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Pub. period:1998-2011
Pub. count:9
Number of co-authors:10



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Helen M. Edwards:2
Gilbert Cockton:2
John Tait:2

 

 

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John Tait:14
Ting-Sheng Lai:3
 
 
 
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Humphries, Lynne and Mcdonald, Sharon (2011): Emotion faces: the design and evaluation of a game for preschool children. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011. pp. 1453-1458.

“We describe the design and initial evaluation of an interactive game that enables preschool children to practise a basic social skill: emotion recognition. Users construct faces to represent 5 basic emotions through the manipulation of individual face parts. An iterative user-centred design process was used to gather image and sound data for the game. A field evaluation revealed that the children (7 boys and 4 girls) enjoyed playing the game and were able to match facial expression to emotions. Girls employed a different approach to game play than boys and achieved a higher success rate but made fewer overall attempts. Affective and co-operative activity was evident with the children showing joint attention and mirroring of emotions during play.”

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2010
 
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Zhao, Tingting and Mcdonald, Sharon (2010): Keep talking: an analysis of participant utterances gathered using two concurrent think-aloud methods. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2010. pp. 581-590.

“This paper presents the results of a study that compared two think-aloud styles: the classic approach and a relaxed think-aloud on the nature and number of participant utterances produced. Overall, ten categories of utterance were extracted from the verbal data ranging from categories that had a direct impact on usability problem analysis, to those which simply described procedural actions. There were no categories of utterance that were unique to either method. The interactive think-aloud led to the production of more utterances that could be directly used in usability problem analysis. Participants provided explanations, opinions and recommendations during classic think-aloud, even though they were not instructed to do so. This finding suggests that the social context of testing may override the classic instruction to think aloud.”

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Edwards, Helen M., Mcdonald, Sharon and Young, S. Michelle (2010): Choosing field methods: a reflection on a RepGrid study. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2010. pp. 639-642.

“Usability researchers increasingly need to get into the field to study emerging technologies and new contexts of use. Success in such endeavors requires an appropriate toolbox of techniques, to use in specific settings and with a broad range of user groups. In this study a user group of elderly citizens considered what benefits mobile technologies could offer them. Two techniques (repertory grids and semi-structured interviews) were used. Reflection on the study has led to identification of a number of criteria to consider when choosing field methods.”

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Monahan, Kelly, Lahteenmaki, Mia, Mcdonald, Sharon and Cockton, Gilbert (2008): An Investigation into the use of Field Methods in the Design and Evaluation of Interactive Systems. In: Proceedings of the HCI08 Conference on People and Computers XXII 2008. pp. 99-108.

“This paper reports the results of an international web-based survey on the use of field studies in the design and evaluation of interactive systems, which was conducted between December 2006 and February 2007. The results suggest that the advantages and disadvantages of field methods are generally well understood, but guidance is needed in their application and use. Field studies were most frequently used for understanding context, and respondents preferred a more varied approach to method use rather than following a defined methodology such as Contextual Design. Observations were rated as the most effective technique overall, although interviews appeared to be more frequently used. Significant areas of further improvement for field methods were identified as improvements in data collection/analysis tools and improvements in adaptability of methods.”

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2007
 
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Mcdonald, Sharon and Edwards, Helen M. (2007): Who should test whom?. In Communications of the ACM, 50 (1) pp. 66-71.

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Mcdonald, Sharon, Monahan, Kelly and Cockton, Gilbert (2006): Modified contextual design as a field evaluation method. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2006. pp. 437-440.

“Downstream utility is a critical success factor for usability evaluation methods, in terms of the extent to which they can deliver value. In this paper we argue that field methods can significantly improve downstream utility through the added value they provide in terms of the range of usability problems they uncover and the contextual information they yield on user difficulties and their causal explanations. By way of an example we describe our experience of applying an adaptation of Rapid Contextual Design called Rapid Contextual Evaluation in a small scale field evaluation of a course administration system.”

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2004
 
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Mcdonald, Sharon and Tait, John (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval - 26th European Conference on IR Research - ECIR 2004 April 5-7, 2004, Sunderland, UK.

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Mcdonald, Sharon, Lai, Ting-Sheng and Tait, John (2001): Evaluating a content based image retrieval system. In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2001. pp. 232-240.

“Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) presents special challenges in terms of how image data is indexed, accessed, and how end systems are evaluated. This paper discusses the design of a CBIR system that uses global colour as the primary indexing key, and a user centered evaluation of the systems visual search tools. The results indicate that users are able to make use of a range of visual search tools, and that different tools are used at different points in the search process. The results also show that the provision of a structured navigation and browsing tool can support image retrieval, particularly in situations in which the user does not have a target image in mind. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for the design of visual search tools, and their implications for the use of user-centered evaluation for CBIR systems.”

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Mcdonald, Sharon and Stevenson, Rosemary J. (1998): Navigation in Hyperspace: An Evaluation of the Effects of Navigational Tools and Subject Matter Expertise on Browsing and Information Retrieval in Hypertext. In Interacting with Computers, 10 (2) pp. 129-142.

“This study examined the effectiveness of a map and a textual contents list on the navigation performance of subjects with and without prior knowledge of the text topic. After reading the text, subjects used the document to answer ten questions. The results showed that performance in the map condition was superior to that of the contents list condition, which in turn was superior to that of the hypertext only condition (no navigational aid). In addition, knowledgeable subjects performed better than non-knowledgeable subjects, except in the map condition where their performance was equivalent. The results also show that non-knowledgeable users tend to rely more heavily on navigational aids than knowledgeable users, and that aids were used primarily during browsing. These results are discussed in relation to the ways in which navigational aids interact with the prior knowledge of the user to enhance or impede performance.”

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Publication statistics

Pub. period:1998-2011
Pub. count:9
Number of co-authors:10



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Helen M. Edwards:2
Gilbert Cockton:2
John Tait:2

 

 

Productive colleagues

Sharon Mcdonald's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Gilbert Cockton:72
John Tait:14
Ting-Sheng Lai:3
 
 
 
May 20

“ The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry. ”

-- Lester Beall

 
 

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