The proliferation of collaborative computer applications in the past decade has
resulted in a corresponding increase in the need for multi-user interfaces. The current
research seeks to contribute to the design of a user-centered multi-user interface for a group
ranking task. User requirements were identified by observing groups perform the ranking
task in a non-computer environment. A design was proposed based on these identified
requirements. The user-centered design was compared to preliminary designs based on the
intuitions of programmers. The conclusions indicate that an analysis of observations in the
non-computer environment does yield insight beyond the initial intuition of programmers.
A prototype based on the user-centered design was implemented. Informal user evaluation
was performed by observing users working with the prototype and obtaining verbal
feedback both on the ease of use of the system and on possible improvements. The
informal user evaluation provides evidence for the usefulness of user-centered design. The
evaluation also suggests that not all features identified were found useful and not all
features necessary were identified.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/5403 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Luk, Wai-Lan |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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