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  • Kyle J. Harms

    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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...