CiTerrific

The Fine Art of Citing Works

Gabor Szabo

Jansen Lai

Daron Spektor

Robert Cam

Daniel Lee

Jedidiah Djatmiko

Intended Use of Interface

Intended use: Allow users to create bibliographies quickly and easily.

Users can: Construct new bibliographies Cite a previously used source Format a bibliography as desired

Intended users: College students who need to create bibliographies when writing papers.

Walkthrough

Task: The user wants to cite the book Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant using MLA format.

Step 1: Specify standard

Step 2: Choose a source type

Step 3: Fill in information

ShneidermanBen

Designing the User Interface

Catherine Plaisant

Addison-Wesley

San Francisco

2005

Task Completed

Special Features

Mock Bibliography Allow users to monitor current progress while

interacting with the interface

Library After creating a citation, source is saved in library If the user needs to reuse that citation in the

future, they can easily access it

Recent Choices

Changes to Interface

Button Naming

Welcome Screen

“Second Author” Fields

Problems with Button Naming

Users had difficulty identifying the functionality of certain buttons because of their names

This violates heuristic of “Match between system and the real world”

Button Naming Changes“Format” to

“Format Bibliography”

“Edit” to “Edit Entry”

“Copy” to

“Copy All to Clipboard”

“Open” to

“Open Bibliography”

Button Naming Changes“Enumerated” to “Numbered List”

“Manual Ordering” to “Customized Ordering”

Welcome Screen Changes Original prototype had welcome screen where

users select standard to use (“MLA”, “APA”, “Other”)

Welcome Screen Changes

Users had problems accessing “Open Bibliography” from welcome screen.

Got rid of the welcome screen all togetherAllows user to access “Open Bibliography”

from the start.

Internal Locus Of Control

Fields For 2nd Author

“More Authors” button hard to notice

Added fields for 2nd author by default

Moved “More Authors” button below and made button larger

Conclusion

Thanks to our interviewees, design reviewers, Stephen Arnold, and Tara Matthews

Contact: daspek@berkeley.edu

Questions?