Showing posts with label College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College. Show all posts

Wednesday 12 March 2008

Heuristic Evaluation of Website

During 3rd year of college, I had Human Computer Interaction as a subject. Simply we studied how people interact with computer's/computer applications, and how we can improve this interaction. Part of the subject was conducting a heuristic evaluation of a website. Unfortunatly for www.brooksvideo.com, I had to write up on them. Needless to say I pretty much slated the site (And got a good mark!). After this subject I still keep a keen eye on websites and think to myself, this is a nice site, or the case with the Ryanair.com site, wow did they actually pay somebody to develop this or was it Michael O'Leary's pet monkey! I'm currently developing a site myself, lets lets hope I don't shoot myself in the foot.


If you are studying HCI its worth looking up Jakob Nielsen. He's the main guru when it comes to this. So if your looking for an example of a heuristic evaluation, I have mine available to download as a PDF file.


Monday 28 January 2008

Prolog Text Based Adventure Game

I have uploaded my 3rd Year Knowledge Representation project. It's a text based adventure game designed in amzi prolog. The game is not mainstream and is for learning intentions only. It's a platform for learning a bit of Artifical Intelligence. This will be useful if your doing a project similar to this. You will need to download amzi to run and play the game.

Update: Link is now down, so here's the source code
And if you haven't guessed you need to take out the html br's. Don't know why they keep popping up!


The game and source can be downloaded here.
A walkthrough is also available.


For those people who are expected to be entertained rather than put to sleep, here's a picture I found in my inbox. (I finished my exams last week, so it cracks me up)