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  New Summer!

  By Kyle J. Harms

  This week in the Looking Glass group we welcomed several new students who will be working with us for the summer. We gave everyone of the new students a beginning two week project. These projects...

  • Jun 01, 2012
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  User testing the remix + tutorial process

  By Kyle J. Harms

  For the past several weeks Shannon and I have been user testing Looking Glass at the St. Louis Science Center. We have updated Looking Glass to produce an automatically generated tutorial at the...

  • Jul 12, 2012
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  Almost ready for the summative evalution

  By Kyle J. Harms

  This week I've been preparing for the summative evaluation of the automatically generated tutorials which come after the remix process. I've very happy with how far these tutorials come in such a...

  • Jul 19, 2012
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  Running Code Tests on the Server

  By Kyle J. Harms

      This week I worked on integrating the back-end of Looking Glass code tests for mentors into the community. This has been not as straight forward as I had hoped, but only because...

  • Jul 27, 2012
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  Croquet Transactions and Steps

  By Kyle J. Harms

    I’m currently in the process of trying to write a paper about the automatic tutorial generation work that Shannon and I completed this summer. So far progress has been going fairly...

  • Sep 05, 2012
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  Automatically Generated Tutorials Preliminary Results

  By Kyle J. Harms

    I’ve just finished running participants through my automatically generated tutorials user study to test whether the tutorials improve information transfer with a similar task that was...

  • Sep 13, 2012
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  Gimme Feedback!

  By Kyle J. Harms

  I finished my CHI submission! Hooray! Thanks to all those who supported me. What's great about this paper is it got me thinking about one thing in particular that I think is pretty important....

  • Sep 20, 2012
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  Preparing for New Looking Glass Release

  By Kyle J. Harms

  After writing the CHI paper I'm still playing catch-up with getting the things I neglected during that time. We are working toward building a new Looking Glass release. For me this means getting...

  • Sep 28, 2012
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  Experimental Tutorial Checker

  By Kyle J. Harms

  I've continued my efforts to prepare for our release. I'm working with Dennis to make sure the experimental tutorial in the release has a reasonable chance of success. This has been a little more...

  • Oct 04, 2012
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  What's Currently Wrong with Our Tutorials

  By Kyle J. Harms

    This week I'm in the process of trying to trim down our tutorials into something that is more manageable and less over-whelming to our users. The basic assumption here is that our tutorials...

  • Nov 01, 2012
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