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Lecture 4:
Tools for learning and living
Tool for Learning, because this application informs users how much their environmental impact is.
Tool for Living, becoming more conscious and changing your environmental impact. Like walking, biking and taking the bus more places. Make the user feel more connected to the environment, and compares them to other locals making them more competitive in their impact effort.
21st century skills: what do human need to learn to successfully take advantage of tools and external resources
Lecture 5:
HFA: High Functioning Applications
Have a large number of features
People do only know a small subset of the existing features
Problems with High Functioning Applications
Users don’t know about tools
Users don’t know how to access tools
Users don’t know how to use tools
Challenging research problems
Identify user goals from low level interactions
Domain oriented tools
The technological expertise of the computer scientists making these systems must be matched or exceeded by their knowledge of people and their capabilities
Lecture 6:
Approach to Energy involving HCC
Providing Supportive Social Environments
Automated Systems
Providing Information
Helping people make sense of their energy consumption
Lecture 7:
Design Domans: Software Design and Software Engineering
