Survey Form

Dear student, 
 
Below is the link of survey Form. It is mandatory for all students
to fill up. Its very simple. You may fill up this form within 5
minutes. 
 
http://tempuri.org/tempuri.html
 
Thanks
In case of any issue, please let me know at
salmanbashir@vu.edu.pk or cs408@vu.edu.pk
 Dear HCI Students

I would like to welcome you in the course of Human Computer Interaction

(CS408) on the behalf of Virtual university of Pakistan. 
In this course, you will find a project throughout semester. This project is
about the core of HCI- which is Usability Evaluation. This project is divided into
some activities. Every assigned activity will be graded. Detail of each activity
and its related tasks will be announced soon. You will be given step by step
guidelines along with examples to perform each activity. The core purpose of
this activity is to enhance your practical skills in HCI. At the end of this activity,
you will be able to learn and practiced the applied and core area of HCI.  In few
words, I can say that the project is about
“The interaction/ usage of different mobile applications like Facebook,
Google Docs, and Skype etc. on smartphone (Samsung/iPhone/…) and share
your experience”.
Requirements of these Project activities:  
• Almost all of the students now a days have a mobile and
majority of these have smartphone like Samsung, iPhone,
htc, Qmobile etc. All those who owns smartphone, have
good familiarity to use different mobile applications like
whatsApp, Skype, Google Map and many more. Some of
you certainly not having smartphone, they should arrange
by themselves either by taking from his/her family member
or can make a group with a person who have it. Second
requirement is to get familiarity with mobile device at least.
It means one person should know about how to attend a
call, make a call, save contacts, send/receive messages, etc. 
 Mode:

• All activities will be carried out using Quizzes,

Assignment interface, Google Docs, GDB, 
 Grading Scheme: 

• 15-20% weightage of this project.

 Your major role:  

• Understand mobile application functionalities and the way to use it. 

• Observe the behavior of mobile application (only display) While
using mobile applications. 
• Keep in mind the following questions while performing a task on
mobile application. 
• Do you understand task and its related description?
• Do you have an idea about the outcome of task?
• Did you achieve the goal/objective of the task?
• Did you find any confusing interface that leads to misunderstanding
while achieving goal?
• Did you perform any irrelevant/additional work while achieving
target?
 Your major role(cont..):
• Did you precisely mention the identified problem?
• Do you have any suggestion to improve performance? Do you think it
is possible to achieve goal more quickly?
• Did you calculate efficiency? Time required to complete the target. Did
you study the helping material and understand the way to calculate
the efficiency?
• Do you think working in pairwise is more appropriate and helps to
identify flaws easily?
• Do you know and understand the usage of gestural operations, its
meaning and behavior?
• Do you think Context aware app provides usable interface to users? 
• Do you suggest what app should display for more usability if required?
 Special slide
• After Understanding different fields
(efficiency, effectiveness etc) in table and the
way to measure these, fill up the table
properly with values.
• If you find any query, please email me at 
cs408@vu.edu.pk / salmanbashir@vu.edu.pk
• Your participation will be highly appreciated.
 Facilitation:
• You will be given the complete and concrete
understanding of all concepts and their
execution used in any activity
• You will be given a detailed step by step
guidelines. 
• You will be given concrete examples of how to
perform a task. 
• You will be provided the understanding of all
questions highlighted above.  
 Execution plan:

• At start, basic understanding and knowledge about

HCI which you have taken so for from the first 6+
lectures of this course,  along with some other HCI
related concepts like evaluation concepts,
introduction to different mobile applications, their
related functions/tasks, smartphone basic features,  
and working methodology will be discussed.
• Please note I will share with you all this material
today. 
 Execution plan (cont…):

•  The purpose of this discussion is to give you

an idea about what to do and how to do. You
will find reading material available to you on
LMS in the form of documents and audio file.
A discussion will initiate on Skype to let you
facilitate and to minimize your confusion
about any concept. Your participation will be
highly appreciated
 Execution plan (cont…):
• After this, a quiz will conduct to assess
students understanding about the above said
knowledge. This Quiz will be a Graded
Activity. A proper announcement about
schedule will upload soon on LMS.
 Execution plan (cont…):
• Right after Quiz, you will find a day for
discussion. Next, you will find an assignment in
which you will be given 5 mobile applications
with some defined tasks and its related
description. You may take any other additional
(along with defined) task from these 5 mobile
applications. . It is advised to perform this whole
activity in pair wise. However, if a student don’t
find, then, he/she can alone do this activity. 
 Execution plan (cont…):
• All those who wish to work in pair are
required to send the solution file individually
using your own id on LMS and on Google docs.
Just mention the pair in file uploading on
LMS. 
 Execution plan (cont…):
• In pair, each student will perform every assigned task. When one
person will perform task, other student will observe him/her
comfort, confidence, happy/unhappy, easiness/complexity, time to
complete task and guide him/her wherever necessary to complete
a task. Most important task of the observer student is to assist the
performer student to fill up table with correct values. Now, the
observer will become performer and vice versa. Same procedure
will repeat. At the end of this activity, both of the students will
have their own tables containing experimental data in them. 
• If a student is alone performing this activity, then he/she is
required to note the relevant data and immediately after executing
task fill up the table with values. 
 Execution plan (cont…):
• Each task of this activity will perform two times by each
student. First time in a sitting/focused environment like
you are sitting in your class room/ sitting at some other
place while executing task. Second time execute the same
task while moving like jogging, gossiping with friends,
buying something, moving around in a bus etc. In static
and dynamic situation. 
• It is suggested in pair wise, if one student performs a task
in sitting position, it would be nice if other student will
perform the same task in moving situations. In such a way,
there are more chances to identify problems.
 Table

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 Execution plan (cont…):
•  
• Before mid-exam another Quiz will be used to check
academic concepts.Before midterm, two assignments will
be given after first Quiz. Second quiz will held after two
assignments. 
• In second assignment, 5 gesture based mobile applications
will be given to students and asked to perform each
defined task by following the scheme as above. A special
focus should be given to all multi touch gestures
operations like sharing, delete, save etc. used to control
mobile apps and try to evaluate usefulness.