Noor's+Lab+7

** Week 7 ** Interaction Architecture and Designing a Questionnaire Write a description of interaction architecture as defined by Mat Hunter at http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/MatHunter and Rikako Sakai at http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/RikakoSakai in relation to their work with Kodak in 1995.


 * Mat Hunter **
 * Mat Hunter describes interaction architecture as designing extensible series of rules that would allow not just one camera to be designed, perhaps a whole series. They decided to make something more experiential, a user experience prototype. The camera example: It was a big box with a security camera jammed on the front. Allowed you to take a picture and delete it and send it across the room to a TV. This technique expressed the features and functions and also how it felt. Kodak took this prototype and turned it into the DC210 digital camera. **
 * Rikako Sakai **
 * She was involved in the development of the software PhotoStitch. She started the development of version 3. The problem with the older version was the fact that the structure was not visible to the user at all, and they were too many steps to stitch. The biggest change she made was using the tab interface instead of step-by-step. They decided to put animation to reinforce the text messages which was very helpful for beginners. It describes how to drag one photo to another. **

In addition, as you will be creating a questionnaire for your major assignment, read the article at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6751_97_winter/Topics/quest-design/ to help you formulate the question. How does the author define 'leading questions' and 'hypothetical questions'? Write a paragraph each to define these terms. Leading Questions: **are questions that forces or implies a certain type of answer. A closed format question must supply answers that not only cover the whole range of responses, but that are equally distributed throughout the range. An example of a leading question: ‘you went to the mall last night, didn’t you?’ This question can be reworded to a non-leading question ‘did you go to the mall last night?’ Leading questions and its answers assume that the people answering the questions will see their answers in the choices given. This can cause inaccuracy in the results because the answers that are given might not be true, because people are restricted to specific answers. Hypothetical Questions: **it is a type of question that does not give you a clear answer; it would be hard to draw a conclusion because the results will be unclear and inconsistent. The questions are usually open-ended and contain a wide variety of answers. This type of questions should not be used in a questionnaire.
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