Renaissance:UOS HCI Study Project 2009

Description

This wiki illustrates the efforts made by a group of students within the scope of a study project of the University of Osnabrück. Our design proposal focuses on the diagram function in Open Office Impress. We try to evaluate general ideas about task organization and navigation on the basis of a specific exercise: How to implement a diagram in OO Impress.

Our goal is to create a more practicable way of using the diagram function. Currently we are working on three different prototype designs because we have different expectations on how the diagram function should perform.

Subsequently, we are planning to run usability tests on our prototypes in the upcoming term regarding human information processing.

Team

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Goals

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Activities

Design Proposal 3: Expert User Interface

At first, we want to maintain a common frame structur when working with diagrams. When inserting a diagram in OO Impress the lateral frames drop away and the default toolbar is replaced by a context dependent toolbar with minimal functionality. The first impression imposed on the user is that a new program or a sub-program is executed. This comes with the uncertainty of not being able to turn back to the OO Impress default view, what has been reported to be the first intention of our group members when they first inserted a diagram.

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