Paper Reading- UI Evaluation

A Gesture Controlled User Interface for Inclusive Design and Evaluative Study of Its Usability


I choose this paper to evaluate because its material deviated from the normal type of article our group has blogged about.  This paper was discussing an evaluation system of a user interface for a gesture recognition program.  Considering that our project is similar, even though the methods of capturing the gestures are different, I felt that it would be beneficial to us to study how other people completed user studies and evaluated them.

The first third of the paper is focused on previous works and the development of "GCUI" technology, or Gesture Controlled User Interfaces.  It goes on to note that with introduction of this technology into the games industry, the increased desire for it has drove prices down to levels that precipitate researchers to expand upon this subject with much more interest than in the past.

The meat of the paper contains the most useful information to our group.  It has an evaluation and discussion of popular research methodology, specifically pertaining to the evaluation of success of the project.  The paper espouses both qualitative and quantitative approaches as valid options, each with their benefits and detractions.  The specifics of the evaluation methods I will leave in the paper, it would be pointless to rewrite what they have done, but when it comes time to perform these evaluations for our own project, I plan to revisit this paper and use it as an inspiration or as help when crafting our own user studies or surveys.



Source:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=7503&returnUrl=http://www.scirp.org%2Fjournal%2FHome.aspx%3FIssueID%3D1069