A Virtual Environment for Designing User Interface Prototypes with Accessibility Requirements

A Virtual Environment for Designing User Interface Prototypes with Accessibility Requirements Cynthia Calongne Steven Endorf Dawn Frankovich Johnny Sandaire Colorado Technical University CCSC Rocky Mountain Regional Conference October 17, 2008

Usability and Interaction
Interface design in a virtual world
Presence
Environment
Tools
Collaboration
Interaction
Project creation
Usability testing
Assessment

Early Skill Development The authors learn to build and texture their class projects

Modeling in Second Life A self-guided tutorial for building a 20-minute project

Using Second Life for UI Design
Self image
Social networks
Mentor, feedback
Class projects
Roleplay
Tool integration
Immersive design
Build simulations
Empirical testing
Sense of presence
Attend classes, collaborate
Office hours, facilitation
Applied learning activities
Immersive learning
MSN Live Meeting, phones
Inside the organism
Create prototypes
Observe user behavior
80% of the world’s Internet users will be in a virtual world by 2011 (Gartner, 2007)

CS 820 Win 08 Class Projects Newsstand, Electronic Voting Machine, Refrigerator

Design for Accessibility
For vision and mobility impaired users
Asynchronous and synchronous design activities
3D graphics, sounds, gestures and interaction
Models, textures, sounds, animations, scripts
Focus on user characteristics and task performance
Collaboration in class and among students

Students new to a virtual world create low fidelity interface designs and conduct usability tests in a virtual world

Interaction and Empirical Testing
Observed behavior
Test plan
Test procedure
Roles
Volunteers
Observation
Measurements
Analysis
Results
Interface with rezzable objects

Evaluating Interface Prototypes Conducting usability tests of the accessibility projects

Tasks and Skills Required
Appearance
1st self or ideal self?
Move and look
Arrow keys or Navigation menu
Camera controls
Communication
Voice, text, gestures
Group Notices, IMs

Project Prototypes Newsstand for the low vision users; selecting option 4 to hear Refrigerator for wheelchair users; shelves move out and down

Behavior and Task Performance Studying interfaces from a wheelchair Testing the Electronic Voting Machine interface

Student projects on display at the TCC Online Worldwide Conference

Experimental Design Space Fanciful classrooms created by a powerful simulation tool

Virtual Office Hours Rather than view the tank in the office, get inside. The water’s fine!

SL Research Links 1
Second Life
http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/
Cynthia Calongne’s Classes in Second Life
http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com
Research in Second Life presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/research-in-second-life
Artificial Intelligence in SL
http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/
TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips
http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/
Edumuve
http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

SL Research Links 2
National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
NMC Campus Observer
http://sl.nmc.org/
NOAA’s Traffic Analysis
http://mayarealities.com/
Best Practices in SL
http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-lyr-lobo
Annotated Bibliograophy of SL Educational Resources
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

SL Research Links 3
Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment
http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html
An Educational Tour of Second Life
http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/an-educational-tour-of-second-life
A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler?
http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/pioneer-or-settler/
Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds
http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/edu-panel/
LearnScope in Second Life
http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/learnscope-in-second-life

SL Research Links 4
Using Second Life
www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07025A.pps
Beyond Course Management Tools: Second Life
www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/SAC07014.pps
Virtual worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?
http://www.telecoop.org/conference/materials/CalogneTeachinginSecondLife.ppt
What Can We Learn from World of Warcraft & Second Life?
http://archive.nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/materials/calongne.ppt
SL Podcast by Bayne, Walker and Calongne
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastusingsecondli/44967?time=1188754831

SL Research Links 5
Who’s on Second? Educational Podcasts
http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos
Second Life Development -- VITAL Lab
http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
Suffern Middle School in Second Life
http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
Second Life Library 2.0
http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/ and http://www.myspace.com/73899784
Second Life Education Wiki
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki
LSL Wiki -- programming tools
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage

SL Research Links 6
Secondary Worlds
http://secondaryworlds.com/
Reuters -- Doors to open on Google Virtual world(s)?
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/24/doors-to-open-on-google-virtual-worlds/
SL and Google Earth are Transforming the Idea of Architectural Collaboration
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0701dignews-2.asp
Timeline - History of Second Life Wiki
http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages
UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas
http://www.ubernoggin.com/

SL Research Links 7 - News
Reuters in Second life
http://secondlife.reuters.com/
The SL Newspaper
http://www.sl-newspaper.com/
Second Life Herald
http://www.secondlifeherald.com/
Metaverse Messenger
http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html
SLNN
http://www.slnn.com/index.php

SL Research Links 8
New Worlds Notes
http://nwn.blogs.com/
SL A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering
http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6490691
Just Virtual
http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/category/second-life/
Seifert Surface - Math in Second Life
http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html
Eric McLuhan in Second Life - Playing Media Ecology
http://slcn.tv/media-ecology-eric-mcluhan

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