[457] in Athena User Interface
Re: results from informal usability testing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Oct 16 09:58:40 2000
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:58:36 -0400
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>, aui@mit.edu, kcahill@mit.edu
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Morning Bealand,
I've made some changes to the test page. The form isn't quite coded in the
back, but you get the idea.
Susan
At 7:32 PM -0400 10/14/2000, Christopher D. Beland wrote:
>A while back, Bill said:
>
>> I think we need to DEFINITELY put the following task onto the AUI
>> usability testing:
>>
>> Run a UNIX command
>
>I agree.
>
>I recommend the following:
>
>
> Check the weather outside by running the following at the command
> line:
>
> athena% add -f weather
> athena% weather bos -o
>
>I don't know weather it's appropriate to drop the hint "start a new
>xterm if necessary" because I think part of the motivation for doing
>this is to determine how hard it is to make the connection between the
>athena% prompt and the phrase "command line" and the "xterm"
>program, etc.
>
>-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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