From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 6 12:28:56 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:28:56 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Image Tool demos today at 2:00 in N42 Demo Center Message-ID: <1128616136.27963.45.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Today we'll see demos of two MIT academic projects, M:media and StudioMIT at 2:00 in the N42 Demo Center. Other upcoming image tool demos (also to be held in the N42 Demo Center): Tue Oct 11, 11:00 - Stellar Image Tool prototype (Ben Brophy) Thu Oct 27, 3:00 - Visualizing Cultures repositories and tools (Jeff Merriman) ****If you want to receive future announcements and discussions about image collection management tools and image repositories events, demos, and conferences please add yourself to the email list image- tools at mit.edu by signing up at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/image-tools. (The list is moderated, filters spam, and should be low volume.)**** (Apologies if you've received more than one copy of this email. I've cc'd several lists in order to get the invitation out for the image-tools list. From now on image-tools at mit.edu will be the only recipient of these announcments.) -jean- -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Academic Computing Communications Coordinator MIT Information Services and Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 N42-250K, jfoster at mit.edu, 617.253.3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Tue Oct 11 09:51:48 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:51:48 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Stellar Image Tool Message-ID: <1129038708.28798.24.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Hello, Just a reminder that this morning at 11:00 in the N42 Demo Center, Ben Brophy from AMPS will be demoing the prototype for the Stellar Image Tool. The tool, planned for pilot release in fall 2006, will allow Stellar users to search image repositories for images to support classwork. The development is a joint effort with Carl Jones from the MIT Libraries and Ben Brophy working collaborating. One resource accessible through the tool will be images from the Rotch Visual Collection which will be stored in a Dspace repository using Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) repository OSIDS. The next upcoming demo is: Thu Oct 27, 3:00 - Visualizing Cultures repositories and tools (Jeff Merriman) Hope you can make it. -jean- -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Academic Computing Communications Coordinator MIT Information Services and Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 N42-250K, jfoster at mit.edu, 617.253.3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 17 12:16:50 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:16:50 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] MCN conference in Boston Message-ID: <1129565811.10424.107.camel@arizona.mit.edu> FYI: Sheryl Brittig sent me a notice about the Museum Computer Network conference which will be in Boston in Nov. Thought I would pass it along to you. There are sessions on metadata and other standards for collaborating with other organizations in sharing digital images/metadata in repositories. http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005index.htm -jean- -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Academic Computing Communications Coordinator MIT Information Services and Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 N42-250K, jfoster at mit.edu, 617.253.3909 From benbr at MIT.EDU Tue Oct 18 15:26:52 2005 From: benbr at MIT.EDU (Ben Brophy) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:26:52 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Stellar Images presentation Message-ID: Hello, I really enjoyed the conversation at the Stellar Images presentation last Tuesday. Thank you, Jean for organizing the series. The next day my colleague Mark Brown and I met with some developers at UC Berkeley who are also starting work on another image presentation tool - it's really an exciting area to work right now. Here are some points I heard: * In the gather images view, when getting results form the search results from the repository, there needs to be an option to view just the thumbnails as in a lightbox, in addition to the current image + details view. * Including Flickr * Including 'folksonomic' tagging * Including video as well as still images (open-video.org was referenced as an example) * Letting people add their own images and video * Searching by image resolution * Boolean searches All of this is added to our notes so we can use them in developing the requirements for future development. Was there something you wanted to add? Let me know. Here is the web address where you can find the working draft of the functional specifications, and the mockups I demonstrated in class. http://web.mit.edu/benbr/Public/stellar-images/image-scope.html All the best, Ben From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Oct 20 08:24:57 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:24:57 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Fwd: [HCI Seminar] TALK: Tamara Adlin, Tuesday, 10/25, 11:00AM References: Message-ID: <64797496-8775-4F42-B876-2E822E42DB91@mit.edu> For those of you who have been involved in developing personas as part of development or requirements work or would like to learn more about them, I thought I would pass this announcement along. Feel free to forward to other lists as appropriate. -jean- Begin forwarded message: > From: Jaime Teevan > Date: October 19, 2005 4:50:28 PM EDT > To: hci-seminar at csail.mit.edu > Cc: seminars at csail.mit.edu > Subject: [HCI Seminar] TALK: Tamara Adlin, Tuesday, 10/25, 11:00AM > > > ****************** H C I S E M I N A R S E R I E S > ****************** > ****************** 10/25 1:30PM Patil (32-G449) > ****************** > > ** NOTE: Unusual day and time ** > > The Persona Lifecycle: Integrating User Representations into Every > Stage of Product Design > > Tamara Adlin > Adlin, Inc. > > ** Tuesday, October 25, 2005 > ** 11:00AM (refreshments at 10:45AM) > Patil Seminar Room (32-G449) > > Abstract: > > Whether you call them user archetypes, profiles, target customer > characterizations, or personas, creating detailed representations > of users to aid in the product design process is generating renewed > interest. Yet even though the buzz around personas just keeps > increasing, it?s hard to find specific, how-to information for > creating and employing personas. > > There's a good reason for the buzz: personas can be a powerful > device for integrating user-centered design methods into your > development cycle, radically improving communication and user focus > within your organization, and subsequently improving users? > experiences with your products and services. For the past 4 years, > Tamara and her co-author John Pruitt (Microsoft) have been working > with persona practitioners from all over the world to understand > how personas are being used today, which persona-related methods > are most helpful, and why so many persona efforts fail. > > The result is a highly practical Persona Lifecycle framework that > defines five phases of persona development, use, and measures of > ROI. Tamara will introduce you to the Persona Lifecycle, discuss a > range of tools for creating personas, and reference a variety of > examples illustrating how they can be employed. > > Bio: > > Tamara Adlin is the founder and president of Adlin, Inc., (http:// > www.adlininc.com/) a customer experience consulting company located > in Seattle, WA. Prior to forming her company, Tamara created the > Customer Experience services team for Amazon Services, which > provided complete customer research and site design services for > Amazon?s platform clients (including the official NBA online store, > Marks & Spencers, Sears Canada, and others). Previously, she was > the Senior Usability Specialist for Amazon.com (amazon.com), where > she consulted with teams across the company to improve the user > experience for Amazon.com customers, sellers, partners, and support > professionals. Before she came to Amazon, Tamara was the Human- > Centered Design Lead at Attenex Corporation (http:// > www.attenex.com/), a legal services software company in Seattle, > where she designed advanced document management interfaces. In > previous positions, Tamara was the team leader for the Human- > Centered Design Team at Akamai Technologies' Seattle office, > INTERVU, Netpodium Corporation, and MetaBridge, where she designed > interfaces for a variety of web applications and the award-winning > Netpodium Interactive Broadcasting Toolset. Tamara started her > user experience career as an Engineering Psychologist at the Army > Research Laboratory, where she evaluated human factors issues > associated with military systems. > > Tamara has been invited to speak on personas and other customer- > centered design methods at a variety of industry and academic > events. Tamara is co-author of a book on personas with John Pruitt > (Microsoft). The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind > Throughout Product Design (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/ > detail/-/0125662513/qid=1127424904/sr= > 8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-1609560-7389440? > v=glance&s=books&n=507846), is in pre-publication with > Morgan Kaufmann Publishers and will be available late autumn 2005. > The book includes four invited chapters from other experts in user- > centered design and over a hundred sidebars written by 60+ > colleagues who have used personas in their work. In 2003 and 2004, > Tamara and John?s two-day seminar for the Nielsen/Norman Group > received the highest ratings from participants at their User > Experience Conference (http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/). > > Tamara holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.S. degree in > Technical Communication from the University of Washington, where > she focused on User Interface design techniques and > interdisciplinary communication. > > ****************** H C I S E M I N A R S E R I E S > ****************** > ****************** http://www.csail.mit.edu/events > ******************_______________________________________________ > HCI-Seminar mailing list > HCI-Seminar at lists.csail.mit.edu > https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/hci-seminar > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/image-tools/attachments/20051020/5c79ef7c/attachment.htm From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Oct 24 09:23:41 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:23:41 -0400 Subject: [Image-tools] Image Tools Demo Thu, Oct 27 @ 3:00 in N42 Demo Center Message-ID: Hello, For our third image tools demo Jeff Merriman, Peter Wilkins, and Scott Shunk will be showing us the digital image content repositories and end user pedagogical applications being developed for and used by the Visualizing Cultures program[1]. The demonstration will include the Visualizing Cultures Image Database (VCID) web application[2], and will also illustrate how the VC image content can be consumed by other software tools, including SearchParty, an application from Apple Education Marketing[3], and Tufts University's Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)[4][5]. [1] http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/ [2] http://oki1.mit.edu:8080/narravision-web/ [3] http://www.maclearningenvironments.org/portal (note that this site runs Sakai.) [4] http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/ [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuftsvue/ Join us in the N42 Demo Center on Thursday at 3:00 for this presentation. -jean- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jean L. Foster Usability Consultant/ Communications Coordinator, Academic Computing MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T) Room N42-040F Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.3909 jfoster at mit.edu, AIM:jfostermit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/image-tools/attachments/20051024/6188c5ba/attachment.htm