CS 591 Human Computer Interaction – Evaluation

Home	Evaluation criteria: 50% Group project + 50% Individual assignment 2016– Individual Assignment 1. Investigate existing user interfaces of software applications, websites, smartphones or any other electronic product (like microwave oven, camera and so on). 2. Identify three problems with existing user interfaces. Each problem needs to be associated with different contexts or applications than the other two problems. 3. Explain the problem and propose a solution. If possible, relate the problem with a human factor (like visual search, rapid aiming movement, learning, memory and so on) 4. Plan a way to evaluate how your proposed solution can be proven better than the existing user interface. o Sample Solution 2014– Individual Assignment § Assignment 1: Students identified three HCI problems in electronic interfaces in their everyday use and related them to human factors. o Sample solution § Assignment 2: Students wrote a critical review of a book from Springer HCI series as their individual assignment. 2013 – Individual Assignment Students wrote a critical review of a book from Springer HCI series as their individual assignment. 2012 Individual Assignment Solution Notes
Course Structure
Students’ Projects
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Final Grade Distribution 2016

Final Grade Distribution 2014

Final Grade Distribution 2013

Final Marks Distribution 2012

Group Project Rating 2012

Sl No.	Project Name	Originality	Quality	Presentation	Vision	Total	Feedback
		(in %)
1	Augmented Reality	80	80	80	90	81	Good presentation, good idea and usability analysis plan, well written report, missed a short literature survey or comparison to existing AR systems in report.
2	eShopping Websites	80	100	80	0	78	Well planned study, good analysis Report missed representative screenshots and future work section.
3	Online Eye Testing Interface	100	50	100	50	80	Interesting idea, good presentation Authors need to study the use of Snellen Chart in more detail, it can not tell 'power' of eye, neither 20/20 rating while the user is viewing from 1.2 mt distance. More emphasis should be given on the framework and developing picture based charts.
4	Fitts' Law study	10	10	40	0	18	The literature survey failed to cite analysis of Fitts' law and presented plenty of wrong information even those presented in lecture notes. I refer authors to go through lecture notes on Fitts' law and read papers referred to them in an earlier email communication.
5	HCI for Indian Population	50	0	10	50	23	The project proposes some new thoughts but it does not really report any formal literature survey, nor any citations. The presentation is not good, same piece of text was repeated in the first two pages and the writing needs more internal review.
6	Health Tracker	70	10	0	0	24	The project presents an interesting idea and compared it with related work. However neither the report nor the slides follow the specified format of presentation. There is no discussion on usability issues except the screen size, the other issues are more functionality oriented. Though it is going to be an interesting project but at present it lacks both depth in quality and maturity in presentation.
7	Memory Support	0	0	0	0	0	Plagiarised from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mllee/docs/UbiComp229-lee.pdf
8	Virtual Reality	85	85	90	90	87	Nice coverage and presentation though the report needs a better structure, perhaps an explicit paragraph on structure of the document may help. Authors should reduce number of quotations and put more analysis. Citations to some peer reviewed recent papers would have enhanced the quality.
9	Voting System	10	0	50	40	22	The project tries to introduce a new system but did not seem to think about any security issues, e.g. in UK or USA, all citizens have SSN or bio metric details recorded, but why they do not use online voting ? The report does mention a few usability issues but it mainly talks about speculation and does not provide any hints of formal analysis.
10	Website Evaluation	90	80	100	50	86	Good evaluation, nice presentation but the report misses future plan of maintenance and evaluation.