Mobile, Education and Healthcare : A Tale of Four Projects in Interaction Design (Jingtao Wang: Dec 2)

He presented a high-level overview of four ongoing HCI projects that explore how techniques in mobile interfaces and visual end-user programming can be created and leveraged to address emerging interdisciplinary problems in education and healthcare.   Examples are: 1) ScatterDice Mobile (SDM) is an interactive system to explore and navigate large scale, multi-dimensional datasets on mobile devices via one-handed motion and orientation gestures; 2) BFT Mobile is a cross-platform, end-user programming environment and runtime to allow psychology researchers to design, deploy and monitor cognitive, behavior and learning experiments with ease; 3) In the DashReview project, they design a teacher side “dashboard” to make it easy for instructors to browse, navigate, and make sense of the written artifacts collected in the iterative writing and review process in a classroom setting; 4) MARBLS (Medical Alert Rule Building System) is an end-programming environment that combines a block based visual language and direct graph manipulation for clinical alert rule building.  he illustrated the motivations behind each project and showing demonstrations of ongoing prototypes.