Recent
The basic functionality of Gabbeh has been completed. To evaluate Gabbeh, an observational study of a simulated design task was conducted. The evaluation consisted of four simulated design exercises, each consisting of two
sessions. Three participants were involved in each exercise. Participants were divided
into groups of two: designers and one end-user. A design task was allocated for each
of the eight sessions. Designers were asked to perform the assigned task to first session
by using Denim and the task assigned to second session by using Gabbeh. The result of this evaluation is reported in our recent paper Investigating Annotation in Electronic Paper-
Prototypes which will be presented at DSVIS'05.
Research
I am a PhD candidate at the Sheffield Hallam University and working on an EPSRC funded project (GR/R87918) within the Communication and Computing Research Centre. My Research aims
to study prototyping methods and design representations applied
in development process of interactive systems.
The research will
examine the feasibility of creating an electronic prototyping
tool that can support useful and suitable design representations
for members of different stakeholder groups (Users, Software
Engineers and User Interface Designers) in a way that integrates
prototyping methods and techniques, such as paper prototyping,
electronic sketching and executable formal specifications.
Gabbeh is an extension to DENIM. The core innovation in Gabbeh is that it allows
different stakeholders to add arbitrary annotations in the form of comments either
when the model is being designed or when the model is being executed.
End users may execute Gabbeh using a separate limited functionality browser to review
a design. To make Gabbeh easier to be used by end-users, the design sheet is excluded
from the version of ‘run mode’, which is installed at end-users site. It allows
the end-users to work only with a simple browser with annotation features Based
on the result of the research.
A comment in Gabbeh can be
associated with any arbitrary number of design components, such as panels, labels,
texts and scribbles. Comments are given a background colour. This is intended to allow
development teams to distinguish between different types of comments, or perhaps
between comments from different speakers. The usage of comment is deliberately
left open.
Gabbeh allows end-users to view and add comments while they are reviewing the design
in ‘run mode’. This functionality is intended to allow end-users to give feedback
through the prototyping medium. Comments are displayed in a side window adjacent
to the page. Gabbeh displays the comments location within the page using coloured
numbers on the page
Publication
Naghsh A. M., Dearden A., Ozcan M. B. "Investigating Annotation in Electronic Paper-Prototypes." In the 12th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, July, 13–15, 2005.
Naghsh A. M. & Dearden A., "Supporting Collaboration in Electronic Paper Prototyping: A Workshop paper", In the ACM conferecne on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, USA, April 2-7, 2005.
Naghsh A. M. & Dearden A., "GABBEH - A Tool to Support Collaboration in Electronic Paper Prototyping: A Demostration", In the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, USA, November 6-10, 2004.
Naghsh A. M., "Towards Computer Supported Collaboration in Electronic Paper Prototyping", In the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Doctoral Consortium, Chicago, USA, November 6-10, 2004. Abstract
Naghsh, A. M., Ozcan M. B. "GABBEH - A TOOL FOR COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATION IN ELECTRONIC PAPER PROTOTYPING", In the 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 6-10 September 2004 Abstract
Dearden. A., Naghsh. A M., Ozcan. M. B., "Support for participation in electronic paper prototyping", In the 18th Participatory Design Conference 2004, University of Toronto, Canada,July 27-31, 2004, pp 105-108 .Abstract
Dearden, A., Siddiqi, J. & Naghsh, A. Using cognitive dimensions to compare prototyping techniques, Work in Progress paper at PPIG 2003 Abstract , Full Text
