This will only help Atlantans, but damn if Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL) airport doesn’t have a security line wait tracker. Sweet! Happy T-day!

Found out about a free talk by Yves Behar, but it’s too late to register! Grrrrrr.

The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation
Catherine Plaisant
There are 4 traditional methods for evaluation of Information Visualization:

Controlled Experiments comparing design elements - compare specific widgets, compare mappings of information to graphical display
Usability Evaluation of a tool - used to provide feedback on the problems users encounter with a tool
Controlled Experiments comparing two (or more) tools - [...]

Happy the Atlanta beltline passed the ballot initiative. Sad it won’t be around until my children are grown.

Authors: Pederson E., Sokoler, T.
“We have developed a prototype architecture that makes up the technical framework for further use studies. The prototype encompasses capture of auditory and visual data, abstraction of such data into compact streams, synthesizing of auditory, visual and haptic imagery from streams of abstract data, and finally display at the receiving end [...]

3 years of Halloween : 2003, 2004, 2005. Thanks iPhoto + Flickr!

Authors: Höök, K., Sengers, P., and Andersson G.
The evaluation of the Influence Machine. Methods: anecdotal, co-discovery, video taped for analysis. Stresses that this evaluation is to inform artists as designers of interactive systems. The question is: Is this a good interaction? Artists are most interested in the detail of each unique interaction. Reports findings textually [...]

Authors: G. Abowd and B. Mynatt (Rodden is on the conference papaer version)
The major challenges for ubicomp systems are:
1. build a robust system
2. tell a compelling story
3. fulfill real needs
4. deploy in an authentic setting
In order to meet these challenges, Gregory and Beth suggest that a feasibility study is indispensable.
“Since it is already a difficult challenge to build robust [...]