Month: March 2019

“Can Computers Create Art – Aaron Hertzmann” The three articles were very well written, providing a lot of detailed insight to a lay man or even a computer science enthusiast who may not be well versed with the fine details of Art History. The first article talks about how photography became an art form, from…

In this paper, the authors expanded the functionality of Designers’ Outpost, a system designed for web development using a whiteboard, post it notes, and cameras. With their improvements on the system, they capture the design history amongst collaborators located in the same physical space. Their system has three main mechanisms: 1) a main timeline, 2)…

In this paper, the authors conduct an in depth analysis of the Wikipedia editing process. They differentiate between two types of coordination: explicit coordination and implicit coordination. More editors did not always lead to an increased quality in the articles. Implicit coordination that was focused was useful with a lot of editors, but explicit coordination…

In this paper, the authors developed a system for collocated workers that serves as a workload manager. The manager takes into account the task difficulty, strengths and weaknesses of the workers in the pool, local history, and how various subtasks are related to each other in order to help inform its decision. After the workload…

“Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Thomsen, Ethan Phelps-Goodman, Robert Lee, James A. Landay. Where Do Web Sites Come From? Capturing and Interacting with Design History. CHI 2002, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. “ The authors propose an intuitive method for the design and history management of website design. A smart virtual wall that allows design…

Summary The researchers of this paper design an intuitive method for managing histories and attempted to enhance the ability of users to retrieve prior information. They were able to accomplish this by creating a concept which used a virtual wall where users could post post-it notes collaboratively. Reflection I couldn’t read this paper without thinking…

The main paper for this session was “Where Do Web Sites Come From? Capturing and Interacting with Design History”, a collaborative work between UC Berkeley and the University of Aarhus from Klemmer et al. In the paper, the authors describe the design and performance of a system titled Designer’s Outpost. The main idea of the…

Summary: Reflecting the past, one can know the future. To achieve that, the authors developed a history system that can help decision makers, students, designers, and their successors with creation, revision, and reflection for collaborative, early-stage information design. More specifically, the work is for a web design tool the authors proposed in previous studies. In…

Reflection of Klemmer, S. R., Thomsen, M., Phelps-Goodman, E., Lee, R., & Landay, J. A. (2002, April). Where do web sites come from?: capturing and interacting with design history. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-8). ACM. Summary: The goal of the research is to support web designers to…

Where Do Web Sites Come From? Capturing and Interacting with Design History Scott R. Klemmer, Michael Thomsen, Ethan Phelps-Goodman, Robert Lee, and James A. Landay. 2002. Where do web sites come from?: capturing and interacting with design history. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’02). ACM, New York, NY, USA,…