1 Summaries On this page you can post a link to an article and then write a summary of that article below your link. First, you need to make a reference to the article; state the author/s, title of the text and reference (journal name + date and possible link). When your link is in place, write your summary below the article.Please make sure that you do not highlight all the text on the page when you add new material. If you do, you will take away all the present content on the page! Should you accidentally erase something that you have not added yourself, please hit the undo button in the tool bar or go out of the edit mode and click on the 'history tab' to retreive the version before you erased all the content on the screen.
Steps for writing a summary:
Notice the title and subtitle; do these state the articles main idea?
Read the original quickly for meaning; then carefully read it again, underlining important ideas and making a few notes.
Determine the author’s thesis or main idea.
Find the main supporting points.
Write your topic sentence or thesis statement, stating the author’s thesis, title, source, and date of original.
In your own words, given the author’s most important supporting points, in the same order in which the author gives them. Keep the same proportion of coverage as the original.
Write out your full summary.
Revise, asking yourself, ”Will my summary convey to someone who has never read the original the author’s main idea and key supporting points?”
Compare your final draft with the original to avoid plagiarism.
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press the 'add link' button.
Observe that it may be a good idea to write the summary in a word-processor document first and then write it on the wiki, as web-editing always entails the slight chance of information going missing in the making.
In the article
In "Towards an account of intuitiveness", Turner (2008) discusses the concept of intuitiveness in HC1. The article addresses the situation that design guidelines and vendors claim that that a system needs to be intuitive to be usable, whereas the exact meaning of intuitive remains elusive. According to Turner, the term intuitive is used in many different ways within HCI, but there are two common groups: intuitiveness as familiarity and intuitiveness as embodiment. The origin of the discussion comes from a number of reviews of the new generation of games consoles. The author concludes that intuitive systems work because they make use of pre-existing action-perception routines and socially acquired ‘know-how’, since a number of disciplines now regard action and perception as a unit rather that two separate entities.
On this page you can post a link to an article and then write a summary of that article below your link. First, you need to make a reference to the article; state the author/s, title of the text and reference (journal name + date and possible link). When your link is in place, write your summary below the article.Please make sure that you do not highlight all the text on the page when you add new material. If you do, you will take away all the present content on the page! Should you accidentally erase something that you have not added yourself, please hit the undo button in the tool bar
Steps for writing a summary:
- Notice the title and subtitle; do these state the articles main idea?
- Read the original quickly for meaning; then carefully read it again, underlining important ideas and making a few notes.
- Determine the author’s thesis or main idea.
- Find the main supporting points.
- Write your topic sentence or thesis statement, stating the author’s thesis, title, source, and date of original.
- In your own words, given the author’s most important supporting points, in the same order in which the author gives them. Keep the same proportion of coverage as the original.
- Write out your full summary.
- Revise, asking yourself, ”Will my summary convey to someone who has never read the original the author’s main idea and key supporting points?”
Compare your final draft with the original to avoid plagiarism.To insert a link:
Observe that it may be a good idea to write the summary in a word-processor document first and then write it on the wiki, as web-editing always entails the slight chance of information going missing in the making.
Example summary with link:
Turner, P. (2008) Towards an account of intuitiveness, Behaviour & Information Technology 27(6), 475-482.
In the article
In "Towards an account of intuitiveness", Turner (2008) discusses the concept of intuitiveness in HC1. The article addresses the situation that design guidelines and vendors claim that that a system needs to be intuitive to be usable, whereas the exact meaning of intuitive remains elusive. According to Turner, the term intuitive is used in many different ways within HCI, but there are two common groups: intuitiveness as familiarity and intuitiveness as embodiment. The origin of the discussion comes from a number of reviews of the new generation of games consoles. The author concludes that intuitive systems work because they make use of pre-existing action-perception routines and socially acquired ‘know-how’, since a number of disciplines now regard action and perception as a unit rather that two separate entities.
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