[900] in Athena User Interface
compiled material from AUI tests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Tue Feb 19 16:12:30 2002
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From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
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I've finally compiled the test data to date. As you'll see, everyone
did fairly well. the freshman had a harder time than her
upperclassmates. Pay attention to their comments on the survey
results in http://ma-jones.mit.edu/AUI/reusedanalysis.html . See
also http://ma-jones.mit.edu/AUI/reusableresults.html .
What I think we saw was an interesting combination of using the gui
and the command line. No one used all commands or all gui.
The foot menu seems to have a couple of problems. First of all,
there may jst be TOO much stuff without enough help about what one
should choose. For instance, choosing an appropriate CD player
wasn't particularly easy. Testers confided that they weren't always
aware which kind of hardware they were using. They were using Athena
-- enough. I'm not sure I have a solution.
Calculators. Where would you look for a calculator? Same place the
testers did when they looked under the foot. In Utilities. But
where did they find it? In Mathematics. It may be good to have
calculators in Mathematics, but you should be able to find them in
Utilities as well.
I am happy to report that I do not think anyone will miss mH or XmH,
at least from our sample.
We probably should test some more, although I'm not sure we'd see
anything much different.
Susan
