Reading Response assignment
For each of our two "non-traditional UI" days, your reading consists of two or three papers from the literature. You should read these papers carefully, and then write a short, 1/2 page (1-3 paragraphs, more or less) response to the papers collectively. In your response you should consider questions such as:
- How do the interfaces incorporate (or not) the principles we have discussed, such as visibility, affordances, Neilsen's heuristics, efficiency, simplicity/graphic design, etc.
- Does this new format incorporate any new challenges to the traditional User-Centric design we've discussed?
- How was the interface designed to include users (and how did the researchers include users in the design process?)
- How was the interface evaluated? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluation?
You do not have to address all of these questions in your response. These are meant to provide some ideas for thought. You do not have to spend much time writing your response (15 minutes should be plenty), but you should spend time thinking about your response as you read the papers. Your response will be graded for the quality of its thoughts, not on the quality of the writing, so do not spend time editing your writing--this is meant to be a rough piece to get down some good core ideas. In other words, don't let stress about how the writing is constructed interfere with your thought process.
These responses will be graded on a scale of 0-3 as follows:
- 0 = didn't do or clearly haven't read the articles
- 1 = shallow thinking, skimmed the articles but have not really thought about them
- 2 = intermediate thinking, read the articles and tied them back to some aspects of the course but somewhat superficially
- 3 = deep thinking, articles well related to concepts from this course. Original thought apparent in the response.
Your grade on these two assignments will be factored into your participation grade.
When and How to Submit Responses
Each response is due by classtime on the day we read the paper. Late responses will receive no credit. Please submit your responses on Sakai. The responses should be entered inline.