On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:19:03 +0100, Richard Show <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gena ... thanks for the interesting post, I do a lot of work in usability > and human-computer interaction research and am quite familiar with Jakob > Nielson, so thanks for the opportuntity to allow me to pontificate in a > boring academic manner :) ... Holy crap. Dr. Richard Show geeks out and uses word like pontificate that I have to look up. Oh and Mr. Jakob is Danish (or used to be), so it's "Nielsen", not "Nielson". :o) > 3) Most importantly, his criterion (operational definition) for "boring" > was > eyes moving throughout the page, but I think there's a pretty big > distance > between this operation and this construct ... seems like the better thing > would have been time-on-task or self-report of "boringness" I'm a big fan of talking to people myself. But I'm also a hippie who hangs out in the same building as the literature students. Some people seem to have a distinct distaste for qualiative studies... > ... the other intersting thing to me is that the "active - web" and > "passive > - TV" thing is going to blur more and more as the two devices television > and > computer monitor/keyboard start to merge and the web becomes a part of > all > these devices we have both active and passive video content on the web now. Webcasts of concerts have been around forever, Danish TV-2 is offering much of their broadcasting on-demand online and I'm sure American networks are doing the same. They're already as blurred as can be and that's great. We'll see both forms flourish online. Some videos will be used actively, some passives and I doubt they'll overlap much. Hence if you want your video used actively that will influence what you shoot, how you shoot it, how you edit and how you present it. Ditto for passive with the exception that it's much easier to produce. :o) > a) I must be a college professor, who teaches stuff like research > design, > or how could I possibly write stuff so boring Anyone who wants to bash Nielsen a bit is not boring in my book. :o) > b) As Sam Rayburn said "any damn mule can kick down a barn, but it takes > something to build one" (it's a lot easier to criticize research than do > it) I think all you need is some eye tracking software and 15 copies of the lastest Channel 4 news broadcast and the Human-Dog Christmas Special (for comparison). Or maybe not. - Andreas -- <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
