CHI 2007 Advance Program: Session Details

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Usability (Papers)

Thursday
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

 

An Analysis Tool for Interaction Technique Designers

Francois Guimbretiere
Morgan Dixon
Ken Hinckley

Our tool simplifies the analysis of data collected during empirical evaluations. It helps experimenters rapidly identify the most common pattern or use and easily compare them.

 

Is user modeling friend or foe? Effects of information presentation style in easy and difficult driving conditions

Jiang Hu
Clifford Nass
Johanna Moore
Andi Winterboer
Rebecca Illowsky

We demonstrate that user modeling plus search & refine is better than search & refine only for in-car information presentation in easy driving conditions, but worse in difficult conditions.

 

Tracking the Interaction of Users with AJAX Applications for Usability Testing

Richard Atterer
Albrecht Schmidt

Our tool offers detailed user interaction logging for AJAX web applications. As users do not have to install software, they are more likely to participate in remote usability tests.

 

Heuristic Evaluations at Bell Labs: Analyses of Evaluator Overlap and Group Session

Cheryl Coyle
Rebecca Iden
Xerxes Kotval
Paulo Santos
Heather Vaughn

In this paper we examined a set of 7 heuristic evaluations with specific attention to issue generation overlap among professional Heuristic Evaluation reviewers. We also evaluated the effectiveness of conducting a group review.