Representations

Why is this important?

They appear everywhere in looking, designing, and the thing you’re making… for example:

• Requirements Analysis: users’ artifacts, your notes, your scenarios, ???

• Designing: sketches, mock-ups, even Post-Its in project planning, ???

• Your project: web content, icons, red/green LEDs, variable names, class hierarchies, ???

Why is this important?

• Is a video the same as being there? • When we point at a picture and say “There is

Joe”, what are we missing?

Representations

• How does your choice of media affect how you understand / are understood by others?– Issue for project– Issue for data collection– Issue for developing design– Issue for communicating to team

• Pictures ?• Text ?• Video ?• Sketches ?

Representing people

• What is the measure of …

Exercise

Imagine your Homework 1 scenario. Consider what it would look like if presented:

• As a video of the actual people . What more would you need to make it understood?

• As a video of dolls acting out the scenario.• As a Flash animation.

ExerciseImagine your Homework 1 scenario. Consider what it would

look like if presented:• As a video of the actual people . What more would you need

to make it understood?• As a video of dolls acting out the scenario.• As a Flash animation.• TO DO:

– Divide sheet of paper into 6 or 8 boxes– Illustrate HW 1 scenario as a comic book

(graphic novel)– When done exchange with person next to you– I will randomly select people to explain what

the scenario says

For Thursday

• Homework 2: HTA• Read UE: Chapter 3 (if you haven’t

already)