Written by Linn on 09 February 2010 – 8:09
När: Torsdag 11 februari kl 17:00
Var: Torget på CID, Nada, KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Stockholm
Title: User Experience of Mobile Mixed Reality
Presenter: Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila is a full professor of usability in Tampere University of Technology, department of Software Systems, where she’s leading the unit of Human-Centered Technology. Kaisa has about 20 years experience in human-centered design, both in university and industry, including 10 years with Nokia Inc. Kaisa’s research interests cover user experience and user-centered design methods in product development, with emphasis on design and evaluation of mobile communication products and services. Currently Kaisa is also a part-time visiting professor at Nokia Research Center, focusing on user experience of mobile products and services.
Abstract: Mobile mixed reality (MMR), i.e. the merging of physical and digital worlds on mobile devices, has so far been developed mostly from the technological perspective. Thus, it has been our aim to start developing deep understanding of the expectations and user experience (UX) of potential users of MMR services. This talk presents results from multiple user studies of future MMR concepts. The results address central UX issues, for example, content preferences, trust and interaction with MMR services. The results can be used as a basis for human-centered of design of MMR systems.
Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~kaisavvm/
Title: Evaluating ubiquitous computing for the hospital: From usability testing to clinical simulations
Presenter: Professor Dag Svanaes, NTNU, Trondheim.
Dag has been teaching and doing research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) since the late 1980s. His main areas of interest are mobile and ubiquitous computing, usability evaluation methodology, user-centered design, and the philosophy of interaction. He is currently involved in a national research initiative on medical informatics (NSEP), and have built up a usability lab for health ICT at NSEP.
Abstract: I will report lessons learned over the last five years with usability testing of point-of-care clinical information systems. At the National Research Centre for Electronic Health Records (NSEP) in Trondheim we have built a 80m2 usability laboratory with movable walls that allows for full-scale clinical simulations. Such simulations typically involve two or more health workers and a number of patients, acting out realistic scenarios from the hospital with running prototypes of new technology. As information systems in hospitals become mobile and ubiquitous, the important success criteria go far beyond usability in the traditional sense, – including fit with established work practice and division of labour, ergonomics and use of the body, effects on face-to-face communication, safety, and privacy. Different from “desktop” usability testing, clinical simulations allow us to get feedback on these aspects of the systems in use. I will use the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the notion of embodied computing to explain the need to go beyond a cognitivist approach when evaluating such systems.
Dag Svanaes