Ozlabkonceptet presenterat vid SMART, Univ. of Wollongong

Vid ett lunchseminarium den 28 April presenterade John Sören Pettersson en litteraturgenomgång av honom och Malin Wik och sina slutsatser om varför Ozlab-konceptet har överlevt i 15 år till skillnad från alla andra liknande prototypingsystem som fallit ur bruk efter bara några år.

The Wizard-of-Oz method has been around for decades, allowing researchers and practitioners to conduct prototyping without programming. The extensive literature review in the field that we have conducted revealed, however, that the re-usable tools supporting the method do not seem to last more than a few years. Generic systems started to appear from around the turn of the millennium, but most have fallen out of use.
Our interest in doing this review was inspired by the ongoing re-development of our own Wizard-of-Oz tool, the Ozlab, into a system based on web technology. The presentation highlighted pitfalls for systems that try to circumvent the need for programming in experimentation within interaction design.