My supervisor advised me to contact SINTEF regarding their research project called RECORD. It was plausible that my research correlated with that of the RECORD project. I attended a meeting with the project’s coordinator Asbjørn Følstad on Thursday the 11th of October where we discussed possible ways of cooperating. The RECORD Project
Shortly summarized this project have three different themes:
- Usagepatterns (mainly with regard to audio-visual systems).
- Design of navigation (again mostly for audio-visual systems) and design of web communities. How can we design such communities so that become self sufficient (with a focus on not only the technical sides)?
- Evaluation by leveraging a community of test users for giving feedback on various prototypical work. One tries to find a golden path between throughout upfront planning and “launch and learn”.
SINTEF have mobilized 3000 users which can be used for survey purposes. A handful of these can be taken in for usability testing in labs.
One of SINTEF’s collaboration partners in the RECORD project is the Urørt service of the National Broadcasting Corporation. After talking to Morten Skogly of Urø it was agreed that I should develop a transparent prototype on top of their service as part of my research. Technically this prototype would be realized by using the Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox and transparently adding a layer of navigational structures on top of the existing service.
Some time during November or December (after I’ve concluded my initial studies) it’s quite possible that me and Asbjørn from SINTEF visit the Urørt team in Trondheim to discuss this project more closely.