Survey Form

2. Survey Form Dear student,  Below is the link of survey Form. It is mandatory for all students to fill up. Its very simple. You may fill up this form within 5 minutes.  http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html Thanks In case of any issue, please let me know at salmanbashir@vu.edu.pk or cs408@vu.edu.pk

3. Dear HCI Students I would like to welcome you in the course of Human Computer Interaction (CS408) on the behalf of Virtual university of Pakistan.  In this course, you will find a project throughout semester. This project is about the core of HCI- which is Usability Evaluation. This project is divided into some activities. Every assigned activity will be graded. Detail of each activity and its related tasks will be announced soon. You will be given step by step guidelines along with examples to perform each activity. The core purpose of this activity is to enhance your practical skills in HCI. At the end of this activity, you will be able to learn and practiced the applied and core area of HCI.  In few words, I can say that the project is about “The interaction/ usage of different mobile applications like Facebook, Google Docs, and Skype etc. on smartphone (Samsung/iPhone/…) and share your experience”.

4. Requirements of these Project activities:   • Almost all of the students now a days have a mobile and majority of these have smartphone like Samsung, iPhone, htc, Qmobile etc. All those who owns smartphone, have good familiarity to use different mobile applications like whatsApp, Skype, Google Map and many more. Some of you certainly not having smartphone, they should arrange by themselves either by taking from his/her family member or can make a group with a person who have it. Second requirement is to get familiarity with mobile device at least. It means one person should know about how to attend a call, make a call, save contacts, send/receive messages, etc. 

5. Mode: • All activities will be carried out using Quizzes, Assignment interface, Google Docs, GDB, 

6. Grading Scheme:  • 15-20% weightage of this project.

7. Your major role:   • Understand mobile application functionalities and the way to use it.  • Observe the behavior of mobile application (only display) While using mobile applications.  • Keep in mind the following questions while performing a task on mobile application.  • Do you understand task and its related description? • Do you have an idea about the outcome of task? • Did you achieve the goal/objective of the task? • Did you find any confusing interface that leads to misunderstanding while achieving goal? • Did you perform any irrelevant/additional work while achieving target?

8. Your major role(cont..): • Did you precisely mention the identified problem? • Do you have any suggestion to improve performance? Do you think it is possible to achieve goal more quickly? • Did you calculate efficiency? Time required to complete the target. Did you study the helping material and understand the way to calculate the efficiency? • Do you think working in pairwise is more appropriate and helps to identify flaws easily? • Do you know and understand the usage of gestural operations, its meaning and behavior? • Do you think Context aware app provides usable interface to users?  • Do you suggest what app should display for more usability if required?

9. Special slide • After Understanding different fields (efficiency, effectiveness etc) in table and the way to measure these, fill up the table properly with values. • If you find any query, please email me at cs408@vu.edu.pk / salmanbashir@vu.edu.pk • Your participation will be highly appreciated.

10. Facilitation: • You will be given the complete and concrete understanding of all concepts and their execution used in any activity • You will be given a detailed step by step guidelines.  • You will be given concrete examples of how to perform a task.  • You will be provided the understanding of all questions highlighted above.  

11. Execution plan: • At start, basic understanding and knowledge about HCI which you have taken so for from the first 6+ lectures of this course,  along with some other HCI related concepts like evaluation concepts, introduction to different mobile applications, their related functions/tasks, smartphone basic features,   and working methodology will be discussed. • Please note I will share with you all this material today. 

12. Execution plan (cont…): •  The purpose of this discussion is to give you an idea about what to do and how to do. You will find reading material available to you on LMS in the form of documents and audio file. A discussion will initiate on Skype to let you facilitate and to minimize your confusion about any concept. Your participation will be highly appreciated

13. Execution plan (cont…): • After this, a quiz will conduct to assess students understanding about the above said knowledge. This Quiz will be a Graded Activity. A proper announcement about schedule will upload soon on LMS.

14. Execution plan (cont…): • Right after Quiz, you will find a day for discussion. Next, you will find an assignment in which you will be given 5 mobile applications with some defined tasks and its related description. You may take any other additional (along with defined) task from these 5 mobile applications. . It is advised to perform this whole activity in pair wise. However, if a student don’t find, then, he/she can alone do this activity. 

15. Execution plan (cont…): • All those who wish to work in pair are required to send the solution file individually using your own id on LMS and on Google docs. Just mention the pair in file uploading on LMS. 

16. Execution plan (cont…): • In pair, each student will perform every assigned task. When one person will perform task, other student will observe him/her comfort, confidence, happy/unhappy, easiness/complexity, time to complete task and guide him/her wherever necessary to complete a task. Most important task of the observer student is to assist the performer student to fill up table with correct values. Now, the observer will become performer and vice versa. Same procedure will repeat. At the end of this activity, both of the students will have their own tables containing experimental data in them.  • If a student is alone performing this activity, then he/she is required to note the relevant data and immediately after executing task fill up the table with values. 

17. Execution plan (cont…): • Each task of this activity will perform two times by each student. First time in a sitting/focused environment like you are sitting in your class room/ sitting at some other place while executing task. Second time execute the same task while moving like jogging, gossiping with friends, buying something, moving around in a bus etc. In static and dynamic situation.  • It is suggested in pair wise, if one student performs a task in sitting position, it would be nice if other student will perform the same task in moving situations. In such a way, there are more chances to identify problems.

18. Table

19. Execution plan (cont…): • Before mid-exam another Quiz will be used to check academic concepts.Before midterm, two assignments will be given after first Quiz. Second quiz will held after two assignments.  • In second assignment, 5 gesture based mobile applications will be given to students and asked to perform each defined task by following the scheme as above. A special focus should be given to all multi touch gestures operations like sharing, delete, save etc. used to control mobile apps and try to evaluate usefulness.