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

A Virtual Environment for Designing User Interface Prototypes with Accessibility Requirements Cynthia Calongne Lyr Lobo in Second Life [email_address] http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo For more information (left to right) Johnny Sandaire,Steve Endorf , Dawn Frankovich and Lyr Lobo Lyr Lobo