[862] in Athena User Interface
Re: More on MIT usability testing of GNOME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Mankoski)
Mon Sep 24 16:25:18 2001
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:26:03 -0700
From: Andrea Mankoski <andi@eng.sun.com>
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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On behalf of the Sun GNOME HCI Team, thank you very much for so
generously sharing your methods and results with GNOME usability testing
and deployment at MIT on the Athena Project. We can definitely learn a
lot from your efforts. I hope you will consider providing the source
code for some of your usability enhancements back to the whole GNOME
community.
All of us on the Sun team are curious about how you are faring. What
kinds of user concerns are you seeing now that your users have had a
couple of months to use the improved GNOME you deployed? Are you finding
that your usability enhancements were sufficient? Are there additional
changes you have made or would like to make? Now that the school year is
under way, are you hearing any comments from students who were users of
GNOME before they came to use the Athena Project's version?
We also wondered whether MIT offers any HCI courses or other training to
the Course 6 students (or any others.) You are the first group at MIT
that we are aware of conducting usability studies.
Again, on behalf of the Sun GNOME HCI Team, thanks for sharing your
work.
Yours Sincerely,
Andi
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Andrea Mankoski HCI Designer Sun Microsystems
andi@eng.sun.com Menlo Park, California USA
650-786-6514 Building 17, Room 1130
