iX Design Weblog http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/ en-us 2003-08-19T16:44:32-08:00 More Survey Monkey comparisons http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000095.html Some interesting comparisons between the two groups' surveys - Task 1 - 57% on Map Table strongly agreed they “contributed to the task at hand” compared to 38% on the laptop - 57% on Map Table strongly agreed they “agreed... User Study Corina 2003-08-19T16:44:32-08:00 Photo Analysis http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000094.html Due to technical difficulties (why can't PCs recognize .jpg for goodness sakes??) I'm writing up some observatiosn from the photos we took during the study. General Observations -Pointing to Laptop screen is much easier because of proximity, but also difficult... User Study LoraO 2003-08-19T12:33:15-08:00 User study: survey monkey observations http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000093.html I compiled some of the interesting results Lora and I found from the survey monkey data On the averaged surveys (maptop first + laptop first)... Map Table had higher averages for - contributed to the task - would enjoy doing... User Study Corina 2003-08-18T16:51:47-08:00 User study data compiled http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000092.html GENERAL OBSERVATIONS - all people on laptop go to Google News-- we should look at it - some people would like to sit (8 min. too long to stand?) - but these tended to be the people writing! can't see... User Study Corina 2003-08-18T15:41:41-08:00 Presentation and User Studies http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000091.html It's been a while... On Thursday, iX presented at a Design X meeting at the Center for Design Research. We went over a brief introduction, what our project generally is (and aims to do), a technical explination of how it... User Study LoraO 2003-08-16T20:55:59-08:00 user study outline http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000090.html don't go on unless not in user study... User Study Corina 2003-08-14T17:46:02-08:00 Presentation Outline http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000089.html Presentation Outline Lora, I've added in your intro for you to say the abstract I wrote so we can explain our mission and so on.... Final Documentation Corina 2003-08-13T16:27:29-08:00 Key Design Decisions http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000088.html Here is a rough draft of key design decisions. I suspect I'm missing quite a few. Monica ~ can you please add on key decisions used in flash and the sensors? I think that you will be able to explain... Final Documentation Joanna 2003-08-13T15:32:56-08:00 Title and Intro http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000087.html Title of Our Presentation : A "Whole News World": Using a Physical Interface to Navigate International News Sites Abstract/Intro... Final Documentation Corina 2003-08-13T14:31:25-08:00 Round 2 User Study http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000086.html User study happening this Friday and Saturday. (Andy made a good suggestion... we should do a pilot of our user study hopefully Thursday?) Don't go on unless you are definitely NOT doing our user study!... User Study Corina 2003-08-12T16:07:18-08:00 Technical Documentation http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000085.html Here's the compiled version of our Technical Documentation. Go Team! yay. corina. P.S. I've replaced first/second click with explanations of rollover and such. Let me know if I need to change it in any way! I also went through and... Final Documentation Corina 2003-08-11T16:00:40-08:00 First Pass at Non-Technical Coding Walkthrough http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000084.html Hey guys! So, I've done a rough draft of my code walkthrough. It is very very informal, so it clearly needs a lot of tweaking in terms of style. I'm not sure how understandable it is, if it needs to... Final Documentation Joanna 2003-08-09T22:37:02-08:00 country name projection http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000083.html Country Name Projection... Final Documentation Corina 2003-08-09T21:05:45-08:00 eBeam/image map http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000082.html Rough draft of eBeam/image map. Feel free to edit/comment.... Final Documentation Corina 2003-08-09T21:01:52-08:00 Multibrowsing and Event Heap http://ix.stanford.edu/designblog/archives/000080.html I've been watching too many promotional videos for Apple. The following is the result, explaining how the Event Heap and Multibrowsing works.... Final Documentation LoraO 2003-08-09T15:33:28-08:00