that time has long passed.
I don't think that's happened yet with Word files. Perhaps if Openoffice is adopted more widely one day we'll refer to them as word processing documents, but for now there's a pretty close correlation.
Not to open up a can of worms... but another option might be to use the pdf or acrobat symbol instead of a text-based label. I'm not a fan of gratuitous icon use, but in this case, using the icon can be helpful to users as it can be recognized, and does not need to be conventionally read.
The Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction,
Hello. I would like to describe, for purposes of discussion, five multimedia user interface ideas. These ideas can enhance both media player software and web browser software as HTML5 includes both audio and video.
The first idea is the capability to select multimedia content and to have an extensible context menu available for those selections. Two types of selection possible for video are spatial and temporal. Spatial selection involves rectangles of video. Temporal selection involves intervals of the multimedia object. It is desired to be able to select
Hello - Gareth Williams has posted a new picture of his DIY assembly to capture video during mobile usability studies http://gwdesign.tumblr.com/post/5019128889/making-an-aluminum-mobile-device- camera-sled . He has pictures for both smartphone and tablet setups.
This is a great site for people who are a bit handy because purchasing a manufactured sled + camera assembly that clips on to a mobile device is costly. Judy Keeley (www.judykeeley.com) has posted the PPT of a presentation she gave at a recent Boston UPA conference on how she set up a mobile study. In the presentation she has several slides on the pros and cons of
Here is another innovative DIY solution. This incorporates two cameras: one on the device, the other on the user's face. Clever and inexpensive. http://www.slideshare.net/beleniq/diy-mobile-usability-testing-ia-summit-2011 /avi
On 2011-06-02, at 7:32 AM, Kay Corry Aubrey wrote:
> Hello - Gareth Williams has posted a new picture of his DIY assembly to > capture video during mobile usability studies > http://gwdesign.tumblr.com/post/5019128889/making-an-aluminum-mobile-device- > camera-sled . He has pictures for both smartphone and tablet setups. > > This is a great site for people who are a bit handy because purchasing a > manufactured sled + camera assembly that clips on to a mobile
Hi - Note Kat's recommendation to visit Gareth William's blog ww.90percentofeverything.com. This is a great site for people who are a bit handy because purchasing a manufactured sled + camera assembly that clips on to a mobile device is costly. Judy Keeley (www.judykeeley.com) has posted the PPT of a presentation she gave at a recent Boston UPA conference on how she set up a mobile study. In the presentation she has several slides on the pros and cons of the 3 common approaches: head mounted camera, stationary camera, and attaching the camera to the device.
Hi - I am in the process of purchasing a camera that I can use for mobile device usability studies. It needs to work with Morae. What I want is a camera that can catch the user's hand and finger movements over a mobile phone and tablet as they are seated in a couch or other natural setting. I'd like the user to be able to move freely so it might be necessary to purchase a camera that attaches to the device.
I don't know if it would be fit for purpose or work with Morae but my husband purchased a very small and mobile video camera that was very cheap. It can even mounted it on the side of his head when we went skiing (it is that small). I don't see why it wouldn't work with Morae as it connects with USB. Might be good as so small and light and easy to attached to things.
Hi, here's a pretty great guide and discussion by Harry Brignull on how to use a regular webcam and make a sled to hold it to record a mobile testing session in close-up (and there are notes on using Morae with it).
In my experience a test run is a very good idea, just to ensure camera can focus at such close proximity and check lighting and reflection on the screen in the environment in which you are testing.
Do you blog about your illness or do you know someone who does? Please help my student, Pam Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, and me better understand patient blogging by participating in a short online survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TuftsPatientBloggingSurvey.
Please forward the survey link to your friends and colleagues.
Thanks, Lisa --- Lisa Gualtieri, PhD
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Thanks Skot and Stephanie. Others have suggested Adobe Acrobat web conferencing (https://acrobat.com/welcome.html). I should clarify that I need something that supports asynchronous communication, meaning designer and client need not be online at the same time. Therefore I don't think conferencing solutions like WebEX or GoToMeeting will work, unless they have asynchronous functionality that I'm unaware of.
OK, so I've reviewed a bunch of online meeting products (Adobe Acrobat web conferencing, WebEX, GoToMeeting, Mikogo, beamyourscreen). None seem to offer asynchronous communication. AxShare seems to be only for Azure documents, so that won't work. 37signals is a good start but only allows you to upload a graphics while facilitating a group chat. There is no way to highlight an area of the graphic and link that to a chat thread. I'll keep looking and please let me know of any other leads. Some sort of Skype plugin would be another option, but I don't see one that meets
Have you considered using Notable app - http://www.notableapp.com/ ? I used it to annotate screenshots and share with me team and start a comment thread.
- Michele Marut
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Howard Kiewe (KC) < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> OK, so I've reviewed a bunch of online meeting products (Adobe Acrobat web > conferencing, WebEX, GoToMeeting, Mikogo, beamyourscreen). None seem to > offer asynchronous communication. AxShare seems to be only for Azure > documents, so that won't work. 37signals is a good start but only allows > you > to upload a graphics while
Have you looked at Rapid Intake's Review? (http://www.rapidintake.com/products/review/elearning-course-review-and-qual ity-assurance-testing-management-rapid-intake-review/) It's an e-learning review system. Might work for your purposes (I am looking at it for similar purposes of mine). There are many of us who could use something similar. So if you find something, pls share.
Patti
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As I have been hitting the job interview circuit, I have noticed that more and more I am being asked questions about how to entice the user to do something or perform an action. My typical answer is that you can't force them to do anything, and that many of the things you might consider have been sullied by web advertisers and actually can lead to banner blindness. I keep thinking, listen there is no silver bullet, give the user a good reason to do something and they will find a way to do it.
I think you're right--that there is no silver bullet to enticing users. However, you are interviewing for a job, and so your task is to convince prospective employers that you (and you alone) have all the right answers. I do not suggest lying to give them the answer that they want. But here are a couple of ways that question could be answered
Actually, marketing (and other fields, such as mine) specifically aim to get people to perceive and attend to certain things in order to influence them so this isn't too far-fetched. Support for these approaches comes from perception, attention, and memory research.
A few of the mass market books related to this topic:
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (2008), Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Al Switzler, McGraw-Hill. Influence: Science and Practice (2009), Robert B. Cialdini, Pearson Education, Inc. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), Chip Health and Dan Heath, Random House. Yes!: 50
It could be something as simple as explaining the concept of an Invitation design pattern, such as a tooltip ( http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/richinteraction/invitation/). Some sort of interaction that gives the user a clue as to what will happen when they take action, thereby hopefully encouraging them to take some action.
~stephanie
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Patti Shank, PhD, CPT < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It could be something as simple as explaining the concept of an Invitation > design pattern, such as a tooltip ( > http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/richinteraction/invitation/).
Going slightly off at a tangent, but interestingly, most of those patterns are virtually useless on the increasingly-popular medium of touchscreens, where 'hovering' isn't an option. Are there any emerging frontrunners for touchscreen equivalents?
A group of graduate students from IIT Institute of Design designed a tool kit (flash cards) that tie behavioral economics with design strategies and problem solving.
You can download their toolkit from here: http://www.brainsbehavioranddesign.com/kit.html
I personally find these reference cards and worksheets helpful and handy. They remind you of the basic principles behind different design decisions we make. For example, the principle of ownership indicates that 'Me' and 'Mine' make things extra valuable. Therefore one of the strategies associated to it is 'Align the desired outcome with the users' identity.'
With all due respect Andrew, I think this is an awful way to approach an interview.
If the interviewer is looking for something specific and you fudge your answer, you're likely to get caught. Or worse, you'll get a job that you're not equipped to handle and you'll get caught. Developing a reputation as a fraud is not a good way to advance your career.
You're absolutely right that one should not try to lie or manipulate an interviewer. And I specifically advocated against misrepresenting oneself in post. I may not have stated that as clearly as I had intended.
The original post asked two questions. First, is there a magic bullet solution that applies in all situations for all users? And second, how do you answer that question when it's clear that the interviewer is looking for the answer life, the universe, and everything.
-----Original Message----- From: ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors (Open Discussion) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cathy Lu Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:02 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Ways to entice users
A group of graduate students from IIT Institute of Design designed a tool kit (flash cards) that tie behavioral economics with design strategies and problem solving.
A friend who is a webmaster for several sites, some for-profit and some non-profit, asked me the following question:
"Questions come up about a particular area of UX in our case -- the optimal balance of content vs advertising elements in the design of a web page. If advertising runs the show, we risk cheapening the value of our content and brand; if content runs the show, advertising complains about lost revenue opportunities. I'm hoping there might be some best practice guidelines available from content providers who've fought these battles recently? Would appreciate any pointers you can offer."
From my days in the past working at newspapers and magazines, it was constantly a struggle in the balance of advertising and content, and judgment calls had to me made based on experience. We maintained that while the content had to be superior in every case, advertising would get placement in such a way to be best noticed. If the copy and the ads were both clearly distinguished, in the way the page was divided, it was said to serve both better the advertising and editorial goals. Some magazines succeed by placing several pages of ads up front (or in
I have less experience in this matter than Michael Kay, but wanted to to say I completely agree with his analysis. While its hard to tell advertisers, since they are the paying customer, what to do, high standards for ads does make a real difference both in the success of the ad and the relationship of the customer.
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The GiveALink.org research project invites you to play two fun games while at the same time contributing to the study of online tagging behavior. One game, Great Minds Think Alike, is about to be released on the iPhone platform: please check this website in the near future:
Adam Korman has sent me some useful links to mega and cascading menus:
- http://designm.ag/inspiration/mega-menus/ - www.ibm.com/us/en/sandbox/ver2/ (this is what I was directed to when I just went to www.ibm.com) - www.hp.com ... not really cascading flyouts (they have a tree/accordion style menu that appears within a drop-down). This seems like its own, all new category of bad. - www.alienware.com (in the products menu) - www.cyberpowerpc.com ... another whole new category of bad cascading menus - www.sony.com ... another unconventional implementation of cascading menus - www.fujitsu.com/global/ ... this may be the worst one, with flyouts inside a mega menu (under
I asked list members if they had any favourite examples of web sites using cascading menus (multi-level fly-outs made popular by Windows XP).
I had only one relevant suggestion - www.ishares.com - but it's worth a look. The menus aren't as deeply nested as some, but it's still a challenge to navigate (once you get past the friendly entry screen).
If you have good examples of web sites with long and difficult-to-use cascading menus, please send them directly to me. I will compile the responses and post a summary to the list.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi - Although I am not a usability expert I have worked on web sites for over 15 years and I have learned much from this group. I have a question I was hoping the group might have some insight on or perhaps even point me to a white paper or literature on the topic.
I think that this is actually more of a traffic analysis and landing page optimization issue then a strict usability issue - although usability problems are one potential cause of the drop in conversions - and there is no simple answer.
Fundamentally, there is no reason why an increase in traffic should cause a drop in conversions. What really matters is the source of your traffic and how they engage with your site when they arrive. It sounds like you have increased traffic while also making some changes to the site, and teasing apart the effect of each factor
A careful analysis of your site's web-analytics will help you find the answer. Although there will be broad industry-level metric but each website is very different from another when looked in detail.
I would investigate it as follows:
1. What does increased traffic mean? Increased page views or increased unique visitors? What's going on?
2. It's possible that the redesign has added more pages e.g. confirmation message on a new page as opposed to on the same page, thank you pages etc.
Hi Bill I send you this conversation in an Adwords forum, with the same problem. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=07b390fe3c17e7a0&hl=en
Hope it helps you,
Luz.
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Hi - Although I am not a usability expert I have worked on web sites for over 15 years and I have learned much from this group. I have a question I was hoping the group might have some insight on or perhaps even point me to a white paper or literature on the topic.
I am conducting research to assess my new methodology for website design "Participative Methodology for Marketing Websites". This Methodology was developed during my PhD research. Your assistance in this research would be greatly appreciated and would assist in the success of its findings. My Post-Doctoral Survey will take up to 25 minutes to complete.
Hi - A few weeks back I posted this message to the people on the list:
ORIGINAL QUESTION
Hi - Can anyone suggest complex publically-available applications that are designed to encourage users to learn through exploration? Many feature-rich applications use a hierarchical navigation, with a whole universe of functionality under one menu item. I'm looking for products that are designed so savvy users can go directly to the function they need, while providing novice and intermediate users an opportunity to learn the product (and often the domain). An example that comes to my mind is Turbo Tax. Can you suggest
Hi - Can anyone suggest complex publically-available applications that are designed to encourage users to learn through exploration? Many feature-rich applications use a hierarchical navigation, with a whole universe of functionality under one menu item. I'm looking for products that are designed so savvy users can go directly to the function they need, while providing novice and intermediate users an opportunity to learn the product (and often the domain). An example that comes to my mind is Turbo Tax. Can you suggest others?
Not sure about the 1st issue, but usability ROI has been a long term research topic - A quick search on scholar.google.com ("usability ROI") gives lots of references.
Best Gorkem
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> Hi, > > In his 1993 book, Usability Engineering, Jacob Nielsen reports that 48% of > the code is devoted to the user interface (page ix). > > In the same book, he reports some figures about cost savings from the use > of usability engineering methods on page 2. > > I need recent studies/findings/figures about these two issues. > > I'd appreciate
Now that UserVue is no longer available, does anyone have a suggestion for a tool to conduct remote usability studies? I am looking for something that
1. records the participants desktop and voice; I don't necessarily need the participants face 2. does not have excessive lag; this is an issue with WebEx 3. allows observers to observe in real time 4. allows chat between the facilitator and observers
At 12:18 PM 10/27/2010, Laurie Roshak wrote: >Now that UserVue is no longer available, does anyone have a suggestion for a >tool to conduct remote usability studies? I am looking for something that > > 1. records the participants desktop and voice; I don't necessarily need > the participants face > 2. does not have excessive lag; this is an issue with WebEx > 3. allows observers to observe in real time > 4. allows chat between the facilitator and observers
I am a graduate student at DePaul University. I am currently doing a research to understand usability practices in the corporate world(excluding consulting companies).
Also to understand your usability interests, and what are the key skills a new usability professional would need.
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Companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook constantly improve their products, based on the data that they collect from their users. Open-source software developers and researchers normally have no access to this data, which puts them into a disadvantage.
I think I missed this the first time around, and I didn't see a couple of things that are important--perhaps some of the tools mentioned address these issues.
There are two things I think of when doing A/B testing.
If you are not going to use large numbers of participants, you need a within subjects design for presenting the two approaches for comparison. As such, you must counterbalance the order of introduction of the two designs to control for learning effects. You don't want the learning from seeing one design to affect the other. So, half of the
Hi - can anyone on the Chi-web list suggest innovative usability test design approaches for A/B testing? Both A and B will be presented on the same screen and the user needs to peruse each and choose the one they prefer. I am looking for ideas on the best UIs to present text and pictures most effectively for this type of purpose and was wondering if folks on the list have suggestions.
Your proposed test is not what I think of as A/B testing. Our A/B testing is showing one or the other variant to the same user segment (usually in the live production environment) and watching which performs better.
Presenting on the same screen side by side is an attempt to not lead the participants? This seems to invite careful perusal of the differences, and that's usually not what we're going for. What we seek in the usability lab are the untutored, knee-jerk reactions that we can't anticipate. Inviting careful perusal invites participants to play "designer." Our team doesn't suffer
We recently did a study where we put three interface prototypes on the same page from top to bottom (as there was not enough real estate to put those side by side as well as making it clearly visible to the user) in a survey to ask the users to rank their preferences.
Our tool, Loop11 (www.Loop11.com) can and has been used for A/B testing by many of our customers before. We've also written a case study (http://bit.ly/dzmm93) that outlines how a project was set up by one of our customers. I also agree with Susan's response in which she suggests that inviting careful perusal of the differences doesn't encourage natural behaviour.
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Hi,
Would it be possible to forward the message below to your mailing list? It's an invitation to an online survey as part of my job at Politecnico di Torino, Italy?
Thanks for the replies to my original request (below).
The URLs I received were:
(from Tanya Lang at Peak Usability) http://www.racq.com.au/motoring/cars http://www.qld.gov.au/about/health-and-communities/community-services/ http://www.peakusability.com.au/services/design.html
-----Original Message----- From: ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors (Open Discussion) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Hudson Sent: 25 August 2010 10:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Collect & Summarize: Expanding tree navigation example wanted
I'm looking for a recent example of a web site with an expanding tree-style navigation in the left panel (typically with plus signs or arrows that rotate downwards when a heading is opened).
I'm looking for a recent example of a web site with an expanding tree-style navigation in the left panel (typically with plus signs or arrows that rotate downwards when a heading is opened).
If you know of one, please send me the URL directly. I will post a summary to the list.
*Call for proposals for Presenting Published Work* We are inviting presentations on the work that is relevant to the CHIMIT mission and topics, but has appeared in other venues. The goal is to give the CHIMIT attendees a broader view of the research in the areas related to the human and technical sides of managing the complexity of contemporary IT systems and to showcase the important developments of the recent years.
Thanks to everyone who took part in my Facebook quiz. There were over 300 responses. The full survey results are written up at http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/facebookstudy.htm but there is a brief summary below.
Some of you noticed that I did not include a Don't Know response in my questions. My thinking was that it was a very short questionnaire (only two questions warranted a Don't Know) and that I wanted respondents' best guesses rather than just an admission that they couldn't remember. Diana Kornbrot at the University of Hertfordshire UK suggested it would be
We are conducting a survey of UX/UCD professionals and students to discover what websites/online resources for UX/UCD information they find valuable. This information will help us with the design of a website to support the information needs of UX/UCD professionals.
The survey has 5 questions and show take 3-5 minutes to complete.
Do you use Morae, and do you capture keystrokes? What do you think about the fact that you're storing your participants' passwords in the video?
I've brought this up with TechSmith a couple of times, asking for an option to block keystroke capture in password fields. They've always said that because they can't guarantee to identify every password field, they don't do it -- they don't want us to think we're more protected than we are. I argue that they should alert us to this problem, but still offer the option. It's better to be protected most of the time
Here are the responses I received to a question I posted to this ListServ last week on how to broadcast live audio + video via Morae using an application sharing software such as WebEx, GoToMeeting, or AT&T Connect. My "net/net" is it seems possible to do this, but it isn't easy! I attempted some of these approaches, but was unsuccessful. Perhaps there was a problem with the wireless in the building where I was running my sessions, or maybe I need to purchase a higher-powered laptop that will run both Morae Observer + the application sharing product
Hi - I have heard that there is a way to broadcast live audio & video from Morae Observer using an application sharing product such as GoToMeeting. Has anyone been able to do this successfully? I can broadcast live video, but not the accompanying live audio. Hooking up a microphone to a speaker to capture the audio is not an option in this case.
I am conducting a usability review of a software testing application. One of the issues we identified in the application is the lack of syntax highlighting in the code view.
Does anyone know of any research or guidelines for syntax highlighting?
Send your replies to me and I will summarize for the list.
The 5th Int'l ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems
December 1 - 3, 2010 Boston, MA, USA
Technical cooperation with Create-Net, ACM SIGSIM and Springer
BIONETICS 2010 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in biological systems and leverage those understandings to build bio-inspired systems. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):
Thanks to everyone who helped and participated in this research study.
If you intended to participate, but have not yet done so, please consider this reminder (if you have participated, please excuse this email -- the questionnaire was anonymous, so I don't know who participated and who did not).
Your opinions as a web interface designer are important and valued. Your participation is voluntary, but I would be most grateful for your assistance in completing a web based questionnaire. The questionnaire takes roughly 15-20 minutes to complete. All of your responses will remain confidential.
I'm seeking help in a research study looking at the role of design guidelines and design trade-offs in the process of web interface design. I would be grateful if you could share your opinions and experiences in a web based questionnaire. The questionnaire takes roughly 15-20 minutes to complete. All of your responses will remain confidential.
I would like to hear the communities expierence in publishing in open- access or indexed HCI journals.
When it comes to decide in which journal one wants to submit a manuscript, I end up always having the trouble to decide between open- access or indexed journals. While I certainly like the idea of open access, I do not know a single HCI journal that is open access and still indexed in system like e.g. Scopus or ISI. For the scientific career it is crucial that you publish your works in important journals. Unfortunately this is often measured by Impact Factors
I am conducting a survey on mobile phone music players as part of a Master's thesis at the Department of Computer Sciences in the University of Tampere, Finland. If you are using your mobile phone to listen to music or radio, you are the right person to answer this online survey. It would be desirable that you answer the survey by Wednesday 9 June at https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/3444/lomake.html.
Hi - I have encountered a video issue with Morae video and was wondering if anyone on our list has run across something similar in your work with it. I am running usability tests on a device and need to use 2 video inputs (one trained on the participant's face and the other on their hands using the device).
Have you ever had to use 2 video inputs into Morae (as opposed to just one)? If so, do you know any tricks to make the main window video crisper? I started out using 2 Logitech 2MP web cams. The images are very
At CHI 2010 (http://www.chi2010.org), I will be moderating a panel on e-government, also known as online provision of government services. The panel title is "E-Government: Services for Everyone, Everywhere, Eventually". Panelists who have worked on e-government services will discuss obstacles that have delayed the wide-spread rollout of e-government, as well as success factors.
In my introduction, I want to briefly describe one or two examples of e-government failure, and one or two examples of success. I have some ideas for examples, but I would appreciate any suggestions from the CHI-Web crowd.
Has anyone done any research - or come across any - on auto-rotating content banners? I don't mean ad banners, I mean sites such as the White House ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/) and the many US government sites that replicate the feature (http://www.state.gov/ or http://www.nps.gov/). Generally, it's a large banner with a strong graphic image and a short header or descriptive text that links to a secondary page; the banner rotates through four or more options, and also allows users to click through the options.
I don't have any research to offer, but I do share your concern. That's why I design such banners with info that is inspiring rather than essential to the content. And I use cookies so that each time the user visits, he or she sees a different version of the banner. This is especially helpful on a site that doesn't update very frequently.
I'd question whether they're any more effective than "non-rotating" banners as well. People tend to scan past advertising. Does the rotation draw the eye back to the space, or just annoy?
On Aug-19-2010, at 09:10 , Nancy Brigham wrote:
> I don't have any research to offer, but I do share your concern. That's why I design such banners with info that is inspiring rather than essential to the content. And I use cookies so that each time the user visits, he or she sees a different version of the banner. This is especially helpful on a site that doesn't
> > Adam Guasch-Melendez wrote: >> Has anyone done any research - or come across any - on auto-rotating content >> banners? I don't mean ad banners, I mean sites such as the White House ( >> http://www.whitehouse.gov/) and the many US government sites that replicate >> the feature (http://www.state.gov/ or http://www.nps.gov/). Generally, it's >> a large banner with a strong graphic image and a short header or descriptive >> text that links to a secondary page; the banner rotates through four or more >> options, and also allows users to click through the options. >> >> Although the sites
I am a intern in WWW.BAIDU.COM of China, and we have some interesting information about the auto-rotating content banners.
Just look at TIEBA.BAIDU.COM, you can see the auto-rotating content banners on the top-left, we find such banners contribute very large number of pv in this index page, but the numerical switch button other than the first one didn't get much pv, that indicates the banner's rotating speed matters most to the effect of the banner.
Bill is spot on, Research in cognitive psychology shows that motion is given a higher cognitive premium than static images. If you are trying to grab attention then this is definitely a way to do it. While it cannot compensate if someone has scrolled down to below the fold so that the user cannot see the scrolling content. If you still have user and the content change is big enough, you should be able to redirect the users attention to the rotating element.
Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations for software products that allow you to store and manipulate affinity diagramming observations. These are wonderful ideas!
Kay
-----Original Message----- From: Jack Baty [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:59 PM To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: seeking "industrial strength" sticky-note/affinity diagramming software
Tinderbox seems like a good fit for what you're trying to do. http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox . Mac only though.
Hi - I am working on a user research project with over a dozen participants and we will be using affintity diagramming to make sense of the data. It looks like we may have over 1000 sticky notes by the time we are finished.
Can anyone suggest a software tool that can handle this number of observations, and allow us to easily maniupulate them?
I don't know of a software application designed specifically for what you seek, but here are two suggestions: 1) Your favorite spreadsheet (Excel, etc.) there are various ways to set them up to make this work 2) Card sorting tools. I have used Optimal Sort and found it to be quite easy to use. Not sure if it can handle 1000 items, and its not really for what you are looking for, but its close.
Tinderbox seems like a good fit for what you're trying to do. http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox . Mac only though.
Some examples in the Flickr gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/726362@N21/
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:31 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi - I am working on a user research project with over a dozen participants and we will be using affintity diagramming to make sense of the data. It looks like we may have over 1000 sticky notes by the time we are finished. > > Can anyone suggest a software tool that can handle this number of observations, and allow us to easily
Did you try Sticky Sorter? Not convinced it would be useful for 1000 notes, unless you have a REALLY large screen, but it would be worth looking at. It is an Office add-on
<http://www.labnol.org/software/create-affinity-diagrams-with-sticky-sorter/5465/> Robin
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:31 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi - I am working on a user research project with over a dozen participants > and we will be using affintity diagramming to make sense of the data. It > looks like we may have over 1000 sticky notes by the time we are finished. > > Can anyone suggest a software
We are the people behind OptimalSort. While it will technically handle 1000 item, your users will no doubt struggle. There is a physical constraint to the screen real estate available and 150 cards is close to this physical limit. Hae you considered if it's necessary to do 1000 all at the same time?
I'm wondering if anyone has a good way of displaying power point presentations on the web? Currently to view a presentation they have to click the link which prompts a download. The issue is that the client has now left the site and is in power point. I'm open to converting the PowerPoint to other formats
Most of my presentations are available on SlideShare. They convert your slide into a Flash format which you can embed in your own site, much the same way as you would a YouTube video. SlideShare also lets you record narration (a "SlideCast") for people who missed your original presentation.
SlideShare offers different privacy settings, so you can share your slides with others without worrying about the general public finding out about them.