Reflecting the past, one can know the future. To achieve\nthat, the authors developed a history system that can help decision makers,\nstudents, designers, and their successors with creation, revision, and\nreflection for collaborative, early-stage information design. More\nspecifically, the work is for a web design tool the authors proposed in\nprevious studies. In this system, design history is accessed through three mechanisms:\nmain timeline, local timeline <\/em>and synopsis view<\/em>. The main timeline<\/em> is a visually navigable set of design thumbnails\norganized on a timeline with branched history along side of it. The local timeline<\/em> enables users to see, in\nthe actual design, a history with just the actions relating to an individual\nobject in the design. The synopsis view <\/em>enables\npost-design review of key bookmarks. These bookmarked states can be annotated\nwith text, and printed as hard copy for easy portability and sharing. This\nsystem is informally demonstrated and evaluated in a lab study with six\nprofessionals. The authors claimed that this history system enhances the design\nprocess itself, and provides new opportunities for reasoning about the design\nof complex artifacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, I don\u2019t really like this paper. First of all, it\nuses a lot of terms and phrases that require a solid background in design and\nhuman centered design, such as first-class\ncitizens <\/em>or Post-it notes<\/em>. Some\nof the terms are even worse, which is based on the authors previous system Designer\u2019s Outpost. <\/em>I really find a hard\ntime to read and interpret this paper. As a direct result, it took me quite\nsome time to finish reading and summarizing the paper than any other reading\nassignments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Secondly, the motivation is not well explained either. It was\nmerely mentioned in the first THREE sentences of Introduction and was not convincing\nenough. It almost appears to me that the authors observed some necessity in\ntheir Designer\u2019s Outpost<\/em> and then wend\ndown the road. But this could also be caused by my lack of background in UI\ndesign research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Last, even for an informal evaluation, I find it hard to swallow\nqualitative results from professionals. Most noticeably, I couldn\u2019t find any description\nabout the demographic background of the \u201cparticipants\u201d or their relation to the\nlab. I have doubt in the validity of the evaluation the authors provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To address the previous questions, I have for the above\nreasons, what could the author do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or how could be the case that reviewers were not complaining?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/ccc2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reflection:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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