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Class Notes from Friday, 10/21/94
By Darin Krasle & Melissa House

Benyon Paper, presented by Alison Nichols (these will be posted later)

Question: Define Holistic vs Serialistic learning
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary says:

Holistic: relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems
rather wthan with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts

Serialistic: of, relating to, consisting of, or arranged in a series, rank,
or row


Questions/Discussion:

How do users feel about an IQ test?
What about Privacy Issues?
Are there other ways to ascertain these abilities?
If personality could be isolated, how do you translate it into interface design?

Underlying assumption: Computers more adaptable than humans
        -is he saying you shouldn't have to adapt to systems?
Discussion about abrupt changes
        -why not let the user decide?
        -task dependent - queries
        -providing everything at once would be complexity overkill
        -handicapped users look for a lot of online help
Article doesn't decide if the pragmatic approach will have an impact on HCI
Users won't appreciate having to take an IQ test before using the system
        -many privacy issues involved with this
Are there other ways to ascertain those abilities?
        -why do you need to? as soon as you have this info, you know...
        -no other way that is better
                -you could ask the users, but they probably wouldn't know
        -the user doesn't know that the computer is tracking errors, which is
         pretty sneaky and may not be appreciated
Menus vs command line discussion
        -How much does satisfaction enter into performance?
                -these aren't necessarily correlated
        -computers have the advantage that they're more adaptible than humans
                -only if you MAKE the computers like that
                -the author probably meant that people would rather computers
                 adapt instead of the people
        -why not have both menu & command line available at all times?
                -how would you implement online help with this?
                -information overkill
                -adds too much complexity
                -it can let the user change modes, but then how will it be
                 useful? Can you turn it off?
                        -the actual use doesn't seem to be good for adaptive
                         systems, why bother?
People wouldn't like having their cognitive abilities available to their bosses
        -what if a person couldn't use the interface
        -boss could conclude that he had bad spatial relations and thus wouldn't
         be able to do other things, but this doesn't necessarily follow