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SUMMARY:Sketching Language – User-Centred Design of a Wizard of Oz Proto
 typing Tool - Stephan Schlögl
DTSTART:20101104T141500Z
DTEND:20101104T151500Z
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CONTACT:Lech Swirski
DESCRIPTION:Language Technology (LT) based applications become more popula
 r as technology improves. Prototyping early in the design process is criti
 cal for the development of high quality applications. It is difficult\, ho
 wever\, to do low-fidelity prototyping (e.g. paper prototyping) of applica
 tions based on LT. One technique that has been used for this kind of proto
 typing is Wizard of Oz (WOZ). An effective interface to support the task o
 f the wizard is\, however\, crucial. While several wizard interfaces have 
 been built to date\, most of them were designed for specific experiments. 
 The more general issue of supporting the sometimes highly demanding cognit
 ive task of the wizard has remained largely unexplored. In my talk I want 
 to report on work in progress that explores the wizard task and aims at de
 fining a generic wizard user interface layout that can be used in differen
 t experimental settings using different Language Technology Components. I 
 will talk about a first WOZ experiment in which different wizards were obs
 erved and their behaviour was analysed. Finally I will show how the result
 s of this experiment were combined with sketching in order to identify hig
 h-level concepts for a future generic wizard interface.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room SS03
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