Re: state of the art

Hi guys,

I dunked this in the semweb wiki, and linked to your mail
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebUsability

best
Leo
It was Duane Degler who said at the right time 03.09.2008 08:47 the 
following words:
> Hi Paola,
>
> There is a lot of substance in the space, although those of us in the SWUI
> community have not yet made a concerted effort to collate (can I blame the
> intrusion of the 'day job'?). Lloyd and I in particular are open for
> volunteers to help with web collation activity - I have some initial designs
> for restructuring existing material into a more coherent reference...
>
> Here are some answers to your questions and some reference links, as they
> may help inform your workshop. I would suggest that notes/outcomes from your
> workshop are captured into the SWUI wiki, so our collective discussions are
> more easily connected. Alongside the wiki is also the SWUI workshop archive:
> http://swui.webscience.org/
>
> First, SWUI/usability may or may not be 'notional.' To meet the real needs
> of users with a formative technology, we have to consider the Process
> challenge as much - or more - than the interaction technology or
> 'guidelines' challenge. Core usability and interaction design processes are
> an important starting point, not yet well adopted in the relevant
> communities. Do we need to re-invent that wheel? Also, you might want to
> take a look at page 13 of "The Usability Imperative Inherent in the Semantic
> Web" (2004),
> http://www.designforcontext.com/publications/dd_usability-in-semweb_20040610
> .pdf. While now fairly old, a lot of the goals and questions remain relevant
> for consideration when measuring the state of the art.
>
> How do we understand and articulate people's goals and tasks in a way that
> helps us identify the unique capabilities of the medium to respond? The
> third SWUI workshop in 2006 was particularly rich in discussion of that
> question. Unfortunately, we don't have a recording of the panel discussion
> (a clear call-to-arms from Tim Berners-Lee, Nigel Shadbolt, Jim Hendler, and
> David Karger, as well as Wendy Hall), but we do have papers from that
> workshop focused on assessing usable design questions in particular.
> Battle, "Preliminary Analysis of Users and Tasks for the Semantic Web,"
> http://www.designforcontext.com/publications/lb_users_tasks_semantic_web.pdf
> schraefel and Karger, "The Pathetic Fallacy of RDF,"
> http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/Karger/Pathetic_Fallacy.html
> Heath, Domingue, Shabajee, "User Interaction and Uptake Challenges to
> Successfully Deploying Semantic Web Technologies,"
> http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/Heath/Heath.pdf
> Downey, "Designing Annotation Mechanisms with Users in Mind: A Paper
> Prototyping Case Study from the Scientific Environment for Ecological
> Knowledge (SEEK) Project,"
> http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/Downey/Downey.pdf 
> Wilson and schraefel, "mSpace: What do Numbers and Totals Mean in a Flexible
> Semantic Browser,"
> http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/papers/Wilson/Wilson.pdf
>
> It is important to learn 'bottom up' from examples that people create to
> solve real and perceived needs. I recently posted the slides for my annual
> 'guided tour' which has dozens of examples to explore for ideas and
> patterns:
> http://www.ipgems.com/present/swui_pres_2008.html
> In that presentation, I summarized one of the most significant outcomes from
> the CHI2008 workshop and poster, the "Vision of rich context: formal,
> social, personal, situational" (kudos to mc schraefel's position paper
> delivery that sparked this... thanks mc!).
> http://www.ipgems.com/present/swui_pres_2008.html#(11) (the 'state of the
> future art' perhaps?).
>
> The question we have asked for a few years is: "what problems might the sw
> solve that existing technologies and methods struggle to solve - what's
> unique?" The background paper supporting the CHI workshop (2008 in Florence)
> was based on extensive discussions during and after the 2007 workshop on
> just that question.
> (Lloyd - help - is this link broken? http://swui.webscience.org/challenges)
> also available in the ACM Digital Library:
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358628.1358959&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFI
> D=14117627&CFTOKEN=31407316.
> I suspect that this can provide the basis of a short write-up on key issues.
> I would also suggest the paper review criteria from the CHI workshop, which
> were crafted to guide people in the things we felt were important
> contributions:
> http://swui.webscience.org/SWUI2008CHI/#What
>
> One other useful reference is a mindmap that grew out of a conversation of
> the things we have to consider in the user interaction 'landscape' - and
> where we were beginning to see research initiatives even in 2004 and 2005
> workshops.
> http://www.ipgems.com/swui/swui_mindmap.html
>
> I'm sorry this isn't a collated or definitive collection. I hope it helps.
> There is important work to be done in:
> - direction for researchers
> - direction for practitioners
> - understanding goals and significant contributions
> - process awareness, both unique and adopted from existing practices
> - communication and collaboration
>
> Keep us posted on your workshop's progress and discussions!
>
> Duane
>
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-semweb-ui-request@w3.org 
>> [mailto:public-semweb-ui-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
>> paola.dimaio@gmail.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:00 AM
>> To: Dan Brickley
>> Cc: public-semweb-ui@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: state of the art
>>
>>
>> Hi Dan
>> thanks for reply
>> sorry the scope of my q is not obvious (tunnel vision from my end)
>>
>> Semantic Web Usability state of the art
>> Basically from what I see,  it is an  issue  - there is this 
>> list, there have been events like the recent workshop in 
>> Florence, people are paying attention to usability, but - 
>> correct me if I am wrong - it is still notional, in the sense 
>> that there are no 'guidelines' , and to some extent usability 
>> of semantic technologies is still not 'defined', nor there 
>> are methodologies to help developers face the challenges etc
>>
>> is it correct? can we say that the BOK in this domain is more 
>> or less what is on the wiki that Max is migrating to semantic wiki?
>> is there a write up anywhere that we can consider reasonably complete?
>>
>> I am asking all this, cause I am writing a paper for our 
>> forthcoming workshop, and would like to start with a 'state 
>> of the art' paragraph, and hoping to find something (that I 
>> can agree with) to point to as reference.
>>
>> Hope its reasonably unpacked question
>> cheers
>> P
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Dan Brickley 
>> <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> paola.dimaio@gmail.com wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Greetings all
>>>>
>>>> is the a a SWUI state of the art summary anywhere? (hoping I dont 
>>>> have to write it myself) :-)
>>>>         
>>> Can you describe what the art is that you'd like summarised?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> ps. I'd consider http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ pretty 
>>>       
>> SOTA w.r.t. 
>>     
>>> UI for RDFish data
>>>
>>>       
>>
>> --
>> Paola Di Maio
>> School of IT
>> www.mfu.ac.th
>> *********************************************
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
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