CS295J/Literature to read for class 5

• Project ernestine: validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world task performance

A study in which the GOMS method is used to correctly predict the performance of call center operators using a new workstation. Might be interesting because of the methodology used to decompose the task into basic cognitive and perceptual actions, and then measuring these actions to evaluate the new interface. (Eric)

• Neo-symbiosis: A Conceptual Tool for System Design Griffith-NSD-2007

This paper talks about "neo-symbiosis". This is effectively the idea I have been pushing: Dividing cognitive tasks amongst humans and computers based on the type of cognitive operations involved. (Owner - Gideon)

• Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation (InfoVis 2008)

Work by Jeff Heer of Stanford (formerly Berkley) on using Graphical Interaction Histories within the Tableau InfoVis application. This is a great recent example of "workflow analysis" that we've been discussing in class. Though geared toward two-dimensional visualizations with clearly defined events, his work offers some very useful design guidelines for working with interaction histories, including evaluations from the deployment of his techniques within Tableau.