2. Current Research
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Iceland
Prof. Ebba Þóra Hvannberg
HCI, Software Engineering
Natural user interfaces
Voice communication
Design of virtual environments
Emergency service training
Networking and Telco
3. CRISIS Project
EU-FP7 project (2010 - 2013)
Crisis management training
CRitical Incident management training System
using Interactive Simulation environment
Development of training simulator in VE
HI involved in half of WPs
Methodology
Requirements elicitation, Concept development, Evaluation
Research results
Conference publications, demos [ISCRAM, DIS, NordiCHI,
HCII]
12 partners across Europe
4. Go-Lab Project
Goals
Engage students in science
Via inquiry-based learning [Rocard, 2007]
Objectives
Create pedagogically structured learning spaces (WP1)
Determine inquiry classroom scenarios (WP1)
Identify end-user personalization features and inquiry
learning apps (WP4)
Create opportunities for social interactions (WP6)
Evaluation of Go-Lab infrastructure (WP8)
5. Stakeholders
Already known
Teachers at primary and secondary schools
School children
Researchers at science laboratories
Opened to innovators
6. Strategy
Phase 0
Possibilities of current online labs
P2 Requirements Analysis
Requirements for Go-Lab portal development
Distributed requirements engineering approach, supported by
social media
Requirements integration
P3 Iterative Design and Evaluation
Requirements Development
Make sure requirements were addressed
Test prototype with students and teachers
Focus on usability, user experience Evaluation
7. Requirements Phase I
Objectives
Create pedagogically structured learning spaces (WP1)
Determine inquiry classroom scenarios (WP1)
Task 3.1
Collect data on user preferences and educative practices in context
systematic analysis of educative practices in authentic educational settings
Initial definition of the pedagogical specifications (WP1)
Methodology
Literature review (e.g. Rydberg, 2004) to prepare checklists for:
structured observations of teachers and children
Selection of interview topics for:
open observations [Howell,1972] followed by semi-structured interviews
Preparation of large-scale surveys for:
gathering quantitative data to infer general profiles of the educative practices
8. Requirements Phase II
Task 3.2 WP WP
integrating the multi-source requirements, 1 2
identifying overlaps and addressing trade-offs
Methodology WP WP
3 5
Collect the requirements from:
Content (WP2), pedagogical (WP1) and technology perspectives
(WP5)
Organize workshops (focus groups)
Integrate requirements, identify overlaps and address trade-offs
Early prototypes evaluation
Develop web application for requirements sharing (?)
filtering and prioritizing the requirements by distributed stakeholders
9. Requirements Phase III
Task 3.3
needs analysis and generation of creative options
Methodology
Organize workshops (focus groups)
For stakeholders and potential innovators
On needs analysis
Discussions of what is done, future projection and context for the portal
On creative options
Field trials discussion
Consideration of organizational, institutional and economic conditions
Open online discussion forum (?)
Facilitate progressive discussion of stakeholders and innovators
10. Evaluation
Goals
Identify usability and user experience problems
Use context-sensitive evaluation methods
Methodology
Literature review of context-sensitive methods
Usability evaluation (effective, efficient and pleasant)
User experience evaluation
WP WP
Expert-based methods (lab) [Nielsen, 1993]
1 2
End-user evaluation (field, remote) [Ericcson, 1993]
Questionnaires (SUS, SUMI, etc.)
Cultural probes [Gaver et al.1999]
WP WP
Experience sampling [Larson, Csikszentmihalyi, 1983] 3 5
Emerging methods
11. Interplay and Timeline
Between development and requirements/evaluation
Aforementioned workshops and
regular project and work package meetings
work package deliverables and progress reports
preparation
• D3.1
Year 1 • Preliminary Go-Lab requirements specifications, needs analysis, and creative options
• D3.2
Year 2 • Formative usability report on the early prototype of the Go-Lab portal
• D3.3
Year 3 • Formative usability and user experience evaluation report on the initial Go-Lab Portal
12. Questions
Your questions…?
Project scale?
"common but localized Go-Lab experimentation interface“
Three online labs resulting in portal to use them?
General methodology how to create a portal to access any lab?
Standardization
How many work packages involve LE?
What does Go-Lab stand for?
