[452] in Athena User Interface
Re: Draft of online part of test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Sat Oct 14 19:22:51 2000
Message-Id: <200010142322.TAA22967@Press-Your-Luck.mit.edu>
To: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:22:47 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
> http://ma-jones.mit.edu/usability.html
Quite nifty!
> We have prepared a list of tasks for you to complete. Though you
> should try to complete all of the tasks listed, you are not limited
> to doing just those things. In fact, we actively encourage you to
> explore the system as you would the first time you would use it in
> real life. We also encourage you to customize anything you wish, at
> any time. As an incentive to do this, we can save these changes for
> you so you can use them in your real Athena account in the future.
At the first meeting, I thought we decided not to encourage open-ended
customization and exploration just yet? We do have directed
customizations on the task list, tho.
> Remember: this no a test of your Unix proficiency.
Typo: no -> not 8)
> Dress up your background screen. Put a picture in your background.
> Download a graphic from ?????
I've put some graphics in an accessible place. You can change this
section to something like:
Dress up your desktop by putting a picture in your background. Go to
/mit/aui/evaluation/testing/backgrounds and chose a graphic. Copy
your choice to your desktop. Set your background picture to this
copy.
> Start random obscure program X. [TBD. A game perhaps?]]
We decided on xcalc (a calculator program).
I presume the lack of fill-in boxes near the end of the survey is just
due to the fact that you haven't gotten that far along yet. 8)
I'm working on getting the menu system built.
-B.
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