From Chaos to Cooperation Teaching Analytic Evaluation with LINKUP.pdfVIP

From Chaos to Cooperation: Teaching Analytic Evaluation with LINK-UP Jason Chong Lee, Sirong Lin, C. M. Chewar, D. Scott McCrickard, Alan Fabian, Andrew Jackson Department of Computer Science Center for HCI, Virginia Tech, USA {chonglee, silin, cchewar, mccricks, alfabian, andrewj}@ Abstract: Our work seeks to design and develop a tool to enable the learning of human-computer interaction while contributing to a growing and evolving development environment. This paper focuses on teaching students about analytic evaluations, a popular evaluation method that can be conducted rapidly and inexpensively. With our module, designers and evaluators can debate claims about the interface being developed, helping to discover problems with a design—shown in our usability evaluation of the module. We discuss how the module can support design reuse and speculate on broader applications for this type of learning and development environment. Introduction Emerging areas of study like human-computer interaction (HCI), with a varied, multidisciplinary flavor, are difficult to teach in higher education settings. As with many emerging areas, HCI appears to many students as a seemingly random collection of topics, without the structure important to facilitate learning. Until that structure can be identified and leveraged in educational teaching tools, teachers will have difficulty in teaching the subject, and students will not gain a true appreciation for the field. In keeping with the goals of the E-Learn conference, our efforts seek to design and develop a tool that will enable students to learn basic concepts of HCI while contributing to a g