User Centered Design Update

Jay TrimbleNASA ARC3-24-10

Tool Status

Current Work Status

Validator (Josh) is released, analytics added

Slicer (Laura) planned completion this May

Google-funded time-based search (Frank) available to try

UCD

First and foremost, think about the users

Using PDS

UCD Overview

Interviews

Heuristic Evals

Kickoff 1st year

Recommendations

Process diagrams

Year 2

Node Reports

Tool Prototypes

Hosting Capability

Home Page Re-design

Google proposal win

Year 3

Tool Releases Analytics

Data Collection 2

Prototypes

Tools

Still need to

Close the loop with analytics (this is in work)

Expand the market

Data

Data is apolitical - Marissa Mayer, Google

Results may surprise you

Data

MER - Mars or Earth time?

Many stories from past missions, particularly Viking, argued against Mars Time

A brief survey collected data from Mars Pathfinder veterans - Mars Time ok

The data told a different story than the stories

Data for UCD

Next steps

A broader, data based characterization of PDS

Participation

Data Collection

Phone interviews

In person interviews

In context observations

Role of analytics

Include broader community and potential new customers

Nature of Results

Some of this will be new knowledge

Some will be articulation of that which is known, but not always available to those who might use it

From here...

User interfaces for PDS 2010, with JPL EN

New and/or improved tools

Tools for Chuck

PDS Google

Initial work funded by proposal

Work funded for a second year

Third year funding is TBD

The Question

Make PDS “better” for who?

Google-funded work must address a broad audience

Google wants the tools to be useful for scientists

Google wants to also address a broader audience

Who are the users?

Possible audience expansion

Amateur Astronomers

Computer Graphic artists, e.g. planetarium show designers

Time-based search

An interface for search refinements based on scalar numerical values

Time is the first parameter deployed

Could also use phase angle, emission, incidence, target distance...

The Interface:Browse

Search on Feature Name

Refine

Numerical Scalar Search

Footprints

Who’s Using It?

Visitors

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