The purpose of this assignment:
To become familiar with Constantine and Lockwood's Interface
Architecture as an abstract model of the interface.
Please do the following:
As usual, you should turn this work in as individuals, but
may work with up to 2 other students to discuss the assignment and
try the methods on each other.
In this assignment it is important that your work is consistent
with and a refinement of the work of previous assignments. In other
words, prior design representations should inform the work you do
here, and not be ignored.
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Read Constantine & Lockwood Chapter 6 and review the class
slides. See also chapter 15 for another example of interface
architecture design.
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Using "sticky notes" or simply peices of paper (do
not use a computer), create Contexts to support your Essential
Use Cases from Assignment
3, as we did in class. Be sure that
you indicate which use cases are supported by a context. Try
to support as many use cases as you can in one context without
making it too cluttered. If you needed more than one context
then make a navigation map.
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Scan in your sticky notes when your designs are complete:
there are scanners in the ICS labs. If you can't get to a scanner,
redraw the final documents in a drawing program, but do not
do the original work on the computer!
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Make a web page that includes all of the documents you
created. Include a paragraph summarizing
what you learned about the potential utility of these design
representations and the process of refining them.
Note please make this a different web page
than the one for Assignment 3. We don't want to have too
much on a page. However, your Assignment 4 pages should
have links to your Assignment 3 page that indicate how the
contexts address your previous use cases.
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Submit your assignment in the disCourse discussion for Assignment
4 (the URL of your page will be the "web address" of the thread).
- Comment in some nontrivial way on at least the assignment submitted
before you, and preferably on more for participation credits.
Due 2/16
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