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  How to Test Shortening the Tutorials

  By Kyle J. Harms

  Continuing my theme from last week I'm working to make our tutorials much more enjoyable and effective for our users. I decided that I should try and start figuring out how to test the questions I...

  • Nov 08, 2012
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  Maintaining attention during the tutorials

  By Kyle J. Harms

  This week I’m trying to figure out what type of study I can run which can improve the tutorials from the remix process. I’ve been looking into attention research as part of this...

  • Dec 06, 2012
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  Looking Glass Teleconference

  By Kyle J. Harms

  This week we met with a class in New Jersey about Looking Glass. I really enjoyed the teleconference because it made some of the problems with Looking Glass very real. One of the problems that came...

  • Jan 31, 2013
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  Improving the tutorial experience

  By Kyle J. Harms

  I've been working on testing the automatically generated tutorials at the science center. I've been testing whether if I remove some steps in the tutorial if it helps the user's experience. While I...

  • Feb 21, 2013
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  Adding message notes back into the tutorial

  By Kyle J. Harms

  This week I worked on coding up adding message notes back to the tutorial. I've made a lot of progress. I now am able to have complete steps that are just notes and no steps! However, there is a...

  • Feb 28, 2013
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