BIIS Term Papers

Consider the sense of touch and its application to desktop interfaces.

Readings

See www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/publications.shtml

Consider the sense of hearing and the use of non-speech sound in human-computer interaction.

Readings

See www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/publications.shtml

Critically assess the effectiveness of current model-based user interface development environments.

Readings:

Tony Griffiths, Peter J. Barclay, Jo McKirdy, Norman W. Paton, Philip D. Gray, Jessie Kennedy, Richard Cooper, Carole A. Goble, Adrian West and Michael Smyth, (1999), Teallach: A Model-Based User Interface Development Environment for Object Databases, in Proc. User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS99), 5-6th September Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 86-96, IEEE Computer Society Publishers, Norman W. Paton and Tony Griffiths (eds.), 1999

Peter J. Barclay, Tony Griffiths, Jo McKirdy, Norman W. Paton, Richard Cooper, & Jessie Kennedy, The Teallach Tool: Using Models For Flexible User Interface Design, in proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (CADUI'99), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 21-23 October 1999

Consider how computer-based tools can assist with the capture and analysis of usability evaluation data.

Readings:

DIVA: exploratory data analysis with multimedia streams; Wendy E. Mackay and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon; Conference proceedings on Human factors in computing systems , 1998, Pages 416 - 423.

 

BIIS Projects

Prototype and evaluate a tutorial "marketplace".

Prototype and evaluate an improved prospective student enquiry system for our Department.

Prototype and evaluate a simple Departmental "activity monitor".

Audio Interface Design. See http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~ashley/FooFone/project.html.

Investigate the effectiveness of the graffiti handwriting system on the Palm computer.

The Teaching and Learning Collaborascope is developing tools for monitoring student feedback on distance learning courses. Develop a visualisation tool for teachers to keep track of the current status of a cohort of distance learning students.