exploring the use of concept mapping to facilitate interaction design processes
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Presentation at CHI Sparks 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Exploring the use of
Concept Mapping to
facilitate Interaction
Design ProcessesIlya Shmorgun
Interaction design in
the context of
software engineering
Lack of a transversal
technique to support
interaction design processes
through various stages
Is there a technique, which
can be used to support
interaction design processes
through various stages?
Supporting
• Elicitation
• Communication
• Representation
• Adaptation
Concept Mapping
• Applied in education, government and
business
• Easily understood by both school
children and researchers
• Presents information in a visual and
structured way
• Surfaces strengths and weaknesses of
ideas
Technique
• Easy to understand
• Flexible
• Adaptable to specific context
• Not limited by any particular field
Case Studies
• Several projects conducted over a
course of 8 months
• Designing various prototypes of mobile
applications
mTLU
The Problem
How to make studies
related information
available through a
mobile device?
Application Concept
Provide Studies
Related Information
through a Mobile
Application
Concept Maps
Drawbacks
• Concept maps do not easily scale
• A lot of nodes make a concept map
difficult to read
Future Developments
Explore whether concept mapping
can be used to provide similar
support to state transition diagrams
with the aim of representing an
application’s logic