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Fall Quarter 1998
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Fall Quarter 1998
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| Project Overview |
WDNNSN is a project aimed at designing a system that will allow students to personally capture and access their lecture experiences electronically within a Classroom 2000 environment.
The emphasis of the project is to design a system that will allow students to take notes (and then to access notes) in a way that they generally normally would (i.e., it fits their mental model of what it means to take notes, and to review notes). The first problem that arises is trying to determine "how do people normally take notes?" and "how do people normally review their notes?". Secondly, in introducing a computer, an inevitable change in the way notes are captured and access will occur. The challenge here is to determine what potential changes are likely to occur; i.e. what changes are desired and which aren't must next be assessed. And finally, the system is designed for use in the Classroom 2000 environment. This type of environment already captures a lot of information for the students. Given that "the room" already captures what the professor is saying, writing and directing attentions toward (all information readily available for the students) how then does student-notetaking occur in such an environment. i.e. what additional capabilities would a student want to have in their hands, at their desk?
The trick here may be not to go over board on functionalities but to focus on designing a system that students will be familiar with. But the tradeoff there is: what would be the benefit of such a system?
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