Sony Mobile in Lund has developed a Wizard-of-Oz tool to support WOz testing of augmented-reality applications from mobile units. Research assistant Malin Wik visited Gunter Alce and Klas Hermodsson just before the autumn semester commenced to see WozARd and other remarkable systems. Via Skype also professor John Soren Pettersson participated in the discussions on collaborations (incl.
Malin Wik presented a poster on using the Wizard-of-Oz technique and Ozlab as a requirements gathering method, and demonstrated the Ozlab system at SIDeR'14 at KTH in Stockholm, April 11-12.
M4D2014 the 4th HumanIT conference on Mobile Communication for Development was held in Dakar, Senegal, April 7-10. John Sören Pettersson together with other HumanIT researchers track chairs. John Sören also made a demonstration of a local WiFI setup of the new web-based Ozlab.
In April four students from Brogård high school visited the Usability lab.
Malin Wik demonstrated the Ozlab system, and Katarina Groth demonstrated eyetracking.
As a part of a course (Informations Systems: Practical Training 7.5 ECTS credits) two Web and multimedia students, Jonatan Jansson and Erik Knutsson, completed their internship in the Usability Lab.
Their tasks included development of the new web Ozlab system. For example, Jonathan and Erik developed functions that simplify the shell building process.
During the fall of 2013, students on the course ISGC16 "Usability testing, prototyping and evaluation" were asked to evaluate "My Page" at Karlstad University's website through user tests. "My Page" was tested in two iterations with 30 students users.
"My Page" provides features for students such as course registration, sign up for exams, and exam results.
The Ozlab system has been used for many years by Karlstad University researchers when exploring interface concepts and paradigms for computer applications. Thanks to the incorporation of the Wizard of Oz technique researchers could simulate functionality without spending time or resources on programming.
Though, as time went by, our tool needed updating. Therefore, the Ozlab system is now being redeveloped towards a web-based system.
How do we do when we search for information on the web, how do we navigate, and what catches our attention? Students from the IT-Design and Web and Multimedia programs are looking into these questions.
