This document provides an overview of methods for identifying and modeling user needs and goals for interactive systems. It discusses contextual design as a starting approach and outlines observation techniques and contextual interviews for identifying user needs. It also discusses focus groups. For modeling user needs, it covers scenarios and personas. Scenarios describe typical tasks by outlining the goal and initial conditions, while personas are archetypes of users defined by their goals and attributes to represent different user types.
INDYMO is a recently created start-up that works in the field of the management of water resources and water quality. Our focus is on innovative ways of monitoring water quality and ecology using underwater drones (dynamic). Until now we have been working with an underwater drone equipped with water quality sensors and a video camera. A new drone is currently in the development stage, and our goal is to make it an efficient and powerful tool, suitable for various uses and applications in the field of water.
There is a growing understanding in the value (ROI) derived by managing complex asset information in various formats to maintain quality and completeness during project execution, handover and ongoing facility operation. Technology has the ability to adopt a granular, object-centric way of managing asset information with a known level of quality for the life of a digital asset. Key to achieving this is effective capture standards which can then be managed across the information systems deployed during the project and asset’s lifecycle.
Learn how AVEVA ISM is being used to deliver a Digital Information Hub enabling WorleyParsons and their customers to capture and enforce information quality across an enterprise without mandating changes to preferred software systems.
Presented by: Jim Purvis—WorleyParsons
Discover how AVEVA can transform your business today
www.aveva.com
Mike McBride will provide a look at the Industrial IoT (IIoT) landscape and the OT/IT convergence. He will cover several use cases including healthcare, entertainment and smart buildings. He will cover the challenges IIoT networking faces with emerging technologies and how edge computing will provide increased performance, security and reliability. Mike will discuss the various Edge Computing standards & opensource forums along with proposed architectures. And Mike will present new solutions being proposed (ICN, slicing, Blockchain) to support the bandwidth, latency and security requirements within Industrial verticals.
About the speaker: As Sr. Director of Innovation & Strategy, within Huawei's IP Network BU, Mike leads Industrial IoT, Edge Computing and IP/SDN architecture, standardization, and strategy across product lines and industry forums. He leads architecture and standardization activities within the IIc and BBF and has served as an IETF Working Group chair for 15 years. Mike has led emerging technology projects within opensource communities and played a key role in the formation of OPEN-O (Now ONAP). He is an Ericsson alum where he developed and directed SDN/NFV network architectures. And for many years with Cisco, Mike supported customers, worked in development teams and managed mobility, wireless and video projects across BUs. Mike began his career supporting customers at Apple Computer. He resides in Orange County, CA
Kent Melville and Annie Wise from Inductive Automation, and water/wastewater controls professionals Henry Palechek and Jason Hamlin, cover 10 steps for building a sustainable SCADA system that survives and even thrives using only your operational expenditure budget.
You'll learn about:
• What type of hardware and operating systems to use
• Utilizing smart devices and MQTT
• The advantages of server-centric architecture and web-based deployment
• Rapid development with templates and UDTs
• Powerful alarming and reporting tools
• And more
Internet of Things is an idea under development. It is the future connecting the Smart devices to the Internet. Interested to know more about the current developments and the future road map of this project then this presentation is for you.
Electronic Notice Board Using Raspberry Pi and Android PhoneBrijender k
This project is about displaying the text messages sent by the user from his/her android phone from a remote place and the message is displayed on LCD/LED screen in kiosk mode using Raspberry Pi. Android is we client and Raspberry Pi acts a web server
INDYMO is a recently created start-up that works in the field of the management of water resources and water quality. Our focus is on innovative ways of monitoring water quality and ecology using underwater drones (dynamic). Until now we have been working with an underwater drone equipped with water quality sensors and a video camera. A new drone is currently in the development stage, and our goal is to make it an efficient and powerful tool, suitable for various uses and applications in the field of water.
There is a growing understanding in the value (ROI) derived by managing complex asset information in various formats to maintain quality and completeness during project execution, handover and ongoing facility operation. Technology has the ability to adopt a granular, object-centric way of managing asset information with a known level of quality for the life of a digital asset. Key to achieving this is effective capture standards which can then be managed across the information systems deployed during the project and asset’s lifecycle.
Learn how AVEVA ISM is being used to deliver a Digital Information Hub enabling WorleyParsons and their customers to capture and enforce information quality across an enterprise without mandating changes to preferred software systems.
Presented by: Jim Purvis—WorleyParsons
Discover how AVEVA can transform your business today
www.aveva.com
Mike McBride will provide a look at the Industrial IoT (IIoT) landscape and the OT/IT convergence. He will cover several use cases including healthcare, entertainment and smart buildings. He will cover the challenges IIoT networking faces with emerging technologies and how edge computing will provide increased performance, security and reliability. Mike will discuss the various Edge Computing standards & opensource forums along with proposed architectures. And Mike will present new solutions being proposed (ICN, slicing, Blockchain) to support the bandwidth, latency and security requirements within Industrial verticals.
About the speaker: As Sr. Director of Innovation & Strategy, within Huawei's IP Network BU, Mike leads Industrial IoT, Edge Computing and IP/SDN architecture, standardization, and strategy across product lines and industry forums. He leads architecture and standardization activities within the IIc and BBF and has served as an IETF Working Group chair for 15 years. Mike has led emerging technology projects within opensource communities and played a key role in the formation of OPEN-O (Now ONAP). He is an Ericsson alum where he developed and directed SDN/NFV network architectures. And for many years with Cisco, Mike supported customers, worked in development teams and managed mobility, wireless and video projects across BUs. Mike began his career supporting customers at Apple Computer. He resides in Orange County, CA
Kent Melville and Annie Wise from Inductive Automation, and water/wastewater controls professionals Henry Palechek and Jason Hamlin, cover 10 steps for building a sustainable SCADA system that survives and even thrives using only your operational expenditure budget.
You'll learn about:
• What type of hardware and operating systems to use
• Utilizing smart devices and MQTT
• The advantages of server-centric architecture and web-based deployment
• Rapid development with templates and UDTs
• Powerful alarming and reporting tools
• And more
Internet of Things is an idea under development. It is the future connecting the Smart devices to the Internet. Interested to know more about the current developments and the future road map of this project then this presentation is for you.
Electronic Notice Board Using Raspberry Pi and Android PhoneBrijender k
This project is about displaying the text messages sent by the user from his/her android phone from a remote place and the message is displayed on LCD/LED screen in kiosk mode using Raspberry Pi. Android is we client and Raspberry Pi acts a web server
Drones are shaping the construction industry as we know it. There are obvious - and less obvious - applications of these flying wonders for the construction and engineering industries. In this post, we look at the ‘state of the art’ as it is today, and touch on a few key themes for the future.
Standard radar detection process requires that the sensor output is compared to a predetermined threshold. The
threshold is selected based on a-priori knowledge available and/or certain assumptions. However, any
knowledge and/or assumptions become in adequate due to the presence of multiple targets with varying signal
return and usually non stationary background. Thus, any predetermined threshold may result in either increased
false alarm rate or increased track loss. Even approaches where the threshold is adaptively varied will not
perform well in situations when the signal return from the target of interest is too low compared to the average
level of the background .Track-before-detect techniques eliminate the need for a detection threshold and provide
detecting and tracking targets with lower signal-to-noise ratios than standard methods. However, although trackbefore-
detect techniques eliminate
the need for detection threshold at sensor's signal processing stage, they often use tuning thresholds at the output
of the filtering stage .This paper presents a computerized simulation model for target detection process.
Moreover, the proposed model method is based on the target motion models, the output of the detection
process can easily be employed for maneuvering target tracking.
Bond Bryan Digital have published a number of blog pieces over the past year or so, about the Villa Savoye LEGO Architecture set. LEGO has been used as a medium to explain some of the core concepts and outputs of BIM underpinned by open standards and industry formats such as IFC, COBie and BCF. This session explained the background to this project as well as a LIVE demonstration using a number of software solutions and devices to explain how even a child’s toy can be turned into BIM!
The presentation covers following areas:
- Typical Problems in Construction Industry
- What is BIM?
-BIM Process
- Influence of BIM on Industry Problems
- BIM Application
- BIM Advantages
- BIM Workflow
- BIM & Project Management
- BIM & Design Team Members
- BIM around the Globe
- Construction Industry with BIM
All work presented in the presentation is carried out by graduates of NUST, Islambad including Abdul Mughees Khan, Syed Kashif Ali Shah, Sharjeel Ahmad Tariq, Malik Awais Ahmad and Hamza Khan Shinwari.
Special credit of the work goes to Engr Tahir Shamshad, Vice President NESPAK and Engr Zia Ud Din, Asst Professor NUST under guidance and mentor ship the whole work was performed.
For more details feel free to contact: amugheeskhan@gmail.com
In today’s global scenario, water wastage and water shortage are an over rising problem. With the world population rising minute by minute, the need for water is increasing and therefore water conservation is the need of the hour. Today’s industries need huge amount of manpower for system supervision. We have come out with a solution where we use sensors to measure the water level of the storage system and be informed about the same, saving human efforts. Here, sensors are fit in the storage tank at different levels. The sensors are further connected to a microcontroller. The sensors detect the water level and inform it to the microcontroller which displays the storage tank status on the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). A gate mechanism is also attached to this system which is triggered when the water level reaches the brim of the storage system.
IOT based Water Level Monitoring system is an improved system which will inform the users about the level of liquid and will prevent it from overflowing. To demonstrate this the system makes use of containers, where the ultrasonic sensors placed over the containers to detect the liquid level and compare it with the container’s depth. The system makes use of AVR family microcontroller, Arduino, LCD screen, Wi-Fi modem for sending data and a buzzer. A 12 V transformer is used for power supply in this system. The LCD screen is used to display the status of the level of liquid in the containers. The liquid level is highlighted as colored to show the level of liquid present in the container with the help of a web page to the user. The buzzer starts ringing when the set limit of the liquid is crossed. Thus this system helps
Keynote Speech
Mr. Kevin POOLEChairman, Committee on Environment, Innovation and Technology, Construction Industry Council
HKIPM‐HKIBIM Joint Conference: BIM in Project Management
Details of Conference
Date: 2‐Apr‐2014 (Wed)
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Organizers:
Hong Kong Institute of Project Management (HKIPM)
http://www.hkipm.org.hk/
The Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling (HKIBIM)
http://www.hkibim.org
Sole Sponsor:
建造業議會 - Construction Industry Council
http://www.hkcic.org/
Io t based water level monitoring system of dams insangamesh kumbar
IoT-BASED WATER LEVEL MONITORING SYSTEM OF DAMS IN KARNATAKA,This project proposes a wireless solution, based on Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) network for the monitoring and controlling of the dams water level parameter.
The equipment uses an ultrasonic sensor device to accurately measure and determine the waters in real time.
The standalone Water Level Monitoring System is equipped with solar panel and makes use of an ultrasonic sensor to measure the rate of change of water level using the principle similar to radar and sonar.
The sensor calculates the time interval between sending the signal and receiving the echo to determine the water level.
The information collected is then transmitted to a central server at a predefined interval, via SMS.
Commercial Drones: Current State of the IndustryColin Snow
This presentation gives an overview of a report on current state of the U.S. commercial drone industry which analyzes the business impact and market opportunities that the proposed rules have for manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and investors.
The presentation answers the following questions:
• Are UAS really an economic game changer?
• What are the proposed FAA rules and what do they mean for businesses?
• Where are the biggest opportunities for commercial UAS
• What can we expect in the future?
Internet of things - Business Opportunities in the Connected WorldJag Randhawa
Internet of Things (IoT) is next biggest thing since the birth of the Internet. It is going to impact our lives and businesses beyond anyone’s imaginations.
Arduino and sensors for water level, soil moisture, temperature & relative humidity for application in the ClimaAdapt Project areas - Nagarjuna Sagar Project Left and Right Canals in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for water use efficiency - Canal and On Farm
Drones are shaping the construction industry as we know it. There are obvious - and less obvious - applications of these flying wonders for the construction and engineering industries. In this post, we look at the ‘state of the art’ as it is today, and touch on a few key themes for the future.
Standard radar detection process requires that the sensor output is compared to a predetermined threshold. The
threshold is selected based on a-priori knowledge available and/or certain assumptions. However, any
knowledge and/or assumptions become in adequate due to the presence of multiple targets with varying signal
return and usually non stationary background. Thus, any predetermined threshold may result in either increased
false alarm rate or increased track loss. Even approaches where the threshold is adaptively varied will not
perform well in situations when the signal return from the target of interest is too low compared to the average
level of the background .Track-before-detect techniques eliminate the need for a detection threshold and provide
detecting and tracking targets with lower signal-to-noise ratios than standard methods. However, although trackbefore-
detect techniques eliminate
the need for detection threshold at sensor's signal processing stage, they often use tuning thresholds at the output
of the filtering stage .This paper presents a computerized simulation model for target detection process.
Moreover, the proposed model method is based on the target motion models, the output of the detection
process can easily be employed for maneuvering target tracking.
Bond Bryan Digital have published a number of blog pieces over the past year or so, about the Villa Savoye LEGO Architecture set. LEGO has been used as a medium to explain some of the core concepts and outputs of BIM underpinned by open standards and industry formats such as IFC, COBie and BCF. This session explained the background to this project as well as a LIVE demonstration using a number of software solutions and devices to explain how even a child’s toy can be turned into BIM!
The presentation covers following areas:
- Typical Problems in Construction Industry
- What is BIM?
-BIM Process
- Influence of BIM on Industry Problems
- BIM Application
- BIM Advantages
- BIM Workflow
- BIM & Project Management
- BIM & Design Team Members
- BIM around the Globe
- Construction Industry with BIM
All work presented in the presentation is carried out by graduates of NUST, Islambad including Abdul Mughees Khan, Syed Kashif Ali Shah, Sharjeel Ahmad Tariq, Malik Awais Ahmad and Hamza Khan Shinwari.
Special credit of the work goes to Engr Tahir Shamshad, Vice President NESPAK and Engr Zia Ud Din, Asst Professor NUST under guidance and mentor ship the whole work was performed.
For more details feel free to contact: amugheeskhan@gmail.com
In today’s global scenario, water wastage and water shortage are an over rising problem. With the world population rising minute by minute, the need for water is increasing and therefore water conservation is the need of the hour. Today’s industries need huge amount of manpower for system supervision. We have come out with a solution where we use sensors to measure the water level of the storage system and be informed about the same, saving human efforts. Here, sensors are fit in the storage tank at different levels. The sensors are further connected to a microcontroller. The sensors detect the water level and inform it to the microcontroller which displays the storage tank status on the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). A gate mechanism is also attached to this system which is triggered when the water level reaches the brim of the storage system.
IOT based Water Level Monitoring system is an improved system which will inform the users about the level of liquid and will prevent it from overflowing. To demonstrate this the system makes use of containers, where the ultrasonic sensors placed over the containers to detect the liquid level and compare it with the container’s depth. The system makes use of AVR family microcontroller, Arduino, LCD screen, Wi-Fi modem for sending data and a buzzer. A 12 V transformer is used for power supply in this system. The LCD screen is used to display the status of the level of liquid in the containers. The liquid level is highlighted as colored to show the level of liquid present in the container with the help of a web page to the user. The buzzer starts ringing when the set limit of the liquid is crossed. Thus this system helps
Keynote Speech
Mr. Kevin POOLEChairman, Committee on Environment, Innovation and Technology, Construction Industry Council
HKIPM‐HKIBIM Joint Conference: BIM in Project Management
Details of Conference
Date: 2‐Apr‐2014 (Wed)
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Organizers:
Hong Kong Institute of Project Management (HKIPM)
http://www.hkipm.org.hk/
The Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling (HKIBIM)
http://www.hkibim.org
Sole Sponsor:
建造業議會 - Construction Industry Council
http://www.hkcic.org/
Io t based water level monitoring system of dams insangamesh kumbar
IoT-BASED WATER LEVEL MONITORING SYSTEM OF DAMS IN KARNATAKA,This project proposes a wireless solution, based on Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) network for the monitoring and controlling of the dams water level parameter.
The equipment uses an ultrasonic sensor device to accurately measure and determine the waters in real time.
The standalone Water Level Monitoring System is equipped with solar panel and makes use of an ultrasonic sensor to measure the rate of change of water level using the principle similar to radar and sonar.
The sensor calculates the time interval between sending the signal and receiving the echo to determine the water level.
The information collected is then transmitted to a central server at a predefined interval, via SMS.
Commercial Drones: Current State of the IndustryColin Snow
This presentation gives an overview of a report on current state of the U.S. commercial drone industry which analyzes the business impact and market opportunities that the proposed rules have for manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and investors.
The presentation answers the following questions:
• Are UAS really an economic game changer?
• What are the proposed FAA rules and what do they mean for businesses?
• Where are the biggest opportunities for commercial UAS
• What can we expect in the future?
Internet of things - Business Opportunities in the Connected WorldJag Randhawa
Internet of Things (IoT) is next biggest thing since the birth of the Internet. It is going to impact our lives and businesses beyond anyone’s imaginations.
Arduino and sensors for water level, soil moisture, temperature & relative humidity for application in the ClimaAdapt Project areas - Nagarjuna Sagar Project Left and Right Canals in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for water use efficiency - Canal and On Farm
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.
ui42 World Usability Day 2013 Martin Krupa Ako zapojit UX do vyvoja SWui42
Slovakia World Usability Day 2013: Martin Krupa z ui42 rozprava o tom, ako zapojit UX postupy do vyvoja softveru. Zalozene na skusenostiach s UX projektami od roku 2008.
Siblings or Step Siblings? Common Connections Between Technical Communication...Chris LaRoche
The most recent version of a presentation to a technical communication audience describing the increasing connections and merging of the technical communication and UX/Usability professions.
Traning workshop on ‘Designing an conducting user studies”
Module 1 - Methods and Techniques (Kristien Ooms)
@ ICC&GIS
June 15th, 2016
Albena, Bulgaria
Mobile Applications Development - Lecture 3
User-Centered Design
Information Architecture (sitemaps, wireframes, ...)
UI Design
This presentation has been developed in the context of the Mobile Applications Development course at the Computer Science Department of the University of L’Aquila (Italy).
http://www.di.univaq.it/malavolta
This proposal of work contains details and samples of the user centric design process I follow. I have been trying to find a good graph that represents the process, but at the end I have decided to make my own! ;)
User Interface Design: Definitions, Processes and PrinciplesMoodLabs
An introduction to User Interface Design, often called UX / UI. Presented by David Little, User Interface Designer, DDH from King's College London Digital Humanities program.
Using the Crowd to Understand and Adapt User InterfacesJeffrey Nichols
Keynote given at the Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) conference. June 25, 2013
Abstract: Engineering user interfaces has long implied careful design carried out using formal methods applied by human experts and automated systems. While these methods have advantages, especially for creating interfaces that have the flexibility to adapt to users and situations, they can also be time consuming, expensive, and there are relatively few experts able to apply them effectively. In particular, many engineering methods require the construction of one or more models, each of which can only be created through many hours of work by an expert. In this keynote, I will explore how social and human computation methods can be applied to reduce the barriers to achieving user interface flexibility and ultimately to using engineering methods. In a first example, I will illustrate how groups of users can work together to modify and improve user interfaces through end-user programming examples from the CoScripter and Highlight projects. I will then discuss some initial work on using a crowd of novice workers to create models of existing user interfaces. I hope this keynote will inspire the engineering community to consider alternate approaches that creatively combine formal methods with the power of crowds.
Integrating User Centered Design with Agile DevelopmentJulia Borkenhagen
The Agile Manifesto emphasizes the importance of individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and that's precisely where the User Centered Design approach comes in. UCD always focuses on the users first, keeps them involved during the entire project and emphasizes the need for iterations and team collaboration.
Planeación de diseño centrado en el usuario: de la experiencia a la percepciónLuis Carlos Aceves
Cualquier actividad de diseño debe tener al usuario como el punto central de la misma; llegar a los usuarios a través de un nivel emocional puede hacer la diferencia entre el éxito o fracaso de una organización, persona o concepto con presencia en medios interactivos.
Sin embargo, ¿se realiza una buena planeación en el diseño de estas experiencias? En este artículo se abordarán algunos datos y casos internacionales que sugieren la falta de una estrategia en el diseño de experiencias de usuario en medios interactivos, así como recomendaciones desde distintos ámbitos para lograr una mejor ejecución en esta práctica.
CIAPEM 2010 - Mas cerca de los usuarios: pruebas de usabilidadLuis Carlos Aceves
Presentación para realizar y contextualizar una demostración de pruebas de usabilidad con Morae. Dada en el CIAPEM 2010 en Monterrey por Luis Carlos Aceves e Isabel Murillo, consultores de Web Usability S.C. México
CIAPEM 2009: Observatorio Ciudadano del Portal Nuevo LeónLuis Carlos Aceves
Presentación dada en CIAPEM 2009 por Luis Carlos Aceves. Se presentan las experiencias del Observatorio Ciudadano del Portal de Nuevo Leon como una representación del Gobierno 2.0
Se presentan conceptos relacionados a la definición de requerimientos y funcionalidades en un sitio web. Se muestran alguna técnicas útiles para hacerlo
Usabilidad y diseño centrado en la experiencia del usuarioLuis Carlos Aceves
Introducción a la usabilidad presentando la relación con el diseño centrado en el usuario. Se muestran ejemplos que indican los elementos relevantes de cada concepto
Fundamentos sobre el funcionamiento de blogs como formas de promocion y publicidad en linea. Uso de herramientas de social bookmarking como promocion de contenidos
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !
Methods for Identifying and Modeling Users Needs
1. Web Usability: Session 4
Methods for Identifying and Modeling Users Needs and
Goals of Interactive Systems
Dr. Victor Manuel González y González
Centro de Innovación, Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería y Tecnología (CIIDIT)
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
victor.gonzalezgz@uanl.edu.mx
http://it.ciidit.uanl.mx/~victor/
2. Web Usability / / User Needs and Goals
Acerca del instructor
Dr. Víctor Manuel González y González
Profesor Investigador (Titular A) – FIME - UANL
Doctorado - PhD. - University of California at Irvine, EEUU.
Maestría - M.C. - University of California at Irvine, EEUU.
Maestría – M.C. - University of Essex, Reino Unido.
Perfil
• Investigador en Computación en el área de Interacción Humano-Computadora y Tecnologías de
Información. Afiliado a CIIDIT (UANL), CRITO (UC Irvine), CDI (U Manchester). Su área de
especialización es el diseño, desarrollo y evaluación de sistemas interactivos. Es miembro del SNI
(Nivel 1) y miembro de la red de investigación en Tecnologías de Información de CONACYT.
Áreas de Investigación
• Interacción Humano-Computadora
• Ingeniería de Usabilidad
• Cómputo Ubicuo y Colaborativo
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Agenda
Methods for identifying users needs and goals of interactive
systems
Contextual Design as departing approach
Observation Techniques
Contextual Interviews
Focus Groups
Methods for modeling users needs and goals of interactive
systems
Scenarios
Personas
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Methods for identifying users needs and goals
of interactive systems
Contextual Design as departing approach
Observation Techniques
Contextual Interviews
Focus Groups
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The challenges
How do we create elegant solutions to complex interaction
problems?
How do interaction designers succeed at creating great designs
that are powerful and aesthetically appealing?
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The answer…
UCD - User Centered Design
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Traditional Software Development Cycle
Requirement Analysis
Software Design
Coding
Testing
Implementation
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Contextual Design & the Software Development Cycle
Software Engineering
Hardware Engineering
Gathering Work model Redesigned work
user Visioning
model
knowledge consolidation
Work redesign
Discovering user needs
Process Engineering
Parallel Development
Goal: Define a new work model supported by technology
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Defining a work model
e.g. creating labels
Any system imposes a work model
System Model vs User Model
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Contextual Design Techniques
• Contextual Inquiry
• Interpretation Sessions
• Work modelling
• Affinity diagram
• Redesign of the Model of Work
• Vision
• Storyboards
• User environment design – prototype evaluation
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Observation Techniques
Learning from travelers at Manchester Piccadilly Train Station
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Observation Techniques
Background
• Cultural anthropology and social anthropology
• Bronislaw Malinowski (Trobriand Islands 1914)
• Previous anthropologists based their work on
interviews and did not mix with their research
subjects in day-to-day life.
• Importance of detailed participant observation
and observation everyday life.
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Observation Techniques
The time famine: toward a sociology of work
time
An ethnographer’s experience
A study of software engineers and time management
“I spent much of each day wandering around, talking to
people and observing their daily activities. I had my
office in the same corridor, where I would type my field
notes on a laptop computer… I shadowed engineers to
get a sense of how they accomplished their work… I sat HBS Associate Professor
Leslie Perlow
for hours observing and talking, listening to the natural
interactions”.
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Observation Techniques
Goals
- Experience the real context
- Observe the action in situ
- Understand the phenomenon from an insider’s point of view.
- Reveal culture (ethno – cultures – graphy – writing)
- Capture multiple perspectives
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Observation Techniques
Different levels of participation
Complete participant
A fully functioning member of the social setting and his or her true identity
is not known to members
Participant-as-observer
Members of the social setting are aware of the researcher’s status as a
researcher: unpaid or paid employment
Observer-as-participant
Researcher is mainly an interviewer. There is some observation but very
little of it involves some participation
Complete observer
Researcher does not interact with people. Unobtrusive observation
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Observation Techniques
General process of an observational-based study
- Meeting and observing the key informant , main contact
- Participation in meetings and preliminary observations
- Document analysis
- Informal interviews (each participant)
- Periods of observation
- Debriefing session
- Note transcription and Data Analysis
- (Post- analysis interview)
- Report writing
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Observation Techniques
Field Notes
•Write down notes, however brief, as quickly as possible after seeing or
hearing something interesting.
•Write up full field notes at the very latest at the end of the day and include
such details as location, who is involved, what prompted the exchange or
whatever, date and time of the day, etc.
•Whenever possible, use a tape recorder to record initial notes, but this may
create a problem of needing to transcribe a lot of speech.
•Notes must be vivid and clear
•You need to take copious notes, so, if in doubt, write it down.
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Observation Techniques
Field Notes
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Contextual Interviews
Contextual Inquiry is based on four principles:
context: go to the customers’ workplace and watch them
do their own work.
partnership: talk to them about their work and engage
them in uncovering unarticulated aspects of
work.
interpretation: develop a shared understanding with the
customer about the aspects of work that
matter.
focus: direct the inquiry from a clear understanding of your
own purpose.
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Contextual Interviews
In a Nutshell
•The designer introduces herself, presents the project focus, and asks
authorization from the user to record the interview. (15 minutes)
• The designer explains the methods of Contextual Inquiry. (3 minutes)
• The user works, the designer observes, and as apprenticeship, makes
annotations, diagrams, launches questions and analyzes effects. (one or two
hours)
• The designer confirms her notes with the user, giving him the chance to
expand points or conclusions. (10 minutes)
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Case: Interview based Study
Fridge’s Doors and Information
Management at Home
•We aimed at understanding how people
use their fridges to manage paper-based
information at home.
•Focus on a situation where minimal
technological support was likely to exist.
•Inform the design of new technologies
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Case: Interview based Study
Research Questions
1. How do people manage and organize
paper-based information in their
homes?
2. What are the main roles of the fridge
to support information management
at home?
3. What are the main limitations and
challenges to manage paper-based
information at home?
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Case: Interview based Study
Interview Topics
•Money and finance management
•Personal graphic artifact management
(pictures, postcards)
•Places and holders – information
management (focus on fridges)
•Routines
•Calendaring practices
•Life of paper documents
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Case: Interview based Study
Interview Questions
For how long have you been living in this house?
Please describe a typical week to us, starting on
Monday…
How do you process your bills, how often, how do
you remember to pay them?
Grand tour of the fridge: Can you describe what
you have on your refrigerator and why is
there?
When was the last time you left a note on the
fridge for your husband? Can you describe that
to us?
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Interview Technique
Types of Questions
1. Introducing questions: `Please tell me about when your interest in X first
began?'; `Have you ever . . .?'; `Why did you go to . . .?' .
2. Follow-up questions: getting the interviewee to elaborate his/her answer, such
as `Could you say some more about that?'; `What do you mean by that . . .?';
‘Can you give me an example…?’
3. Probing questions: following up what has been said through direct questioning.
4. Specifying questions: `What did you do then?'; `How did X react to what you
said?‘
5. Direct questions: `Do you find it easy to keep smiling when serving customers?';
`Are you happy with the amount of on-the-job training you have received?’
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Interview Technique
Types of Questions
6. Indirect questions: `What do most people round here think of the ways that
management treats its staff?', perhaps followed up by `Is that the way you feel
too?', in order to get at the individual's own view.
7. Structuring questions: `I would now like to move on to a different topic'.
8. Silence: allow pauses to signal that you want to give the interviewee the
opportunity to reflect and amplify an answer.
9. Interpreting questions: `Do you mean that your leadership role has had to
change from one of encouraging others to a more directive one?'; `Is it fair to say
that what you are suggesting is that you don't mind being friendly towards
customers most of the time, but when they are unpleasant or demanding you
find it more difficult?’
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Interview Technique
A good interviewer is
1. Knowledgeable: thoroughly familiar with the focus of the interview (use
pilot interviews)
2. Structuring: gives purpose for interview; rounds it off; asks whether
interviewee has questions.
3. Clear: asks simple, easy, short questions; no jargon.
4. Gentle: lets people finish; gives them time to think; tolerates pauses.
5. Sensitive: listens attentively to what is said and how it is said; is
empathetic in dealing with the interviewee.
6. Open: responds to what is important to interviewee and is flexible.
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Interview Technique
A good interviewer is
7. Remembering: relates what is said to what has previously been said.
8. Interpreting: clarifies and extends meanings of interviewees'
statements, but without imposing meaning on them.
9. Balanced: does not talk too much, which may make the interviewee
passive, and does not talk too little, which may result in the interviewee
feeling he or she is not talking along the right lines.
10. Ethically sensitive: is sensitive to the ethical dimension of interviewing,
ensuring the interviewee appreciates what the research is about, its
purposes, and that his or her answers will be treated confidentially.
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Focus Group
A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group
of people are asked about their attitude towards a product,
service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging.
Questions are asked in an interactive group setting where
participants are free to talk with other group members.
Focus groups allow companies wishing to develop, package,
name, or test market a new product, to discuss, view, and/or test
the new product before it is made available to the public.
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Focus Group vs. Group Interview
Focus groups typically emphasize a specific theme or topic that is
explored in depth, whereas group interviews often span very
widely
Group interviews, unlike focus groups, are often carried out to
save time and money by carrying out interviews with a number
of individuals simultaneously
Focus group practitioners are interested in the ways individuals
discuss issues as members of a group, rather than as individuals.
Focus group researchers are interested in how people respond to
each other's views and build up a view out of interactions taking
place within the group
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Focus Group Technique
The focus group method is a form of group interview where:
• there are several participants (in addition to the moderator/
facilitator)
• there is an emphasis on questioning on a particular, fairly
tightly defined topic
• the accent is upon interaction within the group and the joint
construction of meaning
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Issues in Conducting Focus Groups
• Need for tape recording and transcription
• How many groups?
• Size of groups
• Level of moderator involvement
• Selecting participants
• Asking specific questions
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Methods for modeling users needs and goals
of interactive systems
Personas
Scenarios
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Personas
Personas are archetypes of actual users,
defined by the user’s goals and attributes. –
Alan Cooper
“Personas are derived from patterns
observed during interviews with and
observations of users and potential user (and
sometimes customers) of a product”
(Cooper & Reimann, 2003, 67)
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Personas
A persona is created by identifying the primary
stakeholder and creating an identity based on the
stakeholder profiles and other collection activities such as
interviews and surveys.
A persona is a detailed description complete with as many
personally identifying attributes as necessary to make it
come to life.
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Personas
Advantages of personas:
They are quick and easy to create.
They provide a consistent model for all team members.
They are easy to use with other design methods.
They make the user real in the mind of the designer.
Disadvantages of personas:
They can be difficult to create if the target audience is international.
Having too many personas will make the work difficult.
There is a risk of incorporating unsupported designer assumptions.
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Scenarios
A description of a typical task
It describes
The basic goal
The conditions that exist at the beginning of the
task
The activities in which the persona will engage
The outcomes of those activities
Scenarios afford a rich picture of the user’s tasks
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Scenarios
Example of Scenario
A four member family lives in a 3 bedroom semi detached house in North
Manchester, UK. They enjoy doing activities as a family and like to be
organised within the household. The children enjoy watching TV after they
have finished their homework, which is a rule set by their parents Sharon
and Alan. They are allowed to watch a set amount of TV each evening, with
a maximum of two hours. After the 2 hours is over the children, Ben and
Lucy go to their bedrooms to get ready for bed. They leave the lounge
where they were watching TV without switching the TV off and leaving the
lights on in this room also. Sharon goes to the lounge the next morning and
realises that both the TV and lights have been left on in the lounge all night,
she is a annoyed with this and tells both Lucy and Ben that they should
switch all appliances off once they have finished with them.
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Contact Information
Digital Addresses
E-mail: vmgonz (at) acm (dot) org
Skype ID: vmgonz
IM: vmgyg (at) hotmail (dot) com
Web sites:
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/vmgonz
http://it.ciidit.uanl.mx/~victor/