Reflection on this week’s laband lead into the Week 3 lab

Contextual enquiryContextual analysis

First tasteIndividual then group

What were we doing?

• Contextual enquiry – Homework tasks– Auto-ethnography– Studying another person

• Contextual analysis– In class affinity diagrams

What came out of this?

• Continuum from– Negatives to Positives

• Aspects– Interface– Actual information– Mode of learning– Context (eg distractions)

Assignment 1: in two parts

Foundation for the project for the rest of the semesterFormative feedback

Overview of the semester

One assignmentThree themes: design++, technical,

hot topics

Presentation (due Week 6)• System Concept Formulation• Contextual enquiry highlights

– full set, one for each team member on Bitbucket – walkthrough in lab after presentation• The key persona

– Others on Bitbucket – walkthrough in lab after presentation• Key idea for the prototype • Motivation for it

– Linked to lessons from CI/CA/research• Requirements and tasks (< 1 page)

– 3 key requirements– 3 key abstract tasks – 6 key concrete tasks

• Best prototype so far storyboard walkthrough– full set, one for each team member on Bitbucket – walkthrough in lab after presentation

• Stretch tasks: – Design enables some form of user control– Makes good use of existing knowledge, available systems, literature on learning, learning design and

creating educational technology

Thinking about the task

The domain of learning about healthThe nature of the innovative

interface for learning

Domain of learning

• Can be done in 15 minutes– Why is this important?– Why not 5? Or 50? Or 10,000 hours?– Think in terms of being part of a big vision– Small is beautiful and essential

• Nature of the learning– Declarative eg facts about a topic– Procedural can be considered but check with tutor

• Measure of success– Pre- and post-test

The users

DemographicsPrior knowledge assumed/required

Need for the knowledgeRepeat, irregular

Considerations for target users

• Available for you to do user studies• Appropriate match between the users and the

chosen learning domain

Users – what sort of users?

• The Third User, 6 Mar 2013 • http://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/

Technical Topics

• Setting up environment: source code management, bitbucket, mercurial

• Web pages: HTML, CSS, Javascript• Web toolkits: bootstrap.css, JQuery• Server: Python + microframework– hosting: VM+vagrant

• AJAX, template languages

Overview of the coming week

Lab and associated homework preparation