MEETING-DATE:July 7, 2010
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:1:15
MEETING-CHAIR:Philippe Lamoureux
MEETING-CHAIRPIC:philippe.jpg
COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:CANADA DAY
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Volunteers?
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:July 14, 2010
FORTH-DATE2:July 21, 2010
FORTH-DATE3:July 28, 2010
FORTH-DATE4:August 4, 2010
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 1:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 1:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Ed Lank
FORTH-CHAIR2:Stephen Mann
FORTH-CHAIR3:Matei Negulescu
FORTH-CHAIR4:Alex Pytel
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FORTH-TP1:Ben Lafreniere
FORTH-TP2:Philippe Lamoureux
FORTH-TP3:Ed Lank
FORTH-TP4:Stephen Mann
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FORTH-TPPIC2:philippe.jpg
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TPNAME:Tovi Grossman
TPTITLE:Understanding and Improving the Learnability of Software

TPABSTRACT:Despite the consensus that learnability is an important aspect of<nl>usability, there is little consensus among HCI researchers as to how<nl>learnability should be defined, evaluated, and improved within a user<nl>interface. In this talk I will provide an overview of the research we<nl>have been conducting at Autodesk Research on this topic. First I will<nl>outline a new taxaonomy of software learnability we have developed, and<nl>the "question-suggestion" protocol, which can be used to evaluate<nl>software against the various dimensions of learnability issues. I will<nl>then describe two of the new techniques we have developed to alleviate<nl>two of the specific issues. ToolClips aid in "Understanding", by<nl>providing contextual video assistance to help users understand how to<nl>use software tools. CommunityCommands aid in "Awareness", using<nl>recommender system technology to recommend new relevant commands to the<nl>user. In addition to describing the research behind these two projects,<nl>I will also discuss the implementations of the ToolClips and<nl>CommunityCommands components into Autodesk products.
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