CMT: 11th Feb ‘08
In today’s Current issues in Interaction design class, Paola asked us to think of questions that best describe the topics we have covered so far.
One after the other, we all contributed to the list of questions. We subsequently examined and discussed the topics and questions.
After we have looked at the previous topics, she then moved on to talk about safety critical systems referring to the papers she emailed to us on designing alarm systems, and a review of the different roles played by such devices. Also, we touched up on ethnographic study on how operators interpret the information provided by the alarm in the Nuclear Power Plant industry.
We particularly looked into the following papers: An analysis of problems with auditory alarms: Defining the roles of Alarms in process monitoring tasks. By Yan Xiao and F Jacob Seagull of University of Maryland School of medicine and University of Illinois at Urban-Champion respectively.
PDE: 15th Feb ‘08
We started quite early today, David started the day rolling with what he called Lead user innovation strategy-Ecology?
Andy and Bob engaged Dean on his project plan, they suggested ways he can approach his intended field study with a group of youth at the ZSL, and he also showed the team the two piece of hand-held PDA (personal digital assistant) from Orange™, and some intended replica ideas and photos.
I then told the class about the (forums) websites I have visited in the last week, and the pattern of questions/ problems experienced by the forum members, this will be apart of my requirement gathering for my project. The information’s I collate from the forums will help me narrow down and sharpen my project plan, and objective to a more realistic design target as will be seen in the next couple of weeks. I have started working on the story board and HTA- hierarchical task analysis- to be presented on the next session.
Halil and Dikshit had a joint presentation on the AR application; they showed some new discoveries regarding their projects.
Madushani invigorated her digital drum sequencers, and subsequently Anoi presented a screen shot of his EPG -Electronic Programme Guide for HD DTV (High Definition Digital Television).
