Kaleidocycle

Joseph Dumas & Janice Redish analyze the potential benefits of combining various evaluation methods as complementary tools for usability testing in the context of usability engineering.

Kuniavsky’s “Information Shadows”

Information shadows enable users to access information about their products and experience them in very different ways than could have been imaginable before the Internet. Today, products mean so much more to people and impact their product/customer experiences in new ways. With built-in ubicomp, customers experience products that have a much wider network of associations.

“calm technology” (Weiser & Brown, 1996)

According the Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown (1996), "peripheral information" extends the notion of "affordances" to describe action enabling technologies that are reachable, yet on the periphery of perception and therefore encalming.

lumiere du coeur – fritzing circuit (2)

sparkleLabs_proposal2010_bb — Arduino, TCRT1000, & RGB LED

TCRT1000 [...]

“Recruiting Participants” – Dumas & Redish

Dumas & Redish lay-out the steps and tactics for recruiting participants; those include: Finding Appropriate Participants, Reaching and Screening Potential Participants, Deciding Who Should Recruit Participants, Knowing What to Say When You are Recruiting, Arranging for Payment or Other Incentives, and Having a Back-up -- But Not Double Booking

Terri Timely’s Synesthesia

“Evaluating Usability Throughout Design and Development” – Joseph Dumas & Janice Redish

Kuniavsky’s “Information Shadows”

“calm technology” (Weiser & Brown, 1996)

lumiere du coeur – fritzing circuit (2)

“Recruiting Participants” – Dumas & Redish