[682] in Athena User Interface
Re: [Nautilus-list] Results of MIT usability testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Nickell)
Mon Feb 26 18:00:14 2001
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:00:16 -0800
From: Seth Nickell <snickell@stanford.edu>
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
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This is terrific, thanks very much!
"Christopher D. Beland" wrote:
>
> MIT Information Systems has finished documenting its formal usability
> testing on a graphical user interface based on Gnome 1.2, Nautilus
> PR2, and Linux-Athena 8.4 (http://web.mit.edu/is/athena/). The
> results are available for public perusal; see the below URLs to find
> the information you're most interested in.
>
> Developers and designers alike will probably be interested in our
> findings. Though all seven users preferred Gnome to the older
> Unix-based interface, some did experience problems completing certain
> common tasks. We've offered concrete suggestions on how the new user
> experience might be improved. The AUI project has since moved into
> delivery phase, and we are in the process of integrating Gnome with
> the Athena environment for our major summer 2001 release.
>
> Test results summary:
> http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/results/results1.html
>
> User-by-user issue tabulation:
> http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/results/analysis1.html
>
> Personal notes from one observer:
> http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/beland-usability-notes.txt
>
> The test questions as the users saw them:
> http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/test1.html
>
> Results of our menu item card-sorting exercise:
> http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/results/menus.html
>
> and for more general information:
>
> Athena User Interface Usability Testing homepage:
> http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/
>
> Athena User Interface Project home page:
> http://web.mit.edu/aui/notebook/
>
> Thanks, and we look forward to continued fruitful collaboration.
>
> Chris Beland
> on behalf of the AUI and Usability Teams
>
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