Preliminary results of a research project, aimed on investigation of correlation between UI graphic design (decoration) and UI efficiency. Experimental data and short methodology description along with analogues projects review are included.
Field of Study and Research Methods for an Effect of Cognitive and Informatio...Yury Solonitsyn
Authors show one of the possible approaches to the experimental research of the cognitive and information load on PC’s users – the mental load or amount of efforts, spent because of the necessity to recognise screen form’s elements and to process the data presented.
Andrei Balkanskii, Artem Smolin, Yury Solonitsyn
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Designing with the user in mind: how user-centred design (UCD) can work for ...Jennifer Cham
Free talk video (you just need to get the access code by email) is here: https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/multimedia/flvmedia.php?i=1377
Presented at ISMB ECCB 2013 conference: http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013
It is recognised that bioinformatics resources often suffer from usability problems: for example, they can be too complex for the infrequent user to navigate, and they can “lack sophistication” compared to other websites that people use in their daily lives. In this presentation, Dr. Jenny Cham, User-Experience Analyst at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK, will describe specific case studies to show how user-centred design (UCD) principles can be applied to bioinformatics services.
As well as improved usability, the benefits of UCD can include more effective decision-making for design ideas and technologies during development; enhanced team-working and communication; cost effectiveness; and ultimately a bioinformatics service that more closely meets the needs of its target research community.
Field of Study and Research Methods for an Effect of Cognitive and Informatio...Yury Solonitsyn
Authors show one of the possible approaches to the experimental research of the cognitive and information load on PC’s users – the mental load or amount of efforts, spent because of the necessity to recognise screen form’s elements and to process the data presented.
Andrei Balkanskii, Artem Smolin, Yury Solonitsyn
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Designing with the user in mind: how user-centred design (UCD) can work for ...Jennifer Cham
Free talk video (you just need to get the access code by email) is here: https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/multimedia/flvmedia.php?i=1377
Presented at ISMB ECCB 2013 conference: http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013
It is recognised that bioinformatics resources often suffer from usability problems: for example, they can be too complex for the infrequent user to navigate, and they can “lack sophistication” compared to other websites that people use in their daily lives. In this presentation, Dr. Jenny Cham, User-Experience Analyst at the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK, will describe specific case studies to show how user-centred design (UCD) principles can be applied to bioinformatics services.
As well as improved usability, the benefits of UCD can include more effective decision-making for design ideas and technologies during development; enhanced team-working and communication; cost effectiveness; and ultimately a bioinformatics service that more closely meets the needs of its target research community.
Summary of ICSE 2011 Panel on "What Industry wants from Research". This is a summary of all the presentations from that panel that I presented in an invited talk at the CSER meeting in Toronto, November, 2011.
Talk at Understandable AI, SummerPIT 2019, Aarhus University, 14th August 2019
https://alandix.com/academic/talks/PIT-2019-bias-and-explanation/
In this talk I will pick up threads of research dating back to early work in the 1990s on gender and ethnic bias in black-box machine-learning systems, as well as more recent developments such as deep learning and concerns such as those that gave rise to the EPSRC human–like computing programme. In particular I will present nascent work on an AIX Toolkit (AI explainability): a structured collection of techniques designed to help developers of intelligent systems create more comprehensible representations of the reasoning. Crucial to the AIX Toolkit is the understanding that human–human explanations are rarely utterly precise or reproducible, but they are sufficient to inspire confidence and trust in a collaborative endeavour.
24 Hours of UX, 2023: Preventing the FutureJoshua Randall
On our current trajectory, the future of UX design will look much like the present, only worse. The gold rush mentality towards UX design as a “career” combined with Gresham’s Law (“bad money drives out good”) applied to design combined with automation from software platforms means we are increasing the pace at which bad designs proliferate. In this talk Joshua Randall will cite data from larger research companies like Baymard and Nielsen Norman Group as well as draw on examples from his career to paint a picture of the coming dystopia.
Towards Mining Software Repositories Research that MattersTao Xie
Towards Mining Software Repositories Research that Matters. Talk slides at Next Generation of Mining Software Repositories '14 (Pre-FSE 2014 Event), Nov 15–16. HKUST, Hong Kong http://ng2014.msrworld.org/
Prototyping for knowledge based entrepreneurshipVlad Manea
Two lectures on prototyping for the Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship M.Sc. course at UCPH Innovation Hub, the University of Copenhagen in December 2015.
The contains a brief overview of our case study from an IT-research project aimed at improving coordination in elder care centers. As part of the project, we built a series of prototypes.
It then continues with a systematic description of prototypes and their properties, along with concrete examples. Several simple pieces of advice, as well as common pitfalls, are presented.
Lessons from the Learning Sciences for Cyber Security Education. Cyber Security Education requires thinking about “how computing works.”
For programmers, why some practices create holes/opportunities.
For end-users, why some activities compromise security.
We need everyone to learn about cyber security.
What can learning sciences tell us about encouraging that kind of learning?
Lesson #1: Context matters.
The Story of Computing for All at Georgia Tech.
Lesson #2: Identity matters.
“Teaching” Graphics Designers who reject CS about CS.
Lesson #3: Structure matters.
Subgoal Labels can Dramatically Improve Learning
Synergy of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Software EngineeringTao Xie
Keynote Talk by Tao Xie at International NSF sponsored Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2013) http://promisedata.org/raise/2013/
Summary of ICSE 2011 Panel on "What Industry wants from Research". This is a summary of all the presentations from that panel that I presented in an invited talk at the CSER meeting in Toronto, November, 2011.
Talk at Understandable AI, SummerPIT 2019, Aarhus University, 14th August 2019
https://alandix.com/academic/talks/PIT-2019-bias-and-explanation/
In this talk I will pick up threads of research dating back to early work in the 1990s on gender and ethnic bias in black-box machine-learning systems, as well as more recent developments such as deep learning and concerns such as those that gave rise to the EPSRC human–like computing programme. In particular I will present nascent work on an AIX Toolkit (AI explainability): a structured collection of techniques designed to help developers of intelligent systems create more comprehensible representations of the reasoning. Crucial to the AIX Toolkit is the understanding that human–human explanations are rarely utterly precise or reproducible, but they are sufficient to inspire confidence and trust in a collaborative endeavour.
24 Hours of UX, 2023: Preventing the FutureJoshua Randall
On our current trajectory, the future of UX design will look much like the present, only worse. The gold rush mentality towards UX design as a “career” combined with Gresham’s Law (“bad money drives out good”) applied to design combined with automation from software platforms means we are increasing the pace at which bad designs proliferate. In this talk Joshua Randall will cite data from larger research companies like Baymard and Nielsen Norman Group as well as draw on examples from his career to paint a picture of the coming dystopia.
Towards Mining Software Repositories Research that MattersTao Xie
Towards Mining Software Repositories Research that Matters. Talk slides at Next Generation of Mining Software Repositories '14 (Pre-FSE 2014 Event), Nov 15–16. HKUST, Hong Kong http://ng2014.msrworld.org/
Prototyping for knowledge based entrepreneurshipVlad Manea
Two lectures on prototyping for the Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship M.Sc. course at UCPH Innovation Hub, the University of Copenhagen in December 2015.
The contains a brief overview of our case study from an IT-research project aimed at improving coordination in elder care centers. As part of the project, we built a series of prototypes.
It then continues with a systematic description of prototypes and their properties, along with concrete examples. Several simple pieces of advice, as well as common pitfalls, are presented.
Lessons from the Learning Sciences for Cyber Security Education. Cyber Security Education requires thinking about “how computing works.”
For programmers, why some practices create holes/opportunities.
For end-users, why some activities compromise security.
We need everyone to learn about cyber security.
What can learning sciences tell us about encouraging that kind of learning?
Lesson #1: Context matters.
The Story of Computing for All at Georgia Tech.
Lesson #2: Identity matters.
“Teaching” Graphics Designers who reject CS about CS.
Lesson #3: Structure matters.
Subgoal Labels can Dramatically Improve Learning
Synergy of Human and Artificial Intelligence in Software EngineeringTao Xie
Keynote Talk by Tao Xie at International NSF sponsored Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2013) http://promisedata.org/raise/2013/
In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris gives an overview of important concepts in Human Factors engineering. She describes cognitive and social factors, interface factors, and task and environment factors that impact human performance. Importantly, she stresses that failures should be seen as normal and expected, and designers should endeavor to minimize them or prevent them. The two types of human failures - errors (inadvertent) and non-compliance (deliberate) - can be addressed through better interfaces and, sometimes, training. When human failures occur, the root cause usually can be traced to human decisions. This talk was given as a tutorial to the Center for Advanced Power Engineering Fall 2023 meeting, at Clemson University, SC, USA.
In this three hour workshop I present an introduction to the UCD process, an overview of the basic technologies of the web and a survey of current Mobile Web Design trends.
Исследование воздействия когнитивной и информационной нагрузки на эффективнос...Yury Solonitsyn
Представлены: обзор исследуемой проблемы, методика выполнения эксперимента, собранные данные и методы их математической обработки. Эксперимент выполнен в мае-июне 2016. Математическая обработка - ноябрь-декабрь 2016. Интерпретация данных, выводы, рекомендации - в процессе подготовки.
Презентация к докладу на конференции XLVI Научной и учебно-методической конференции, февраль 2017, Университет ИТМО, Санкт-Петербург.
WIAD 2017 — Понятный продукт — От информационной архитектуры к структуре инте...Yury Solonitsyn
Пользовательский интерфейс связывает между собой продукт (приложение, сайт) и пользователя. Структура интерфейса, как зеркало, отражает одновременно заложенную разработчиками информационную архитектуру продукта и его ментальную модель, формирующуюся в сознании пользователя. В зависимости от назначения продукта и уровня подготовки пользователей можно выбирать подход к представлению информационной архитектуры в структуре проектируемого интерфейса.
Выступление на конференции WIAD-2017 — 18 февраля 2017, Санкт-Петербург, Россия.
Интерфейс — Совместная работа аналитика и проектировщикаYury Solonitsyn
Краткий рассказ про то, как аналитик и проектировщик могут построить совместную работу над пользовательским интерфейсом, чем это полезно для них и для создаваемого продукта.
Все по полочкам — IA в интерфейсах и не толькоYury Solonitsyn
Информационная архитектура в том или ином виде встречается во всех сферах деятельности человека. От полок супермаркетов до системы навигации сайта или настраиваемых панелей инструментов профессиональных программ.
Информационные и ментальные модели - WIAD 2015Yury Solonitsyn
Проектируя программное обеспечение, мы создаем его структуру, работаем над его архитектурой, в том числе информационной - создаем информационную модель. Человек, изучая программу, создает в своей голове ментальную модель - представление о нашем продукте, его возможностях и функциях. Наше представление и продукте и представление о нем в сознании пользователя встречаются в пользовательском интерфейсе, который при этом становится не просто способом взаимодействия с программой, но и учебным пособием.
UX beyond UI: Иерархия потребностей и мотивация пользователейYury Solonitsyn
Проектировщики и менеджеры, занимающиеся созданием программных продуктов, сталкиваются с необходимостью классификации и анализа потребностей пользователей. Эта задача, часто становящаяся проблемой в области ИТ, давно и успешно решается в таких сферах, как экономика и маркетинг. Давайте посмотрим, как они это делают.
Хорошая техническая документация окружает программный продукт - помогает его проектировать и продавать, помогает его осваивать, помогает его поддерживать и продолжать разработку.
Документация определяет User Experience или Customer Experience далеко за пределами пользовательского интерфейса.
Презентация к выступлению на встрече UX-специалистов в консорциуме Кодекс.
How to Position Your Globus Data Portal for Success Ten Good PracticesGlobus
Science gateways allow science and engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, and instruments. Science gateways have gained a lot of traction in the last twenty years, as evidenced by projects such as the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) and the Center of Excellence on Science Gateways (SGX3) in the US, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and its platforms in Australia, and the projects around Virtual Research Environments in Europe. A few mature frameworks have evolved with their different strengths and foci and have been taken up by a larger community such as the Globus Data Portal, Hubzero, Tapis, and Galaxy. However, even when gateways are built on successful frameworks, they continue to face the challenges of ongoing maintenance costs and how to meet the ever-expanding needs of the community they serve with enhanced features. It is not uncommon that gateways with compelling use cases are nonetheless unable to get past the prototype phase and become a full production service, or if they do, they don't survive more than a couple of years. While there is no guaranteed pathway to success, it seems likely that for any gateway there is a need for a strong community and/or solid funding streams to create and sustain its success. With over twenty years of examples to draw from, this presentation goes into detail for ten factors common to successful and enduring gateways that effectively serve as best practices for any new or developing gateway.
Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Enterprise Resource Planning System includes various modules that reduce any business's workload. Additionally, it organizes the workflows, which drives towards enhancing productivity. Here are a detailed explanation of the ERP modules. Going through the points will help you understand how the software is changing the work dynamics.
To know more details here: https://blogs.nyggs.com/nyggs/enterprise-resource-planning-erp-system-modules/
Enhancing Project Management Efficiency_ Leveraging AI Tools like ChatGPT.pdfJay Das
With the advent of artificial intelligence or AI tools, project management processes are undergoing a transformative shift. By using tools like ChatGPT, and Bard organizations can empower their leaders and managers to plan, execute, and monitor projects more effectively.
Experience our free, in-depth three-part Tendenci Platform Corporate Membership Management workshop series! In Session 1 on May 14th, 2024, we began with an Introduction and Setup, mastering the configuration of your Corporate Membership Module settings to establish membership types, applications, and more. Then, on May 16th, 2024, in Session 2, we focused on binding individual members to a Corporate Membership and Corporate Reps, teaching you how to add individual members and assign Corporate Representatives to manage dues, renewals, and associated members. Finally, on May 28th, 2024, in Session 3, we covered questions and concerns, addressing any queries or issues you may have.
For more Tendenci AMS events, check out www.tendenci.com/events
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
If you want to watch the on-demand webinar, please click here: https://www.xfilespro.com/webinars/salesforce-document-management-2-0-smarter-faster-better/
Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
Understanding Globus Data Transfers with NetSageGlobus
NetSage is an open privacy-aware network measurement, analysis, and visualization service designed to help end-users visualize and reason about large data transfers. NetSage traditionally has used a combination of passive measurements, including SNMP and flow data, as well as active measurements, mainly perfSONAR, to provide longitudinal network performance data visualization. It has been deployed by dozens of networks world wide, and is supported domestically by the Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC), NSF #2328479. We have recently expanded the NetSage data sources to include logs for Globus data transfers, following the same privacy-preserving approach as for Flow data. Using the logs for the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as an example, this talk will walk through several different example use cases that NetSage can answer, including: Who is using Globus to share data with my institution, and what kind of performance are they able to achieve? How many transfers has Globus supported for us? Which sites are we sharing the most data with, and how is that changing over time? How is my site using Globus to move data internally, and what kind of performance do we see for those transfers? What percentage of data transfers at my institution used Globus, and how did the overall data transfer performance compare to the Globus users?
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
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This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
Prosigns: Transforming Business with Tailored Technology SolutionsProsigns
Unlocking Business Potential: Tailored Technology Solutions by Prosigns
Discover how Prosigns, a leading technology solutions provider, partners with businesses to drive innovation and success. Our presentation showcases our comprehensive range of services, including custom software development, web and mobile app development, AI & ML solutions, blockchain integration, DevOps services, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 support.
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Prosigns: Transforming Business with Tailored Technology Solutions
Graphic design and UI efficiency
1. Graphic design
and UI efficiency
Andrei Balkanskii, Artem Smolin PhD, Yury Solonitsyn
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg
UXCampEurope 16, Berlin
2016
2. Authors
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg:
• Andrei Balkanskii — senior teacher, Chair of Graphic Technologies;
• Artem Smolin, PhD — Head of the Chair of Graphic Technologies;
• Yury Solonitsyn — practicing interaction designer with background in
graphic design, technical writing and web development … a master
student of the Chair of Graphic Technologies ;)
3. Problem to be investigated
• Now “Flat UI” style is popular;
• But some well-known industry experts (e.g. Nielsen Norman) say,
that such graphic decoration reduces UI efficiency [1, 2];
• UI efficiency is critical. Especially in enterprise systems, financial
solutions, medicine and transportation [3, 4].
4. Some examples
UI fragment, decorated in “traditional” style
(“Heroes of Might and Magic III – HD Edition”, 3DO/UbiSoft, 1999)
UI fragment, “Flat UI” style
(Windows Phone Maps, HERE/Microsoft corp., 2016)
5. Flat UI — More examples
Piotr Kubicki, Szczecin Airport | redesign concept,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/37478667/Szczecin
-Airport-redesign-concept
David Perger, FADE APP UI KIT | FREEBIE,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/36367535/FAD
E-APP-UI-KIT-FREEBIE-
Roma Smirnov, Yandex.Electrichki
https://www.behance.net/gallery/36
466693/jandekselektrichki
6. Why should we care about?
• UI efficiency depends on both UI logic (structure) & UI graphics;
• UI efficiency = Time;
• Time = Money.
$$$ :)
7. Just one example … of many
Tickets terminal, S-Bahn station, Schonefeld Airport …
more than 20 minutes in line.
Pressing all and anything
on the screen, trying to
figure out, how to deal
with it.
8. Boring academic stuff — Definitions
• Cognitive load — the phenomenon, causing progressive growth of
mental efforts spent by user to operate the UI [3];
• NASA HCI research group consider the cognitive load as one of the
serious threats for the adequate human-to-machine interaction and
for the mission success [3];
• Information load — amount of data or factors user is to process to
complete the given task;
• The combined effect of cognitive and informational load leads to
decreased work efficiency [1, 2, 3, 4].
9. Boring academic stuff — Analogues
• Publications: Burmistrov et al [5], Fabio et al [6];
• Burmistrov et al:
• detailed review of the research method and results;
• but the test tasks have an artificial nature.
• Fabio et al:
• detailed methodology, information load measured;
• but results are mostly fundamental.
• Both projects — incorporated limited amount of respondents
(about 20 persons each, all university students).
11. Our approach to the experiment
• Involve as much users as possible via special experimental web-site;
• Ensure maximum compatibility of this web site;
• Use social networks to spread a link to the site;
• Metrics of the HCI effectiveness:
• type I () errors — amount of “inactive objects” considered to be an active
element … or just “tries”;
• type II () errors — amount of “active element not found” errors;
• task completion time.
13. Please, notice:
These are preliminary results, based on raw data.
Our project will continue with data processing and interpretation.
If you are running an academic project, we can share the raw data with
you. We are also interested in exchanging results with teams, running
similar researches.
Contact address: Yury Solonitsyn, solonitsyn.yury@adesignlab.ru
14. Results — “Select a button” task
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Results — “Buttons vs dictractions2” task
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Respondents: 118 134 117
19. Thank you!
Any questions?
Andrei Balkanskii abalkanskij@yandex.ru
Artem Smolin, PhD artikus@inbox.ru
Yury Solonitsyn solonitsyn.yury@adesignlab.ru
ITMO University
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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