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COMP 4026 - Lecture 1
- 1. LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION COMP 4026 – Advanced HCI Semester 5 - 2016 Mark Billinghurst University of South Australia
- 2. Lecturer • Mark Billinghurst • PhD University of Washinton • Director of the Empathic Computing Lab • Expert in AR, 3D user interfaces • mark.billinghurst@unisa.edu.au
- 3. Class Logistics • Weekly lecture (2 hrs) • Thursday 11am – 1pm • Room D2-34 • Assessment • Project Concept Design – 10% • Class participation/Design journal – 40% • HCI Project – 50% • What you will need • Design Journal/Sketch Book
- 4. HCI Project • Pick an advanced interface technology • Wearable, AR/VR, Bio sensor, Computer Vision • Identify a user need that it addresses • Product a concept design • Develop an interactive prototype • Conduct a user evaluation • Write a research report • 8-10 pages conference format
- 6. What You Will Learn • History of HCI Trends • Interaction Design Fundamentals • Design Thinking Processes • Advanced Interface Technology • Wearable Computing • Augmented/Virtual Reality • Sensing systems • Experimental Design/Evaluation • Research Directions
- 12. Processing Power
- 15. Courtesy Matt Rettig, CMU
- 26. Doug Englebart Mouse (1968) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPJZ6M52dI
- 28. Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWAIp3t6SLU
- 52. “The product is no longer the basis of value.The experience is.” Venkat Ramaswamy The Future of Competition.
- 54. experiences services products components Value Sony CSL © 2004 Gilmore + Pine: Experience Economy Function Emotion
- 56. Good Experience Design • Reactrix • Top down projection • Camera based input • Reactive Graphics • No instructions • No training
- 57. Reactrix Demo – car race
- 58. Reactrix Demo – Coke interactive
- 59. How to improve experience of picking up rubbish?
- 60. World’s Deepest Rubbish Bin • The Fun Theory – http://www.funtheory.com • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrhp-IWK2w
- 61. Improve the experience of walking up stairs?
- 62. Musical Stairs • The Fun Theory – http://www.funtheory.com • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
- 63. What to do? • Imagine • You re bringing a new product to market • Your #2 competitor has been in the market for over a year, selling millions of units • Your #1 competitor launches the same month • Your technology is slower than your competitors • Your technology is older than your competitors • Your last product failed in the market
- 64. • Do you compete on Price ? • Do you compete on Technology ? • Do you compete on Features ? Wrong: Compete on user experience !
- 66. NintendoWii • Cheap - $500 • Unique game play • Wireless 3 DOF controller • Position and orientation sensing • Aiming to broaden user base • Can play previous games/downloads
- 68. Sales to Sept 2011
- 71. Using the N-gage
- 76. Interaction Design Designing interactive products to support people in their everyday and working lives Preece, J., (2002). Interaction Design • Design of User Experience with Technology
- 77. Bill Verplank on Interaction Design • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk6XAmALOWI
- 78. • Interaction Design involves answering three questions: • What do you do? - How do you affect the world? • What do you feel? – What do you sense of the world? • What do you know? – What do you learn? Bill Verplank
- 79. • Artist/Engineer: • concerned with what’s on the screen
- 80. • Interface Designer: • concerned with person in front of the screen • often takes static view of interface
- 81. • Interaction Designer • Concerned with engaging with technology over time • Creating two way conversation with machine
- 83. What is Interaction Design? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZPLCjrewj8
- 86. HCI and Interaction Design
- 87. Interaction Design Process Evaluate (Re)Design Identify needs/ establish requirements Build an interactive version Final Product Develop alternative prototypes/concepts and compare them And iterate, iterate, iterate....
- 88. DISCOVERY
- 89. Interaction Design Process Evaluate (Re)Design Identify needs/ establish requirements Build an interactive version Final Product Develop alternative prototypes/concepts and compare them And iterate, iterate, iterate....
- 90. Goal Create a deep understanding of the user and problem space
- 92. Who are your Users? Everyone!
- 94. Designing for Everyone Designing for Everyone pleases No one
- 95. Who REALLY are your Users/Stakeholders? • Not as obvious as you think: — those who interact directly with the product — those who manage direct users — those who receive output from the product — those who make the purchasing decision — those who use competitor’s products • Three categories of user (Eason, 1987): — primary: frequent hands-on — secondary: occasional or via someone else — tertiary: affected by its introduction, or will influence its purchase
- 97. Smart Shopping Cart • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeSqnLZXKM4
- 98. Who are the Stakeholders? Check-out operators CustomersManagers and owners • Suppliers • Local shop owners
- 99. 99 What do we mean by ‘needs’? • Users rarely know what is possible • Users can’t tell you what they ‘need’ to achieve goals • Instead, look at existing tasks: – their context – what information do they require? – who collaborates to achieve the task? – why is the task achieved the way it is? • Envisioned tasks: – can be rooted in existing behaviour – can be described as future scenarios
- 101. NeedsAnalysis Methods Learn from people Learn from analogous settings Learn from Experts Immersive yourself in context
- 102. Learn from People • Who • Brainstorm interesting people to meet • Think of extremes • How • Plan the interaction and logistics • Invite participants • Create a trusted atmosphere • What • Pay attention to your environment • Capture your immediate observations
- 103. Interviewing • Understanding people’s thoughts, emotions, motivations • Understanding people’s choices and behaviours • Key way to identify needs
- 104. Learn from Experts • Experts have in-depth knowledge about topic • Can give large amount of information in short time • Choose Participants • Expertise, radical opinion, etc • Set up for productive conversation • Plan, capture, document
- 105. Immersive yourself in Context • Observing the problem space around you • Plan observations • What emotions do you experience? • What challenges? • Explore and take notes • Sketches, notes, photos • Capture what you have seen • Reflections, post-it notes
- 106. Understanding the User A day in the Life of.. Cultural Probes.. Role Playing..
- 107. Cultural Probes:Equator Domestic Probes
- 108. What? How?Why? • Observation analysis • Start from Concrete Observation • What is the person doing? • Move to Understanding • How are they doing it? • Finish with interpretation • Why are they doing it?
- 110. Seek Inspiration inAnalogous Setting • Inspiration in different context than problem space • Eg redesign library by going to Apple store • Think of Analogies that connect with challenge • Similar scenarios in different places • Make arrangements for activities • Logistics • Absorb experience • Observe, ask
- 111. Analogous Settings • Analogies provide way to get fresh perspective • Identify key aspects of problem space • Look for opportunities for analogies
- 112. Define the Problem • Expresses the problem you are addressing • Defines your unique point of view • Unique design vision based on needs analysis • Two Goals • Deep understanding of users and design space • Actionable problem statement (point of view)
- 113. Stakeholder • Identify key elements of target person • Demographics • Occupation • Motivation • Express as adjective description • Develop typical persona
- 114. Personas • Personas are a design tool to help visualize who you are designing for and imagine how person will use the product • A persona is an archetype that represents the behavior and goals of a group of users • Based on insights and observations from customer research • Not real people, but synthesised from real user characteristics • Bring them to life with a name, characteristics, goals, background • Develop multiple personas
- 115. Persona • Capture elements relevant to problem
- 117. Empathy Map • Synthesize observations and draw out insight • 4 quadrant layout • SAY: What are some quotes and defining words your user said? • DO: What actions and behaviors did you notice? • THINK: What might your user be thinking? What does this tell you about his or her beliefs? • FEEL: What emotions might your subject be feeling?
- 118. Empathy Map
- 120. Example
- 121. Expressing the Problem [User] needs [verb phrase] in a way that [way] How might we [verb phrase] ?
- 122. Need • Human emotional or physical necessities. • Needs help define your design • Needs are verbs not Nouns • Verbs - (activities and desires) • Nouns (solutions) • Identify needs directly out of the user traits you noted, or from contradictions between • disconnect between what she says and what she does..
- 123. Insight • A remarkable realization that you could leverage to better respond to - a design challenge. • Insights often grow from contradictions between two user attributes • either within a quadrant or two different quadrants • Asking “Why?” when you notice strange behavior.
- 124. Problem Definition Creates Insight User + Need = Insight