Research Associate, Go-Lab Project

Jan Rudinský, Ph.D.

Current Research Postdoctoral researcher, University of Iceland Prof. Ebba Þóra Hvannberg

HCI, Software Engineering Natural user interfaces

Voice communication Design of virtual environments Emergency service training Networking and Telco

EU-FP7 project (2010 - 2013) Crisis management training

CRitical Incident management training System using Interactive Simulation environment

Development of training simulator in VE HI involved in half of WPs

Methodology Requirements elicitation, Concept development, Evaluation

Research results Conference publications, demos [ISCRAM, DIS, NordiCHI,

HCII] 12 partners across Europe

CRISIS Project

Go-Lab Project Goals

Engage students in science Via inquiry-based learning [Rocard, 2007]

Objectives Create pedagogically structured learning spaces

(WP1) Determine inquiry classroom scenarios (WP1) Identify end-user personalization features and

inquiry learning apps (WP4) Create opportunities for social interactions (WP6) Evaluation of Go-Lab infrastructure (WP8)

Stakeholders Already known

Teachers at primary and secondary schools School children Researchers at science laboratories

Opened to innovators

Strategy Phase 0

Possibilities of current online labs P2 Requirements Analysis

Requirements for Go-Lab portal development Distributed requirements engineering approach,

supported by social media Requirements integration

P3 Iterative Design and Evaluation Make sure requirements were addressed Test prototype with students and teachers Focus on usability, user experience

Development

Evaluation

Requirements

WP3

WP5

Requirements Phase I Objectives

Create pedagogically structured learning spaces (WP1) Determine inquiry classroom scenarios (WP1)

Task 3.1 Collect data on user preferences and educative practices in context

systematic analysis of educative practices in authentic educational settings Initial definition of the pedagogical specifications (WP1)

Methodology Literature review (e.g. Rydberg, 2004) to prepare checklists for: structured observations of teachers and children Selection of interview topics for: open observations [Howell,1972] followed by semi-structured interviews Preparation of large-scale surveys for: gathering quantitative data to infer general profiles of the educative

practices

Requirements Phase II Task 3.2

integrating the multi-source requirements, identifying overlaps and addressing trade-offs

Methodology Collect the requirements from:

Content (WP2), pedagogical (WP1) and technology perspectives (WP5)

Organize workshops (focus groups) Integrate requirements, identify overlaps and address trade-offs Early prototypes evaluation

Develop web application for requirements sharing (?) filtering and prioritizing the requirements by distributed stakeholders

WP3

WP1

WP2

WP5

Requirements Phase III Task 3.3

needs analysis and generation of creative options Methodology

Organize workshops (focus groups) For stakeholders and potential innovators On needs analysis

Discussions of what is done, future projection and context for the portal On creative options

Field trials discussion Consideration of organizational, institutional and economic conditions

Open online discussion forum (?) Facilitate progressive discussion of stakeholders and innovators

Evaluation Goals

Identify usability and user experience problems Use context-sensitive evaluation methods

Methodology Literature review of context-sensitive methods Usability evaluation (effective, efficient and pleasant) User experience evaluation

Expert-based methods (lab) [Nielsen, 1993] End-user evaluation (field, remote) [Ericcson, 1993] Questionnaires (SUS, SUMI, etc.) Cultural probes [Gaver et al.1999] Experience sampling [Larson, Csikszentmihalyi, 1983] Emerging methods

WP3

WP1

WP2

WP5

Interplay and Timeline Between development and

requirements/evaluation Aforementioned workshops and

regular project and work package meetings work package deliverables and progress reports

preparation

Year 1

•D3.1•Preliminary Go-Lab requirements specifications, needs analysis, and

creative options

Year 2

•D3.2•Formative usability report on the early prototype of the Go-Lab portal

Year 3

•D3.3•Formative usability and user experience evaluation report on the initial

Go-Lab Portal

Questions Your questions…? Project scale?

"common but localized Go-Lab experimentation interface“ Three online labs resulting in portal to use them? General methodology how to create a portal to access

any lab? Standardization

How many work packages involve LE? What does Go-Lab stand for?