Using a combination of textual description and annotated sketches (hand drawn sketches are perfectly acceptable), outline a design for an appropriate user interface to the scenario application described in your first assignment (or, if used in assignment 2, the scenario described in the class on 29th September). The outline should not be extremely detailed, but should consider the following issues:
· What are the key functions/facilities that need to be present in your user interface?
· What is the anticipated high-level context of use applicable to the application? You might like to describe this explicitly?
· Where might you need to include flexibility, configurability, tailorability, or redundancy?
· How will you assist the users in dealing with switching between different input/output modalities?
· What is the rationale behind your design decisions? What were the options available to you and why did you select the one(s) you did? What constraints are placed on the interaction modalities you can use?
Remember: you are talking about multimodal user interface design so sketches of the user interface will not necessarily mean sketches of a visual user interface; you should consider sketching how an interaction might work if it is non-visual – perhaps with the use of a sequence of small sketches showing the progress of an interaction or the components required to facilitate the interaction. Audio feedback will need to be described in writing.
This assignment is worth 5% of the total course work.
Submissions will be accepted electronically via email (jo.lumsden@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) or as paper hand-ins. Submissions will not be accepted after the class on November 10th and will be returned in the class on November 15th.