Pride of Szeged

Week five of HCI class. I left a bit early today to attend an ITRC meeting, so I missed the latter half of the class. Nonetheless, I talked to Marchionini about presenting the KMT and Helpsite to the class, and potentially setting them up as a test documentation group so that they might offer their feedback on the interface. In addition, if I treat this as a user study, I might be able to get Marchionini's feedback on that process, for future testing with students, faculty, etc.
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On this fourth day of HCI, we spent a good deal of time talking about how to organize a great deal of data on a website, and the best methods for allowing users to retrieve that data.

While Marchionini's research suggests heavy linking at the top level to avoid "unnecessary clicks", this strikes me as the web equivalent of horror vacui and a little maddening to the average user.
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The third Day of HCI class focused on how user interfaces are essentially collections of "views" of the content, and that the perspective, detail, and control of those views determines whether it is effective or not.

Included at the bottom of my notes are a number of somewhat-random thoughts I had during the discussions that pertain to our KM development.
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Despite the title, this is the first post about the HCI class. I missed the first day due to a scheduling problem. The following is a rough list of notes from the class, highlighted with areas of possible interest in our development of KMT2.
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