Presentation at CHI Sparks 2011.

1. Exploring the use of
Concept Mapping to
facilitate Interaction
Design Processes
Ilya Shmorgun

2. Interaction design in
the context of
software engineering

3. Lack of a transversal
technique to support
interaction design processes
through various stages

5. Is there a technique, which
can be used to support
interaction design processes
through various stages?

6. Supporting
• Elicitation
• Communication
• Representation
• Adaptation

7. Concept Mapping
• Applied in education, government and
business
• Easily understood by both school
children and researchers
• Presents information in a visual and
structured way
• Surfaces strengths and weaknesses of
ideas

8. Technique
• Easy to understand
• Flexible
• Adaptable to specific context
• Not limited by any particular field

9. Case Studies
• Several projects conducted over a
course of 8 months
• Designing various prototypes of mobile
applications

10. mTLU

11. The Problem

12. How to make studies
related information
available through a
mobile device?

13. Application Concept

14. Provide Studies
Related Information
through a Mobile
Application

15. Concept Maps

18. Drawbacks
• Concept maps do not easily scale
• A lot of nodes make a concept map
difficult to read

19. Future Developments

20. Explore whether concept mapping
can be used to provide similar
support to state transition diagrams
with the aim of representing an
application’s logic

21. ilya.shmorgun@gmail.co
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