[Sumover-tech] Usability issues with "vic"

[Piers O'Hanlon]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your suggestions. Just to let you know the SUMOVER project
finished last year but we have new project (called AVATS) with
Manchester University. The new project is focussed more on stability
then new features etc but minor changes are fine as long as stability
and usability are enhanced.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/avats/

I think the additional menu items are quite doable as is updating the
help info - I think you're right there's not enough info made
available on some of the 'hidden' features.

The ordering of the video thumbnails has been mentioned before - I
think we could at least sort things out so they the existing
thumbnails are reordered if other sites disappear. I'll look at adding
a scrollbar.  In the newer version of vic the local video is in a
different shade of grey - it may be a good idea to keep the sending
video window separate.

Thanks for the input - feel free to make any suggestions (and patches).

Cheers,

Piers.

> To further my comments I wrote previously, I have tried a latest SVN
> snapshot version of "vic" and I like the "right click for context menu" to
> select a video size.  I think this is great!
>
>
>
> I am wondering if it could be possible to expand upon this and implement a
> "nested menu" option. Therefore, when you right click on the video stream,
> you may have a couple of menu options such as (names not important, just the
> concept):
>
>
>
> ·         Video Size
>
> o    QFIC
>
> o    CIF
>
> o    SCIF
>
> o    1/16 NTCS
>
> o    1/4 NTCS
>
> o    NTCS
>
> o    1/16 PAL
>
> o    1/4 PAL
>
> o    PAL
>
> ·         Other options
>
> o    Scroll Video Streams (shortcut being "<")
>
> o    Panorama View (shortcut being "x")
>
>
>
> Another option I really liked on a older version of open mash, was the way
> you could set the video stream to cycle through video streams every 5 or so
> seconds…  This is a great feature if you have limited screen real-estate and
> simply wanted to keep an eye on things.  If this is still possible, it would
> be nice to have this as a menu option as well.
>
>
>
> Additionally, it would be nice if you could implement a "right click for
> context menu" option on the video stream thumbnail screen.  This would allow
> users to select tile arrangement and other nice things.
>
>
>
> Anyway, as you can see from my suggestions, most of the things that I have
> suggested, are already possible to do it "vic".  It is simply making the
> interface more user-friendly and simpler to use.
>
>
>
> Does this at all sound feasible and possible???
>
>
>
> I hope again that this is the appropriate forum to discuss these ideas.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Jason.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Douglas Kosovic [mailto:douglask at itee.uq.edu.au]
>  Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:28 PM
>  To: sumover-tech
>  Subject: Re: [Sumover-tech] Usability issues with "vic"
>
>
>
> Hi Jason,
>
>
>
> > 1.       The issue for me here is that I wouldn't like to clutter up the
>
> > video streams with addition menu options, like an old version of the
>
> > openmash version of vic, but it would be useful if a user could somehow
>
> > have a menu option (or whatever) that allows them to resize, or other
>
> > vic "shortcut" key options... (How many people know that by hitting the
>
> > "<" button on a video stream, they can scroll through the video streams)
>
>
>
> Perhaps the Help dialog box should be updated with info on the keyboard
>
> shortcuts, etc. The current VIC SVN version now has a right mouse button
>
> context menu (which is the same video size menu as found in the video
>
> window menu bar from older UCL VICs).
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug
>
>
>
>
>
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