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.

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