Re: [Heartlogic-dev] getting closer - a few comments on UI

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:01 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> Okay the blue dotted line looks GREAT!!!  Much better than the "birds."

OK, good.

> Okay more comments...For your reference, here is the text.........
> 
> HAL believes that the following is true / false:
> 
> Spouses love each other.      N = 2, M = 0.50, SD = 0.00
> 
> You judged this statement as moderately believable
> 
> ...................Now here are my reactions.....
> 
> (1)
> 
> The...
> 
> "Thanks for your rating! Ratings like yours can help us evaluate and 
> improve our AI models."
> 
> ...just seems icky.  I can't suggest anything better.  Anyone have better 
> ideas.  People will get sick of it.  Maybe it should hotlink to a page
> on our research goals.  Whatever.  We can come back to fixing this later.

One thing we can do is change the text somewhat as a function of the
number of ratings per session.  So the first time someone visits the
page, they will get "Thanks for your rating! .. etc" and then second
time they will get something else.  Maybe after the third time, we won't
bother with any introductory/encouragement text to keep things clean and
simple.  Comments?

> (2)
> 
> Can you change ...
> 
> "HAL believes that the following is true / false:"
> 
> ...to ....
> 
> "HAL believes that the following"
> 
> ...IF the item is unreversed.  If the item is reversed, I am not sure
> what we should do and I am out of time.  Pick your own words or just
> have it say "mumblesnort" now (-; and that will be our clue to fix it.

This is a trivial change once there is reversed information in the
database.  So I'm leaving it broken as a reminder to get the database
loaded with items.

> (3)
> 
> Can you put this info, "N = 2, M = 0.50, SD = 0.00" below
> "You judged this statement as moderately believable."
> 
> Rather than phrase it as ......
> 
> "N = 2, M = 0.50, SD = 0.00"
> 
> .....can you instead phrase it as.....
> 
> "2 have rate this so far.  The average believability rating is 0.5 on
> a scale of -2 (highly unbelievable) to 2 (highly believable)."

Done.

> ...One more thing:
> 
> Can the "Nuetral" radio button have the same height and maybe even
> same width as the others?

Height is easy.  See if it looks good enough since width is tricky to
control.

> __DATA__
> RULENREV|Jesus loves his father because: (a) Sons love their fathers. and 
> (b) Jesus is God's so\
> n.
> RREN|Jesus loves his father not because: (a) Sons love their fathers. nor 
> (b) Jesus is God's so\
> n.
> UNREV|Jesus loves his father.
> GREV|Jesus does not love his father.
> UNREV|The city of Vienna, Austria is wet.
> GREV|The city of Vienna, Austria is not wet.
> |Rivers are a kind of water.
> |Rivers are not a kind of water.
> |If water touches x then x is wet.
> |If water touches x then x is not wet.
> |The river Danube is a river.

Instead of using a vertical bar, I suggest spreading it over multiple
lines like this:

RULENREV
Jesus loves his father because: (a) Sons love their fathers. and  (b)
Jesus is God's son.

RREN
Jesus loves his father not because: (a) Sons love their fathers. nor (b)
Jesus is God's son.

UNREV
Jesus loves his father.

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