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Intro informatica feminale

Between Objects, Connections and (female) Visitors: (Female) Information Scientists put Hypermedia in a Museum
Seminar. Lecturer: Ulrike Wilkens, University of Bremen, Germany

15. Sep. 1999

Which free degrees are there regarding the situation?

- interdisciplinary work
- realizable (technical): Cost, time, competence
- creative input (team composition)

Free degrees for users (e.g. A-Volve)
- playful interaction

Description of the situation, for which (situation) one wants to design something.

• the (artificial designed) scope, in which something takes place (general)
  
• each scenario is a description (text, storyboard) of the activities
  a use might engage in while pursuing a particular concern = basic-level task scenarios HDI (Human Computer Interaction)

Design = task-artifact cycle:

(hardware, software, applications, interfaces) can be interpreted as theories, as embodying myriad specific propositions about their users and the circumstances of their use.

Simultaneous description of artefact and use!

Basis for decisions (Carroll / Rosson, S. 242 *)

A claims analysis offers an explanation of the scenarios, an analyses of why the scenarios can occur.

* John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson (IBM Watson Research Center):
Getting Around the Task-Artifact Cycle: How to Make Claims and Design by Scenario. In: M. Rudisill; C. Lewis; P.G. Polson; T. D. McKay (eds.): HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DESIGN, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1996, pp- 229 - 268

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