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. We chose buttons for displaying the vocab words, as opposed to underlines, because this appeared to indicate the clickability affordance the best during user testing. Because some users had difficulty going back to previously viewed sentences during paper prototyping (where we initially displayed only one sentence at a time), we instead made it such that all previously fetched sentences would be displayed in a scrollable list. However, during computer testing, users complained about how once they had fetched a sentence, it wasn't possible to remove it from the list of displayed sentences, hence we introduced a Close button to remove it from the list. However, as users in our own independent testing during GR5 were confused as to whether closing a sentence simply removed it from immediate view or prevented it from ever being fetched again, and because the error of accidentally closing a sentence was not easily recoverable, then we introduced a "Closed Sentences" tab where closed sentences could be found and restored.
Sentence Contribution
The Sentence Contribution tab allows the user to enter a sentence, and once submitted, the contributed sentence can be viewed below (and deleted). The reason we have contributed sentences displayed below is that during our paper prototyping, where contributing a sentence was simply modal popup dialog, the users were unsure where the sentence they had contributed had gone, or how they could delete it from the database if they had accidentally typed the wrong thing.
Implementation
Our user interface runs in-browser using Silverlight, and is implemented using C#. It uses Silverlight's layout system to organize the widgets, and is therefore resizable.
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