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Design and Usability Evaluation of On-Line and Off-Line Multimedia
Applications
Workshop
Wednesday, April 22, 1998
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
This full-day workshop will provide participants with systematic, model-based
methods for designing and evaluating both on-line (WWW sites) and off-line
(CD-ROMs) multimedia applications, with a special focus on cultural
and museum domains. Until few years ago, developers of multimedia applications
paid scarce attention to design. Today, the role of design cannot be
neglected, since the quality of the development process and of the resulting
products are largely affected by the quality of design. Thus, design
and evaluation are strongly interrelated.
The workshop is organized in two (half-day) sections. The first
one addresses the problem of how to systematically design on-line
and off-line multimedia applications for museums. The second section
addresses evaluation problems, with a special focus on usability,
which represents a significant aspect of the overall quality of any
multimedia application. We will show that good design principles and
concepts help analysing the quality of an application in a systematic
way, and we will introduce a novel methodology, named SUE, for usability
evaluation. The approach for the design and evaluation that will be
presented is model-based, since it uses a reference model (HDM - Hypermedia
Design Model) for reaching two goals: i) to identify the various phases
in the design process and to provide the primitives for specifying
the design output, and ii) to identify precisely the "entities" or
"objects" that are the subject of evaluation, and that are therefore
considered in our SUE methodology.
At the end of the workshop, participants will learn how to approach
more systematically the design of multimedia museum applications,
and how to discuss more precisely their requirements or their design
choices. Moreover, they will be able to look more critically at existing
products, to rationalize the good (or bad) aspects of design choices,
to detect usability problems, and to formulate potential improvements
in a precise vocabulary.
This file can be found below http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/
Send questions and comments to info@archimuse.com
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