Evaluating capture and access through authentic use

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Evaluating capture and access through authentic
use

• Heather Richter Gregory Abowd
• GVU College of Computing
• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Lessons learned from eClass

• Design for evaluation
• Instrumentation issues
• System issues
• Analyze the data early
• Evaluate the evaluation

Brotherton, Jason. Enriching Everyday
Activities through the Auotmated Capture and
Access of Live Experiences, Ph.D. Dissertation.
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.
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• TeamSpace evaluation understand motivations for
  use and practices that emerge
• Methodology
• Quantitative user logs
• Qualitative questionnaires, interviews,
  observations