Month: February 2019

Multi-Device Storyboards for Cinematic Narratives in VR Henrikson, Rorik & Araujo, Bruno & Chevalier, Fanny & Singh, Karan & Balakrishnan, Ravin. (2016). Multi-Device Storyboards for Cinematic Narratives in VR. 787-796. 10.1145/2984511.2984539.  Summary: In this paper, the author points out that planning narratives for VR is quite a challenging problem, due to many barriers. Lacking supporting…

I have stared too long! A sort-of-reflection of Henrikson, R., Araujo, B., Chevalier, F., Singh, K., & Balakrishnan, R. (2016, October). Multi-device storyboards for cinematic narratives in VR. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 787-796). ACM. Disclaimer: I have limited experience of using VR (certainly not more than 3…

Summary The researchers of this paper examine the benefits of parallel prototype versus serial prototyping. They hired participants that were tasked to create an ad-banner. The results of the banner were place online where online behavior of users was used to assess the quality of the participants’ creation. Additionally the banners were evaluated by experts…

The reading for this class was “Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy,” a work from Stanford researchers Dow et al. Though the idea behind this paper is not too complicated, I found the methods and results to be intriguing. The study concerned itself with the following task: create an…

Reflection 2 In this paper, the authors measure effectiveness through the number of clicks users had for ad creations, time spent on the website, and independent ratings from professionals. One set of participants created ads in a serial fashion, continually refining and receiving feedback. The other set of participants created ads in parallel, developing multiple…

“Dow, S. P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D. L., & Klemmer, S. R. (2010). Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 17(4), 18.” The paper proposes that parallel prototyping leads to better design results than serial prototyping. Dow et al touch…

Reflection on Dow, S. P., Glassco, A., Kass, J., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, D. L., & Klemmer, S. R. (2010). Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 17(4), 18. Summary: The paper presents a controlled experiment where participants created online advertisement banners under two different conditions: (1)…

Summary The paper argues that iterative process is widely accepted to be beneficial to design and designer. The authors extend iteration by brining in parallelism and comparing parallel iterative procedure to serialized iterative procedure. The authors first introduced potential theoretical benefit of parallel design, in which they brought about three hypotheses: Parallel prototyping leads to…

Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy Steven P. Dow, Alana Glassco, Jonathan Kass, Melissa Schwarz, Daniel L. Schwartz, and Scott R. Klemmer. 2010. Parallel prototyping leads to better design results, more divergence, and increased self-efficacy. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 17, 4, Article 18 (December 2010), 24 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1879831.1879836 Summary:…

The reading for this class was “Searching for Analogical Ideas with Crowds,” a 2014 paper from Carnegie Mellon University researchers Yu, Kittur, and Kraut. It looks at how to improve solutions to problems by leveraging the previous ideas of many others. The authors argue that finding analogical problems to the task at hand can serve…