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Course - DT249/1Course - DT249/1
Subject - Information Systems in Organisations
INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS
Semester 1, Week 12
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Module Content TitleModule Content Title
From the course document, this week’s lecture refers to:
Interacting with computers
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Textbooks?Textbooks?The Laudon and Laudon book,
‘Management Information Systems’ (Seventh Edition) – Chapters 6 (6.2) and 10 (10.4)
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Interacting with Interacting with ComputersComputersThe topic of ‘interacting with
computers’ is concerned, largely, with the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or, in a narrower field, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs).
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Interacting with Interacting with Computers (2)Computers (2)There is a huge range of types of computers and types of applications - HCI is a concern for all of them.
Pocket PCs
Wireless Devices
Desktop PCs
MainframesWeb applications
Smart TVs
Laptops
Airport control systems
Mobile phones
Nuclear systemsMedical systems
etc etcMP3 players
GPS devices
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Human-Computer Interaction Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)(HCI)Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is
concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.
i.e HCI involves the study, planning, design and uses of the interaction between people (users) and computers.
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Human-Computer Interaction Human-Computer Interaction (2)(2)HCI emphasises the significance of
good interfaces and the relationship of interface design to successful human interaction with computer systems.
It is often regarded as the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design, media studies, and several other fields of study.
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Human-Computer Interaction Human-Computer Interaction (3)(3)Interacting with computers is
improved by ‘good usability’.
What is that?
A computer system has usability. (Whether it is easily usable, or difficult to use, is measurable.)
Usability, like many features of systems, can be ‘designed in’…
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Overview: Map of Human Computer Overview: Map of Human Computer InteractionInteraction
Input and Output Devices
Dialogue Techniques
Dialogue Genre
Application Areas
Ergonomics
Evaluation Techniques
Design Approaches
Implementation Techniques and Tools
Example Systems and Case Studies
Human
Language, Communication and Interaction
Human Information Processing
Use and Context
Human-Machine Fit and AdaptationSocial Organization and Work
ComputerComputer Graphics
Dialogue Architecture
Development Process
A a
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Why Study Human Use of Why Study Human Use of Computer Systems?Computer Systems?When considering why to study
Human Computer Interaction, there are several perspectives or views:◦The human factors view◦The personal view◦The systems view◦The marketplace view◦The business view◦The social view
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The Human Factors ViewThe Human Factors ViewHumans have cognitive and physiological limitations.Errors are costly in terms of loss of time loss of money loss of morale loss of lives in critical systems
Design can cope with such limitations.
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The The PersonalPersonal View ViewPeople view computers as appliances (like phones and televisions), and want it to perform as one.
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The The SystemSystems Views ViewHumans are complex.
Computers are complex.
There is a complex interface between the two.
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The The MarketplaceMarketplace View ViewEveryday people who use computers: now expect an “easy to use system” are not tolerant of poorly designed
systems have little control of training
programmes are often a heterogeneous group
If a product is hard to use, people will often seek other products – EG Mac vs Personal Computer (iOS vs Microsoft Windows).
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The Business ViewThe Business ViewBusiness organisations want to use their employees more productively and effectively.
The personnel costs now far outweigh hardware and software costs in many business plans.
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The Social ViewThe Social ViewComputers contribute to critical parts of
our society, and cannot be ignored. EG:◦to the education of children◦to take medical histories and provide
expert advice◦to keep track of our credit worthiness◦to help form government policies◦to control air and ground traffic flow◦to book travel
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The Social View (2)The Social View (2)◦to control chemical/oil/nuclear plants◦to control space missions◦to assist humans with their everyday
tasks (office automation)◦to control complex machines
internally (aircraft, space shuttles, super tankers)
◦to help control consumer equipment (cars, washing machines, televisions)
◦to entertainment (games, Kindles, Netflix).…
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Views – so what?Views – so what?
In all these views, human best interests and economics are aligned.(How people use systems (and, to some extent, the way they use them), and the cost of using systems can be combined.)
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The End UserThe End UserA ‘user’ is an individual – a person who
uses a computer. This includes expert programmers as well as novices. An end user is any individual who runs an application program.
The end user is the person who uses the hardware or software or system after it has been fully developed and installed.
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The End User (2)The End User (2)There are often two types of users;
users who require a finished product (end users), and users who may use the same product for development purposes (as in ‘end user computing’ or ‘end user development’).
The term end user usually implies an individual with a relatively low level of computer expertise.
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The User GroupThe User GroupA user group is a group of individuals with
common interests in some aspect of computers.
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Some user groups cover nearly everything with subgroups (called SIGs – Special Interest Groups), while others concentrate on a particular area, such as computer graphics, or a particular application (such as Sage Accounts).
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UsabilityUsabilityUsability is generally regarded as the principle of ensuring that interactive products are easy to learn, effective to use and enjoyable from the user’s perspective.
Designing for maximum usability is the goal of Human-Computer Interaction design.
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User Experience and User Experience and UsabilityUsability
“User experience”Encompasses more then usability
Also, note the ‘elements of usability’
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Usability MeasuresUsability MeasuresMeasurement is possible in relation to usability in systems design.
Designers might define the target user community and the type of tasks associated with the interface being designed.
‘System communities’ might evolve and change.
EG The interface to information services for a Customer Support System might be modified over time.
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Usability Measures (2)Usability Measures (2)Five human factors (usability measures) central to evaluation:
1. Time to learn2. Speed of performance3. Rate of errors by users4. Retention over time5. Subjective satisfaction
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Five Usability MeasuresFive Usability Measures1. Time to learn
◦How long does it take for typical members of the community (users) to learn relevant task?
2. Speed of performance◦How long does it take to perform
relevant benchmark tasks? (Tasks with known measures to compare with.)
3. Rate of errors by users◦How many, and what kinds of errors are
made during benchmark tasks? ◦ …/ continued
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Five Usability Measures Five Usability Measures (2)(2)4. Retention over time
◦Frequency of use, and ease of learning, help make for better user retention (memorising tasks).
5. Subjective satisfaction◦Do the users like the designed
interface?
◦Allow for user feedback via interviews, free-form comments and satisfaction scales.
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User Interface AnalysisUser Interface AnalysisInterface analysis means
understanding:◦the people (end-users) who will interact
with the system through the interface,◦the tasks that end-users must perform
to do their work, ◦the content that is presented as part of
the interface,◦the environment in which these tasks
will be conducted.
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User Interface DesignUser Interface DesignIs the user’s new
application/system:◦Easy to learn?◦Easy to use?◦Easy to understand?
Golden rules:◦Place the user in control◦Reduce the user’s memory load◦Make the interface consistent
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User Interface Design (2)User Interface Design (2)Typical design errors:
◦Lack of consistency◦Too much memorisation◦No guidance/help◦No context sensitivity◦Poor response (EG to users via pop-up
messages)◦Arcane/unfriendly
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User Interface Design User Interface Design ProcessProcess
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HCI DesignHCI DesignRather than the traditional design
models adopted within software engineering which are characterised by their linearity, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has adopted a design model which aspires to incorporate the following premises. It is, generally:◦user centred◦multi disciplinary◦highly iterative (repeated)
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User Centred System User Centred System DesignDesign
User centred system design is based upon a user’s:◦abilities and real needs◦context◦work◦tasks
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Design Principles for Design Principles for UsabilityUsabilityObviously, when designing a system it
is worth taking the USER into account! Principles for good design of this sort include:
Early focus on the users Empirical measurement Iterative design Integrative design ( - help for users,
training, documentation, etc., in parallel to the technical design)
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UsabilityUsabilityEarly focus on users
Bring the design team into direct contact with the users right from the start.
Get the user involved in the design (as much as possible) so they can instill their knowledge into the design process.
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Usability (2)Usability (2)Empirical measurement
Actual behavioral measures of learnabilityusability
Testing of appropriate tasks or concepts - access speeds, time to learn procedures - remembering that novices are different from experts.
Collect the users’ thoughts (interviews, questionnaires…)
Collect the users’ mistakes, Collect the users’ attitudes.
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Usability (3)Usability (3)Iterative design
Incorporate the results from the tests into the next prototype
Set goals for the system Get feedback on evaluation
(Evaluation criteria next)
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Usability (4)Usability (4) Evaluation criteria
The designed system should be:easy to useuser friendlyeasy to operatesimpleresponsiveflexible
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Usability (5)Usability (5)Integrated design
It might be best practice to: build online help into the system,
prepare training, documentation AND process modules (coded programs) at the same time.
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Usability DefinitionsUsability DefinitionsUsability is task related, people related
and function related. It has cognitive, behavioral, and communicative components.
To be truly usable a system must be compatible not only with the characteristics of human perception and action but, and most critically, with user's cognitive skills in communication, understanding, memory and problem solving.
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Usability Definitions (2)Usability Definitions (2)Designing a usable system requires:
◦understanding of the intended users.◦the amount of time they expect to use
the system.◦how their needs change as they gain
experience.
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Usability DesignUsability Design(Back to: )Early focus on the user
What: understand the users’ cognition, behaviour and attitude in relation to the goals of the organisation.
How: interviews, observations, discussions, working with the users.
Empirical Measurement What: tasks and dependent measures. How: testing – protocol (procedural
rules) analysis, observation, interviews, etc.
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Usability Design (2)Usability Design (2)Interative design
What: the problems encountered are to be corrected and measure again.
How: an evolving system – prototyping.
Integrated Design What: a parallel development of
interface, help, documentation, training and measurement.
How: a bespoke system – integrating designed features.
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Measurable Human Measurable Human FactorsFactors
Goals for usability◦Time needed to learn - how long does it
take for typical users to learn to use the commands relevant to a set of tasks?
◦Speed of performance - how long does it take to carry out the benchmark set of tasks?
◦Rate of errors by users - how many and what kinds of errors are made in carrying out the benchmark set of tasks?
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Measurable Human Measurable Human Factors (2)Factors (2)
◦Subjective satisfaction - how much did the users like using aspects of the system?
◦Retention over time - how well do users maintain their knowledge?
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Cognitive EngineeringCognitive EngineeringLearning is a relatively permanent
change in behaviour resulting from: Elaboration, association, practice,
rehearsal.
Metaphor - a mental model, structure, or framework which help bridge any gap between what a person knows and what is being attempted to be learned.
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Cognitive Engineering (2)Cognitive Engineering (2)In relation to learning to use icons and menus (metaphors) presented on a screen:
Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour resulting from conditions of practice.
Human learning then is the association of one item with another item (Associated learning).
Pairs of stimuli are introduced, a mental association is made for them, and the stimuli then become interrelated.
Future learning can then depend upon past learning (Constructivism).
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Cognitive Engineering (3)Cognitive Engineering (3) People develop new cognitive structures
by using metaphors to cognitive structures they have already learned.
The metaphor is a model or structure/conceptual framework which helps bridge any gap between what the user knows and what is to be learned.
Metaphors spontaneously generated by users will predict the ease with which they an master a computer system.
If this is indeed the case then systems designers must understand and employ the use of metaphors in system designs.
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Cognitive Engineering (4)Cognitive Engineering (4)Eight recommendations to aid both the
user and designer in build effective systems
1. Find and use appropriate metaphors in teaching the naive user a computer system. A metaphor must have a suitable domain for a given system and given user population.
2. Given a choice between two metaphors choose the one which is most congruent with the way the system works.
3. Assure that the correct attitude is presented. Costs of ignoring this recommendation range from user dissatisfaction and reduced productivity to sabotage.
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Cognitive Engineering (5)Cognitive Engineering (5)4. When more than one metaphor is need
to represent a system, choose metaphors that are similar enough, but not to similar that confusion results.
5. Consider the probable consequences to users and system designers of each metaphor used. This is the evolving state from novice to user. Two path are possible: one leading to directly to the system, the other to a new metaphor.
6. The limits of the metaphor should be pointed out to the user.
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Cognitive Engineering (6)Cognitive Engineering (6)7. The intent of the metaphor in the
beginning is to aid understanding and usability; for the continual user it is no longer necessary. The metaphor is used also as a motivator, at first to get the user to use the system, then to make him productive and keep his interest.
8. Provide the user with an exciting metaphor for routine work and eventually present the user with advanced scenarios requiring different action.
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Cognitive Engineering (7)Cognitive Engineering (7)Goals of cognitive engineering:◦ to understand the fundamental principles
of human action and performance relevant to the principles of system design.
◦ to devise physical systems that are pleasant to use.
Psychological variables - goals, intentions and attitudes
Physical variables - pertain to the ergomomics of the system (the WAY the systems is used physically).
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Human-Computer Human-Computer DialogueDialogue
As mentioned before in several versions of the same point, computer based systems should be easy to learn and remember, effective and pleasant to use.
These ideas can have testable usability behavioral measures applied to them.
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Nine basic categories of usability problems:1. Simple and natural dialogue: the dialogue should be
simple and clearly stated. It should not contain any irrelevant information. The information should appear in a natural and logical order.
2. Speak the user's language: the dialogue should be expressed in the terminology familiar to the user rather than in system oriented terms.
3. Minimise the user's memory load: instructions should be visible, easily retrievable, and simplified. Presentation load should be reduced when ever possible (i.e. users should not have to remember file names when they are retrievable).
4. Be consistent: the terminology and concepts should always be used in the same manner.
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5. Provide feedback: the system should provide feedback as to what is transpiring within a reasonable time.
6. Provide clearly marked exits: clearly marked exits should be provided to the user in case of mistakes.
7. Provide shortcuts: system flexibility for the novice and expert. Menus for the novice and commands for the experts.
8. Provide good error messages: the error messages should be constructive and provide meaningful suggestions to the user of what to do next.
9. Error prevention: a careful design that prevents error messages form occurring in the first place.
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Conclusion: The identification of specific, and
potential usability problems in a human computer dialogue design is difficult.
Usability goals should be defined and incorporated into the design.
Designers may have difficulties in applying design principles unless they have simple basic requirements for the design product.
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What Next?What Next?
Next week:Revision of notes – with a
review of a past paper.