IFD:Designing For Action/Vera, Mischa, Max

very cool demo. Please write a brief description and paste the interview results too. --JanD 14:37, 3 December 2010 (CET)

Vera

please click here: [1]. You will find the describtion in the bottom of the image.

researching results

The Addon should be a help for investigation. We want to give the user the possibility for further usage of saved citations and links in a virtual clipbaord. Many students investigate with the internet. I asked 5 Students about their handling with internet while investigating. They are students from history, sport, theology, computer science and german language. For all students the internet is an important place. The reasons for this are laziness and the big information flow on the internet. Most time they use google, google books and wikipedia for researching. The Students save the collected information with extern programms, but also saving whole HTML pages or print them are common kinds of saving informations. They all have an unbelievable fear of the loss of information. For the Students, it is important that they can see the working area all time. Another important thing is, that they want tidyness, because this saves time. They want to use keywords which help to faster find previously saved informations. The addon should automatically identify the original author and the actual date while saving a citation. The possibility of making additional notes should be provided by the addon, because uses want to write down some possible thoughts which may occure during research. How students will interact the GUI? The most common kind of interaction is the shortcut. Also the rightclick with the mouse is a very important. Drag and drop isn't very common, but sometime they use it (mostly in cases when no other kind of interaction is provided by the application). 4 in 5 student don't care about sharing the investigation results or other thing related to that. One student use googledocs to share.

Testing Result

I have testes my concept with 4 diffenrent stundents. Two tested a paperprototype, to see if they notice the buttons. The other two were tested with a quick-and-dirty programmed html-css-javascript-Prototype to test Drag & Drop and the contextmenu per rightclick. One of the student has no own computer but she has surly understand drag & drop and the contextmenu. The other testperson also understood the used techniques. Except drag & drop, the paperprototype was well-understood. There are a few things, which I have to change in my concept, namely hide buttons behind the registercard and set the active registercard as highlighted. Otherwise I'm realy satisfied with the testing results. After the test I asked the tester "What can I do for the programm, so that you are more satisfied?" One answer was: "It would be more helpfull for me, when I can sync my collected Informations with other computers."The last answer is a really good idea we have to think about.

A mode improved design will follow soon.

Mischa Max

One idea to support research the user can mark certain data and save it in a time-line. Quotes, value, tabular data and micro-formats are supported.

The Website is saved to be able to work offline with the data. The User can later scroll back through his Session.

Visulization of Concept here [2]

Goals

We want to give the user the possibility for further usage of saved informations.

the user can save nearly everything.
the user can generate a pdf, if he want or reject it

Non-goals but maybe a feature

The possibility to share sth