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    New Summer!

    By Kyle J. Harms

    This week in the Looking Glass group we welcomed several new students who will be working with us for the summer. We gave everyone of the new students a beginning two week project. These projects...

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    User testing the remix + tutorial process

    By Kyle J. Harms

    For the past several weeks Shannon and I have been user testing Looking Glass at the St. Louis Science Center. We have updated Looking Glass to produce an automatically generated tutorial at the...

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    Almost ready for the summative evalution

    By Kyle J. Harms

    This week I've been preparing for the summative evaluation of the automatically generated tutorials which come after the remix process. I've very happy with how far these tutorials come in such a...

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    Running Code Tests on the Server

    By Kyle J. Harms

        This week I worked on integrating the back-end of Looking Glass code tests for mentors into the community. This has been not as straight forward as I had hoped, but only because...

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    Croquet Transactions and Steps

    By Kyle J. Harms

      I’m currently in the process of trying to write a paper about the automatic tutorial generation work that Shannon and I completed this summer. So far progress has been going fairly...

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    Automatically Generated Tutorials Preliminary Results

    By Kyle J. Harms

      I’ve just finished running participants through my automatically generated tutorials user study to test whether the tutorials improve information transfer with a similar task that was...

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    Gimme Feedback!

    By Kyle J. Harms

    I finished my CHI submission! Hooray! Thanks to all those who supported me. What's great about this paper is it got me thinking about one thing in particular that I think is pretty important....

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    Preparing for New Looking Glass Release

    By Kyle J. Harms

    After writing the CHI paper I'm still playing catch-up with getting the things I neglected during that time. We are working toward building a new Looking Glass release. For me this means getting...

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    Experimental Tutorial Checker

    By Kyle J. Harms

    I've continued my efforts to prepare for our release. I'm working with Dennis to make sure the experimental tutorial in the release has a reasonable chance of success. This has been a little more...

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    What's Currently Wrong with Our Tutorials

    By Kyle J. Harms

      This week I'm in the process of trying to trim down our tutorials into something that is more manageable and less over-whelming to our users. The basic assumption here is that our tutorials...