THE UHLE COLLECTIONS @ BERKELEY Presented by Shelby, Kelly, Cecilia May 5th, 2005 SIMS 213
THE UHLE COLLECTIONS @ BERKELEY Presented by Shelby, Kelly, Cecilia May 5th, 2005 SIMS 213
Motivation & Project Goal Motivation of the Project Uhle Collections at The Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley Allow researchers to view items in the collection without accessing the physical objects.
Motivation & Project Goal Goals of the Project To create a research tool which represents the relationship between artifacts and their metadata in a way that is useful to archaeologists. To provide a front-end to a digital collection.
Heuristic Evaluation Total Entries by PhotoCat: 32 Opening up the new window Help Link The expanding lists of metadata items Map browser
Pilot Study Goal To see if our system supports:
different levels of archaeology knowledge
different levels of computer experience
Pilot Study Test subjects Male Professor of Architecture w/ interest in ancient civilization
Female undergraduate student in Anthropology
Male PhD student in Anthropology Tasks Find jars with sooting on them
Find how many artifacts there are in Chincha, Site E, Grave 13
Print a list of ceramic vessels w/o the thumbnail view
Pilot Study Test Measures Time
Navigation Errors
Preference of Search Results Users were exploratory
Rarely made errors
Check box navigation
Pilot Study Qualitative vs. Quantitative Opening checkboxes causes too much scrolling
Preference of Map location
Help icon
Dream to Reality p1: p2: current prototype:
Dream to Reality p1 and p2 : current prototype:
Dream to Reality p1: p2:
Dream to Reality p1 p2
Demo
Lessons Learned Time not a good measure for success of browsing interface
Tasks may be too shallow
Need a working database
Next Iteration Graphic design
Map interface
Connecting to database
Future Work Map testing
Checkbox testing
Data massaging
Linking to other Uhle-related materials
Questions? Any Questions?
Any Comments?
Any Thoughts?
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