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As part of you final assignment, please print out, or electronically fill out the Peer Evaluation form located in course documents.

For your last homework assignment, post your team name, team members, and a one sentence description of your project, along with whatever other friendly advice or suggestions you would like to convey to the other teams. Good luck!

Some Links:
C/S/E/L Heuristics for Scenario Design
Narrative & Story-telling, Flip Phillips
Concepts in Distributed Work and Coordination
Envisioning Human-Robot Coordination in Future Operations

Your reading for last week, introduced you to Alicyn and the ‘ungriclings’. In class I provided a brief explanation of each maxim with a quick example- now your assignment is to review Grice’s four Maxims and then find an example of a Gricean maxim violation in everyday life- relate what maxim(s) is being violated and then propose a better solution. DUE Tues. 02.06.07)

David D. Woods’ presidential address to the Human Factors and Ergonomics society in 1999 discusses 2001: A Space Odyssey and the implications and lessons from Kubrick and Clarke’s vision in the context of joint man-machine systems of distributed work.

Here are a few more illustrations of design examples from the past. Remember, your task is to combine the four principles of representation design to create an interface that serves as the artifact for the actors that are at the center of your scenario.

After reading Chapter 10 on Automation Surprises you have a very strong grounding in how such situations can play out in mission critical setting. For this assignment, write a short paragraph on a favorite (or not so favorite) automation surprise, obnoxious or dire computer bug, or insidious mode error you’ve seen, read about, or personally experienced.

Here are links to some of the medical errors we mentioned in class today.

Woman Dies of Chemo Overdose

To Err is Human - Executive Summary

To Err is Human - Brief Report

Programming errors contribute to death from patient-controlled analgesia: case report and estimate of probability (Vicente, 2003)

Here is the experiment we tried in class looking at driving as a joint cognitive system. By using the agent:environment:artifact triad to explore the goals and relationships of co-agency systems, we abstracted across multiple levels. Although we only touched on two levels to define our environment boundaries, what we want you to always keep in mind across all of these levels are the interactions and competing goals and interests for safety and support that defines performance and effective work across these interactions at every level.

Download the Hi-res Quicktime version here [download]

Look around you- from presentations you’ve seen, computer images you’ve encountered, or print media- find a visual example of good or bad ‘information design’ and quickly describe the context of how you found it, and why you chose it and add it in the comments to this post. As mentioned in class, please add your first or last name at the end of the post.

Link to your image’s URL- or the image itself- by placing its address in a standard link tag. ( click here for help with this )

Fun reading:
Edward Tufte’s homepage on information design
Don Norman’s homepage on user advocacy and user-centered design