You are cordially invited to join us for the Dissertation Proposal
Defense of Abdullah Ali, to be held on Tuesday, December 17, 2019, in
Allen Library Auditorium from 10 a.m. to noon. Title: Abstract:
Creating user interfaces that are natural, guessable, learnable, and
accessible is a persistent challenge. Involving end users in the
design process is a well-established approach to address these
challenges, but traditional participatory design has limitations,
especially when it comes to scaling beyond the lab and reaching
diverse participants. I build on the success of a popular
participatory design method called end-user elicitation. Elicitation
studies work by presenting the effect of an interaction (e.g., what
happens after a user makes a gesture) and asking end-user participants
to perform the action that would have caused that effect (e.g., the
gesture itself). Despite their success, elicitation studies have
important limitations. They typically are confined to a lab setting,
limiting the diversity of their participants and the
representativeness of their results. Also, analyzing the studies’
results is a laborious process. Furthermore, elicitation studies lack
a formal approach to evaluate the quality of their results. My work
addresses these limitations by scaling beyond the lab and conducting
distributed elicitation studies with online crowds. For my
dissertation, I have thus far created an open platform and formulated
the Distributed Interaction Design (D.X.D.) process. My proposed work
going forward will be to use this platform and process to address
aspects of elicitation studies formerly unevaluated, particularly
whether 'priming' results in more or less guessable, learnable, and
memorable gestures in mixed-reality environments. This work overall
contributes methodological extensions to elicitation studies, an open
platform for the larger research community, and empirical studies of
user-generated interactions such as gestures, voice-commands, and
icons. Supervisory Committee: Jacob O. Wobbrock, Chair Katharina
Reinecke, GSR Alexis Hiniker, Member Meredith Ringel Morris, Member
culture
1047
Views
18/12/2019 Last update