ES4: Basic Elements of Social Analysis

Suggested laboratories(3):

1. For a given application, have students design different interfaces for different social contexts.

2. Work through a case study in which the interest of the users and the customer are inconsistent, and the developers are caught in the middle.

3. Students are required to devise a quantitative hypothesis about one aspect of a particular interface in one or more specific social contexts. They will then be given empirical data on actual use to confirm or reject the hypothesis.