Monday 5/21
We met as a group and discussed the models we each had developed. I was able to create a sequence model for the fields interviews and contextual interview. I manage to develop a flow model from all the data I collected individually, and I mad a cutural model dealing with the differences in years at UCSD and visitors. We were all able to share our individual models and will be able to combined them next time we meet.
Tuesday 5/22
As a group we decided to organize all of our individual data into Excell documents. We thought this would be easier for a small group and aide in the organization of our affinity diagram. I did this for all of my interviews so I could easily see the overlap in problems.
Wednesday 5/23
I went back to Muir to take pictures of the buildings in the Stuart Commons. I took many pictures from different angles and decided that the ones the included the building names in the pictures would probably be the best to use for our prototype. However, I ran across a problem when I realized I misplaced my import cable and could not download my pictures onto my computer. I will have to ge a new one from the bookstore.
Thursday 5/24
I put all my data for the Stuart Commons, minus the pictures, into a rough outline for each building. The idea is that for our paper prototype, this information would show up when you clicked on a building. My outline included a picture (well will include a picture), a brief description of the facilities in each building, the hours of operation, a general description of the location of the building, and amenities included (such as computers, bathrooms, or WiFi access).
For our next meeting we need to get our prototype together so we can test is a little (possibly two different prototypes), and start putting our group binder together so we have all our information in one place when it comes to writing the paper.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Commentary
Sunday May 27, 2007
Commentary
I was out of town all this weekend and had no access to internet until now.
This past week, I have finished consolidating an analyzing the consolidated work models, interface models, sequence models, and artifact models. I have make an effort to transfer all of my physical data into an excel document, except for the models. I have written out mini description of buidlings. (AP & M, Mc Gill, Mandlker, and biology. I have collected some of the materials for our paper prototype, such as images, floor plans, etc. I have started on formatting our presentation, because I have been less than impressed on our previous presentations as well as the overall class presentation. Class on Tuesday provided me with a lot of good ideas for a crisper and cleaner Power-point presentation. I want to hopefully build and test our paper prototype within the week. I still need to collect some information and materials for the prototype.
Commentary
I was out of town all this weekend and had no access to internet until now.
This past week, I have finished consolidating an analyzing the consolidated work models, interface models, sequence models, and artifact models. I have make an effort to transfer all of my physical data into an excel document, except for the models. I have written out mini description of buidlings. (AP & M, Mc Gill, Mandlker, and biology. I have collected some of the materials for our paper prototype, such as images, floor plans, etc. I have started on formatting our presentation, because I have been less than impressed on our previous presentations as well as the overall class presentation. Class on Tuesday provided me with a lot of good ideas for a crisper and cleaner Power-point presentation. I want to hopefully build and test our paper prototype within the week. I still need to collect some information and materials for the prototype.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Nick's Commentary Week 8
Nicholas Pojman
A05808932
Monday:
Group meeting. We met up and discussed our different models. We each developed sequence models and some had artifact models. We are going to consolidate these in our next meeting and hopefully come up with some good ideas.
Tues:
Went back to my bulidings in muir to do more in depth research. Here are the building summaries I built. These will be comined with pictures and will be part of our paper prototype in conjunction with a map of Muir.
Main Gym
(Insert PIC HERE)
Main Gym Hours:
Monday-Friday: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
Specific Hour information can be found at:
http://recreation.ucsd.edu/main/facil.html
Recreation facility open to all UCSD students and employees. The following is a building breakdown of faciliites by floor:
Level One:
Combative Practice Room
3 Punching Bags
Fitness Room
Fitness Trainers Office
Men's, Women's, and Family Locker Rooms
Massage Room
Sauna
Spinning Room
Squash Court
Reservations: First come, first serve.
Level Two:
Gym Floor
2 Basketball courts
Recreation Offices
Level Three:
South Balcony
Gymnastics Equipment
West Balcony
Additional Gymnastics Equipment
Weight Room
6 Reclined Bycicles
3 Upright Bycicles
5 Treadmills
5 Elliptical Trainers
2 Stair masters
Full weight Room with both machines and free weights
Natatorium
The natatorium is an indoor, waveless swimming pool open to UCSD students. The facility has 4 swimming lanes and two diving boards. During adult swim hours there are two lifeguards on duty at the pool. The natatorium must be entered through the Main Gym.
Hours:
Adult Lap Swimming Hours:
Mon.-Fri.: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Mon.-Wed.-Fri.: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Spa Hours:
Same as Main Gym Hours, however it closes at Sunset:
Main Gym Hours:
Mon-Fri: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
Recreation Gym or “Rec Gym”
The Rec Gym is open to all UCSD affiliates, it’s hours are the same as the Main Gym.
Mon-Fri: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
More specific hours such as specific sports hours may be found at:
http://recreation.ucsd.edu/main/facil.html
The building has only one floor and has the following services:
2 Basketball Courts
Recreation Conference Room
Sports and Recreation Club Offices
I also researched Ledden Auditorium, which we thought was a seperate building, but is actually aprt of HSS. I will use this info and combine it with Ken's HSS info.
Thursday:
Went back to muir and took better pics of inside/outsides of buildings. Also got some additional hours information that I couldn't find my first time. These building summaries will be compiled with other group members. I also input all the data from our paper survies, and but my interview information into an excel document so that we have them all in the same place. All this data will be the basis for our presentation as well as our paper.
TO DO THIS WEEK
FINISH PAPER PROTOTYPE
TEST.TEST.TEST. Iterate.
Develop presentation/work on paper
Finish the project.
A05808932
Monday:
Group meeting. We met up and discussed our different models. We each developed sequence models and some had artifact models. We are going to consolidate these in our next meeting and hopefully come up with some good ideas.
Tues:
Went back to my bulidings in muir to do more in depth research. Here are the building summaries I built. These will be comined with pictures and will be part of our paper prototype in conjunction with a map of Muir.
Main Gym
(Insert PIC HERE)
Main Gym Hours:
Monday-Friday: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
Specific Hour information can be found at:
http://recreation.ucsd.edu/main/facil.html
Recreation facility open to all UCSD students and employees. The following is a building breakdown of faciliites by floor:
Level One:
Combative Practice Room
3 Punching Bags
Fitness Room
Fitness Trainers Office
Men's, Women's, and Family Locker Rooms
Massage Room
Sauna
Spinning Room
Squash Court
Reservations: First come, first serve.
Level Two:
Gym Floor
2 Basketball courts
Recreation Offices
Level Three:
South Balcony
Gymnastics Equipment
West Balcony
Additional Gymnastics Equipment
Weight Room
6 Reclined Bycicles
3 Upright Bycicles
5 Treadmills
5 Elliptical Trainers
2 Stair masters
Full weight Room with both machines and free weights
Natatorium
The natatorium is an indoor, waveless swimming pool open to UCSD students. The facility has 4 swimming lanes and two diving boards. During adult swim hours there are two lifeguards on duty at the pool. The natatorium must be entered through the Main Gym.
Hours:
Adult Lap Swimming Hours:
Mon.-Fri.: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Mon.-Wed.-Fri.: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Spa Hours:
Same as Main Gym Hours, however it closes at Sunset:
Main Gym Hours:
Mon-Fri: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
Recreation Gym or “Rec Gym”
The Rec Gym is open to all UCSD affiliates, it’s hours are the same as the Main Gym.
Mon-Fri: 7:00am-11:00pm
Sat: 7:30am-11:00pm
Sun: 9:30am-11:00pm
More specific hours such as specific sports hours may be found at:
http://recreation.ucsd.edu/main/facil.html
The building has only one floor and has the following services:
2 Basketball Courts
Recreation Conference Room
Sports and Recreation Club Offices
I also researched Ledden Auditorium, which we thought was a seperate building, but is actually aprt of HSS. I will use this info and combine it with Ken's HSS info.
Thursday:
Went back to muir and took better pics of inside/outsides of buildings. Also got some additional hours information that I couldn't find my first time. These building summaries will be compiled with other group members. I also input all the data from our paper survies, and but my interview information into an excel document so that we have them all in the same place. All this data will be the basis for our presentation as well as our paper.
TO DO THIS WEEK
FINISH PAPER PROTOTYPE
TEST.TEST.TEST. Iterate.
Develop presentation/work on paper
Finish the project.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
My Apologies
Hey guys sorry that i missed the wednesday meeting. I had a mandatory event that i had to go to. I was wondering if we could meet this weekend? Anyway here's the data I've collected thus far.
Visitor Interview:
3rd Year. Male UCLA Student. Has no experience with the maps.ucsd.edu site.
I'll go into details later, but the main points were that
1) He wanted a larger map (on the screen) so that when you zoom in you can still see the location relative to the rest of the campus (as opposed to just beeing able to see the building)
2) He really didn't like the search results and complained that they were too arbitrary (some results were not relevant to the search etc)
Anyway here's how the interview went down:
I asked him to find each of the 6 admin buildings for the colleges and study lounges for the colleges using whatever means available to him on the computer (i didn't leave maps.ucsd.edu for him open)
He used google (because "it's the easiest way to search for things") and typed in "UCSD Maps"
the first link was to maps.ucsd.edu and he got there from it.
Instead of searching for the admin sites, he clicked on the buildings link which then gave a wide range of buildings. He clicked his way to Revelle Admin building. It showed the visitor's map.
-He spent a lot of time looking at the map and didn't realize that the yellow highlighted building was a representation of where the location was. He eventually figured it out and commented that "the name of the building is blocked out by the yellow dot."
-He wasn't very comfortable getting to the location. He said that he would need to be in the general area first before being able to begin finding it.
Next he clicked on Marshall Admin building.
He said he wasn't that comfortable getting to the location (similar to the revelle one). I asked him what would give him a better mental representation of the location. He said that
1) "if they made the frame (of the map) bigger it would be better because you get a better perspective"
2) "The map seems too compact. It makes it hard because UCSD is a very large campus."
He went to the building index again and tried to find the ERC admin building, but couldn't. He then clicked on the visitors link and still couldn't find it. Next he tried searching for "roosevelt admin" and finally got the yellow dot to show up (he found he location.)
I asked him how he felt about parking there, and and first he said that he wouldn't be comfortable parking near it, but then he noticed the parking map and clicked on it and said he wouldn't have a hard time afterall. He mentioned that it would be better if the main roads were easier to see so that it's easier to drive there.
Now in finding the 6th college admin building he had the most trouble. Building index lead to nothing. Clicked on departments and looked around still nothing. he then went to google and ended up on tritonlink. He said that if he got to the 6th college main website, he'd probably be able to find the admin building. The link he found under the 6th college site in "About Us" lead him back to the maps.ucsd.edu map (this time with a yellow dot indicating where the location is).
He was confused at this point because the building highlighted didn't have a name. He said that he would have to assume that this was the admin building since it was the building under "About Us". He said that he'd call the building and confirm because the map didn't help him out enough in finding the location.
For the Muir admin building, he did the same thing as with the 6th, he went to the Muir main site. This time, the link lead him to maps.ucsd.edu as well, but a huge chunk of John muir college was highlighted. He said that he had no idea where the admin building was and would just go to the general area and ask around from there.
The guy i interviewed had no qualms with the visual aspect of the map because it has "visitor, parking, and simple" maps, which he thought was helpful.
This guy had a very difficult time finding any study lounges. He wanted to stop (due to frustration) but i urged him to keep going as if he absolutely needed to find the location.
He searched for "Marshall Stduy hall" in the search results and many search results appeared, none being a study lounge of any sort. He then went to google and looked for "Muir college study hall". He clicked on the John Muir site and commented that he'd have to say the study halls were in tioga and tenaya, because otherwise he'd have no idea where it was. (The information on the Muir site indicated that you could study there). He didn't know that Tioga and Tenaya were residential areas.
The rest of the colleges held the same results. He couldn't really find any of them and became rather frustrated. He commented that the maps site wasn't that bad, but if you had to look for specific things (like that maybe don't have a specific name) then it's hard to find.
He said that he would just go onto the campus and ask the people around where the location was (around the general area) because he couldn't find it with maps.ucsd.edu.
Visitor Interview:
3rd Year. Male UCLA Student. Has no experience with the maps.ucsd.edu site.
I'll go into details later, but the main points were that
1) He wanted a larger map (on the screen) so that when you zoom in you can still see the location relative to the rest of the campus (as opposed to just beeing able to see the building)
2) He really didn't like the search results and complained that they were too arbitrary (some results were not relevant to the search etc)
Anyway here's how the interview went down:
I asked him to find each of the 6 admin buildings for the colleges and study lounges for the colleges using whatever means available to him on the computer (i didn't leave maps.ucsd.edu for him open)
He used google (because "it's the easiest way to search for things") and typed in "UCSD Maps"
the first link was to maps.ucsd.edu and he got there from it.
Instead of searching for the admin sites, he clicked on the buildings link which then gave a wide range of buildings. He clicked his way to Revelle Admin building. It showed the visitor's map.
-He spent a lot of time looking at the map and didn't realize that the yellow highlighted building was a representation of where the location was. He eventually figured it out and commented that "the name of the building is blocked out by the yellow dot."
-He wasn't very comfortable getting to the location. He said that he would need to be in the general area first before being able to begin finding it.
Next he clicked on Marshall Admin building.
He said he wasn't that comfortable getting to the location (similar to the revelle one). I asked him what would give him a better mental representation of the location. He said that
1) "if they made the frame (of the map) bigger it would be better because you get a better perspective"
2) "The map seems too compact. It makes it hard because UCSD is a very large campus."
He went to the building index again and tried to find the ERC admin building, but couldn't. He then clicked on the visitors link and still couldn't find it. Next he tried searching for "roosevelt admin" and finally got the yellow dot to show up (he found he location.)
I asked him how he felt about parking there, and and first he said that he wouldn't be comfortable parking near it, but then he noticed the parking map and clicked on it and said he wouldn't have a hard time afterall. He mentioned that it would be better if the main roads were easier to see so that it's easier to drive there.
Now in finding the 6th college admin building he had the most trouble. Building index lead to nothing. Clicked on departments and looked around still nothing. he then went to google and ended up on tritonlink. He said that if he got to the 6th college main website, he'd probably be able to find the admin building. The link he found under the 6th college site in "About Us" lead him back to the maps.ucsd.edu map (this time with a yellow dot indicating where the location is).
He was confused at this point because the building highlighted didn't have a name. He said that he would have to assume that this was the admin building since it was the building under "About Us". He said that he'd call the building and confirm because the map didn't help him out enough in finding the location.
For the Muir admin building, he did the same thing as with the 6th, he went to the Muir main site. This time, the link lead him to maps.ucsd.edu as well, but a huge chunk of John muir college was highlighted. He said that he had no idea where the admin building was and would just go to the general area and ask around from there.
The guy i interviewed had no qualms with the visual aspect of the map because it has "visitor, parking, and simple" maps, which he thought was helpful.
This guy had a very difficult time finding any study lounges. He wanted to stop (due to frustration) but i urged him to keep going as if he absolutely needed to find the location.
He searched for "Marshall Stduy hall" in the search results and many search results appeared, none being a study lounge of any sort. He then went to google and looked for "Muir college study hall". He clicked on the John Muir site and commented that he'd have to say the study halls were in tioga and tenaya, because otherwise he'd have no idea where it was. (The information on the Muir site indicated that you could study there). He didn't know that Tioga and Tenaya were residential areas.
The rest of the colleges held the same results. He couldn't really find any of them and became rather frustrated. He commented that the maps site wasn't that bad, but if you had to look for specific things (like that maybe don't have a specific name) then it's hard to find.
He said that he would just go onto the campus and ask the people around where the location was (around the general area) because he couldn't find it with maps.ucsd.edu.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
MEETING TONIGHT
Reminder that we are meeting tonight at 10:30. Bring your visitor information as well as some of the models.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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