Is an app the right way to guide visitors to the central Hospital in Karlstad? A new research study will try to provide an answer to that question. The study is a breakthrough for research in real location within DigitalWell.
The methodology is developed at Karlstad University and for the trials a prototyping system called Ozlab is used.
“It looks like an app but is controlled by a real person.
The usability lab, Ozlab, has been frequently occupied this spring, among other thins for eyetracking-surveys, updating of the manual and introductionfilms.
From the latter half of January we had two German students as internships for 10 weeks, Antonia Appel and Jakob Kümmerle, from DHBW, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg. They helped students conducting various projects on undergraduate and master level with eyetracking equipment.
Daria Tonetto from Italian InfoCert visiting the usability lab during a break in the CREDENTIAL project plenary meeting at Karlstad University in April 2018.
InfoCert are conducting user evaluations on their LegalMail pilot demonstrator within the project, while Karlstad University develops and tests user interfaces for the general CREDENTIAL Wallet functions.
This January, two students from the Cooperative State University in Stuttgart (DHBW-Stuttgart), Fabian Jaskotka and Kai Langenekert, joined the Usability Lab at Karlstad University. Fabian, from Hamburg, and Kai, from Backnang, have never been to Sweden before.
This year’s International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) is held in Larnaca, Cyprus between September 6th – 8th.
Two contributions from the Usability lab:
The article “Wizard of Oz in the Evolving Map of Design Research: Trying to Frame GUI Interaction Interview” by John Sören Pettersson, Malin Wik and Henrik Andersson presents and discusses GUI-ii based on Elisabeth Zanders four cardinal dimensions used to frame design practice and design research.
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During the winter and spring, a new graphical user interface for the web-based Ozlab have been launched. The new user interface allows the ‘wizard’ to build the shell more easily and Ozlab is also easier to manoeuvre in the ‘test runner mode’.
The interns Manuel Gawert and Caroline Kayser are both studying their second year on the International Management for Business and Information Technology-programme at DHBW Stuttgart.
During the first study period of this spring, they had their internship at the Information Systems Usability Laboratory where they worked updating the Ozlab manual, as the Shell builder now has a reallocated user interface.
Manuel and Caroline also developed instructional videos on how to ope
Hello!
I am Lou Hinterberg, and I study Information Management (BA) in Hannover, Germany. This programme is similar to the undergraduate programmes within Information Systems at Karlstad University, e. g. Web and Multimedia. Currently, I complete the 7th semester which is my last semester of my studies. This semester doesn’t include any lectures but an internship with a duration of ten weeks.
Xin Chen ("Albee"), PhD candidate at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, presented a part of her PhD research.
Her research topic is:
Smart Communication in Lifestyles under Transformation: Exploring Smart Mobile Devices User Experience among Youth in Hong Kong
Xin’s research interests are in user behaviour, user experience, human-computer interaction and industrial design.
Lou Hinterberg, who studies Information Management in Hannover, Germany, will have a ten week internship at Information Systems department at Karlstad University, starting 8th of August, mainly working in the usability lab.
Karlstad University is in the process of switching to a new CMS.
Part of Information Systems visited Nursing Science and their Clinical Centre.
On Wednesday the 8th of June, Malin Wik, John Sören Pettersson, Bridget Kane and Henrik Andersson visited Nursing Science and their Clinical Centre. Anders Sidenblad, Nursing teacher and doctoral student at IMH at Linköpings university, hosted a demonstration of their training mannequin.
The Clinical Centre trains students in clinical decision making using a realistic mannequin.
Hedmark University of Applied Sciences visited Karlstad University and, among else, had a guided tour in Karlstad university's usability lab.
Hedmark University of Applied Sciences (HUAS) visited Karlstad University (KAU) during two days, 9-10 June. HUAS has many projects together with KAU. HUAS is one of the project partners in the ongoing project, CriseIT, together with KAU.
Students from the upper secondary school Brogårdgymnasiet in Kristinehamn visited Karlstad University
During friday the June 3rd second- and third year students from the Technology programme and Electricity programme at the upper secondary school Brogårdsgymnasiet visited us at the Information System department.
Henrik Andersson and Rasmus Nim each presented a paper with poster at the Student Interaction Design Research conference in Malmö, Sweden, 1-2 April, 2016.
Henrik presented a pilot study from summer 2015 when he worked within a EU project at Computer Science dept. at Karlstad University.
Malin Wik, lab assistant and nowadays PhD student, presented some of our teaching methods in HCI at a seminar March 9 at Södertörn.
Malin was invited by the department of Media technology to speak on “Wizardry, students and research: how the Wizard-of-Oz system Ozlab survived for 15 years.”
The presentation was on how Informations Systems at Karlstad University has used the Ozlab system and Wizard-of-Oz techniques in its undergrad education, from the very first course to
Loredana Sundberg Cerrato from Dublin gave an intriguing seminar on February 10, 2016.
Loredana, who also presented the ADAPT centre in Dublin this day (see post on the web pages of Information Systems), gave an in-depth view on research on dialogue supporting machine translation between languages for the HCI group and Master students.
Her presentation is uploaded as an pdf file on this web page.
A picture of the presenter from her power point slide (see pdf).
Bridget Kane, PhD, has pursued research within Health Informatics and CSCW at Trinity College and St. James Hospital in Dublin. During the spring 2016 she will help students who write HCI theses in English. She will also contribute to the master course Models and Methods for Multimedia Development. She has a post-graduate diploma in Statistics and will assist in the research education during this spring.
The Business Research Lab at the University of Wollongong has now got its own Ozlab installation.
In December 14-16 our lab assistant Malin Wik is supervising the installationen of the web-based Ozlab.
Associate Professor Rodney Clarke directs the Business Research Lab at the University of Wollongong.
