[453] in Athena User Interface
Re: Draft of online part of test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Sat Oct 14 19:25:49 2000
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:24:22 -0400
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@mit.edu
Thanks, I'll make the fixes on Monday.
Carry on. We're almost there.
Susan
At 7:22 PM -0400 10/14/00, Christopher D. Beland wrote:
>> 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.
>
>===============================================================
>Christopher Beland - http://web.mit.edu/beland/www/contact.html
>MIT STS/Course 6 (EECS) - MIT Athena User Interface Project
> http://www.votenader.org
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