CI Meeting Feb. 21, 2008
Agenda:
- Progress Updates
- Issues/concerns
- What are we learning?
- What models we hypothesize focusing on for this project: see project plan, http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Research+Project+Plan
Outcomes:
Actions in bold
CI Notes
- We have 3 levels of notes
- Raw notes
- taken during the meeting with the participant
- kept private
- hand written or digital, whatever works for the individuals
- Processed but detailed notes
- raw notes are analyzed, synthesized and categorized into categories we created
- audience: CI team will use these for user & behavior modeling
- digital and shared on the wiki but...
- kept private for participant privacy
- not everything in raw notes will make it into this document
- Summary notes (instructors: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/JoEk, students: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/BoEk)
- summary of the processed notes meant to give an overview of what we are gleaning from CIs
- audience: Public
- digital and on wiki publicly
- Raw notes
Next steps with Summaries, http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/JoEk
- Respective CI teams will process notes from their CIs & then add them to the summary page
- ? will work on the York Instructor 1 summary notes to further summarize
- Daphne will work on the Berkeley Student 1 summary notes to further summarize
- We need to advertise this link in the next week or so so people can follow what we are learning -- let's shoot for once the 2 current summaries are cleaned up.
Additional CIs
- We feel we are missing 2 very important user groups: grad students & instructional technologists/designers
- We'll add 2 of each to our recruitment lists at each school (UofT already talked to one ID along with an instructor)
Use Case versus Tasks versus Scenario discussion
- Not commonly agreed on definitions
- Use case is typically system language so we want to be careful about potential confusion
- Subtle differences
- Challenges with English (maybe all) language being imprecise
- We just need to define what we mean and be clear about it.
- Clayton will take a first stab at these descriptions
Modeling activities
- We can start defining some activity diagrams if there are complex activities we've seen / heard about that need to be needled out
- these could become part of the notes
- Most of the modeling will happen once we are done with the currently scheduled CIs (4 each instructor, student & TA/GSI at UCB & Toronto, 2 each grad student & ID at UCB and Toronto). We'd like to shoot for the end of March but are dependent on scheduling the rest of the CIs.
- Potential models: Profiles, personas, use cases matrix & diagrams, activity diagrams, task analysis, swim lane communication diagrams, scenarios