RE: Validation methodologies

One of the techniques we dreamt up at Argus.

Mags
 --- PeterV <[email protected]> wrote: > Very clever!
How did you come up with that?
> Peter
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> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Margaret Hanley [mailto:[email protected]] 
> >  Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:55 AM
> >  To: [email protected]
> >  Subject: RE: [facetedclassification] Validation
> methodologies
> >  
> >  
> >  All,
> >  It worked in the same way that you would normally play
> 20 
> >  questions as kids.
> >  
> >  The user tries to guess what the item is, by asking
> about 
> >  aspects or facets of the object.  The faciliator can
> only 
> >  answer yes or no. Once the user gets to 20 questions
> they 
> >  must guess what it is. If the user knows the answer
> before 
> >  the 20 questions are up they can guess.
> >  
> >  It's not important that the user guesses correctly or 
> >  incorrectly, the most important information to extract
> are 
> >  the facets.
> >  
> >  For the microscopy example, lots of people started
> asking
> >  if it was animal, mineral or vegetable (they got into
> the
> >  swing very quickly) and also wanted to know if it was
> >  cellular or non-cellular. For web sites, the first
> question
> >  was nearly always if it was a e-commerce site and what
> it
> >  was about.
> >  
> >  So for the microscopy example the some of the facets
> we
> >  came up with were:
> >  * Species
> >  * Type of electron microscope
> >  * The magnification of the microscope
> >  * The biological process being demonstrated
> >  * Part of the organism or cell being shown
> >  * The method for taking the image
> >  
> >  It is really fun to do. The only thing that struck us
> as we 
> >  were doing the facilitation that you really needed to
> know 
> >  your subject matter. My co-facilitator last studied
> biology 
> >  in secondary school and my science degree was over 10
> years 
> >  ago. It made us realise how much we DIDN'T know. :)
> >  
> >  
> >  Mags
> >   --- PeterV <[email protected]> wrote: > 
> >  > >  I have previously used "20 questions" as a way to
> >  > generate
> >  > >  facets from a domain. In particular to understand
> what
> >  > 
> >  > >  elements of a picture (in the case of microscopy
> >  > images) or
> >  > >  web sites (in the case of a web directory) are
> the
> >  > users
> >  > >  interested in seeing, searching or browsing by to
> find
> >  > that object.
> >  > 
> >  > Hi Mags,
> >  > How does that method work? I would love to hear
> >  > details...
> >  > Peter
> >  > 
> >  > 
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