Abstract
This project is aimed at addressing the need for improvement in practice opportunities for students. The interface design process includes steps of analysis, specification, implementation, and evaluation, but student projects typically make only a single pass through the cycle and receive only a final evaluation. A more appropriate procedure that provides a idealistic and realistic practice experience is to include an evaluation component that students can incorporate into their design. A practical approach that not only provides the evaluation but also illustrates formal methods is to develop a computerized test program. We address how this tool fits into the curriculum and contributes to the practice of interface design instruction.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bangert-Drowns, R. L., Kulik, C. C., Kulik, J. A., & Morgan, M. (1991). The instructional effect of feedback in test-like events. Review of Educational Research. 61, 2, pp 213–238.
Booth, P. A. (1989). An Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Boud, B. & Faletti, G. (1991). The Challenge of Problem-Based Learning. London: Cogan Page.
Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.) Knowing, learning and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt, The (1990). Anchored instruction and its relationship to situated cognition. Educational Researcher 19(6), 2–10.
Ericsson, K. A., & Simon, H. A. (1980). Verbal report as data. Psychological Review, 87, 3, pp 215–251.
Mealor, T. (1992). Man/machine interface shaping the future. PACE, January, pp 10.
Monk, A. (1986). How and when to collect behavioural data. In A. Monk (Ed.) Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction. London: Academic Press.
Myers, B. (1990). Garnet. IEEE Computer, November, 71–85.
Norman, D. A. (1986). Cognitive engineering. In D. A. Norman & S. W. Draper (Eds.) User-Centered System Design. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Norman, D. A. (1988). The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books.
Norman, D. A., & Draper, S. W. (1986). User-Centered System Design. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Quinn, C. N. (1992, November). Teaching user-centred system design: a recursive exercise. Proceedings of the Conference on the Impact of Computers on Design. Sydney, NSW.
Perlman, G. (1989). User Interface Development. Software Engineering Institute Curriculum Module SEI-CM-18-1.1 Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University.
(SUIT) Simple User Interface Toolkit Team (1992). The Simple User Interface Toolkit. Internet, comp.human-factors.
(SIGCHI) Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction. (1992). Curriculae for Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1993 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Quinn, C.N., Preston, R. (1993). TestIt: An automated evaluation tool for human-computer interaction projects. In: Grechenig, T., Tscheligi, M. (eds) Human Computer Interaction. VCHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57312-7_73
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57312-7_73
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-57312-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48052-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive