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Title: Universal Usability and Novice Programming


1
Universal Usabilityand Novice Programming
  • James Landay Jason Hong
  • Spring 2001
  • Mar 15, 2001

2
Universal Usability
  • Any initial thoughts on reading?

3
Universal Usability
  • Diversity of technology
  • Hardware, software, network speed
  • Diversity of people
  • Culture, Age, Gender, Income, Literacy
  • Diversity of information
  • Bridge between what users know and what they
    need to know

4
Universal Usability
  • Adapting systems to physical, visual, auditory,
    or cognitive disabilities helps everyone
  • Examples?

5
Universal Usability
  • Who will lead universal usability initiatives?

6
Universal Usability
  • What are some ways of making it easier to create
    things that are universally usable?

7
Novice Programming
  • Universally Usability and Novice Programming
  • First impressions?

8
Novice Programming
  • Website
  • http//www.stagecast.com

9
Novice Programming
  • Make everyone creators, not just consumers
  • Novice document writers
  • Novice spreadsheet modelers
  • Novice Internet surfers
  • Why not novice programmers?

10
Novice Programming
  • Visual before-and-after rules
  • Programming by demonstration
  • What's the difference between these?

11
Novice Programming
  • Fregean representations
  • Video

12
Novice Programming
  • Other thoughts on PBD?

13
Project 2 Teams
John and Nick - Interactive TV Peter and
Thao - Internet Devices Jason and James -
Health devices Mimi and Kevin - Aibo and its
friends Chris and Albert - Weird Video
Games Indervir and Matt - Force feedback
devices Billy and Assal - Car devices Andrew and
Devin - ebooks Joey and Joyce - More Weird Video
Games
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For Next Week
  • Project 2
  • 2 or 3 things in that area
  • What's interesting about it (why would I want
    one)?
  • Turn in
  • Slides by Wednesday (6-7 minutes)
  • HTML writeup by Friday night
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