Community Meeting (November 14, 2018): Preferences Framework

Description

Presenters: Justin, Alan, et al.

We’ll be discussing the integrator experience and, if time, the user experience and future plans for the preferences framework.

• Demo

• Setting Up User Interface Options

• Video Recording

Notes

• Topics that come up from CISL project

  • "verifiable research" about why there should be user preferences

    • examples of research in education ( https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ )

  • how much complexity is too much complexity when exposing preferences to learners. How do we provide options to users to customize their environments without overwhelming them.

    • possible solutions

      • snapsets

      • preferences for preferences

  • preference discovery

    • https://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/railway-hero

    • https://www.thirteen.org/13pressroom/press-release/wnet-launches-cyberchases-first-accessible-game-railway-hero-on-pbs-kids-games-app-and-pbskids-org/

• Integration of UIO

  • requires some level of technical proficiency to add UIO to the site and a level of proficiency of CSS to have it work well with the site

    • Often there is a lot of fixing of the CSS requires because the site has been developed without UIO in mind.

      • This is often where people give up and look for an alternative out-of-the-box solution

      • issues may be related to using old version of bootstrap that didn't use em values

  • the integrations that tend to work the best are partners that work through those issues and engage the community

    • however the documentation we have may not be sufficient and the on ramping can be challenging.

  • New developers may be looking for something that works with webpack or browserifty to have it be part of their site bundle.

  • potentially use UIO+ as a quick way to evaluate frameworks and sites for UIO compatibility.

• Need to look into optimizations for slow networks and hardware