[902] in Athena User Interface
Re: compiled material from AUI tests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Wed Feb 20 20:12:52 2002
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:12:49 -0800 (PST)
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjonesus@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sbjones@MIT.EDU
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, sbjones@MIT.EDU
Cc: usability-team@MIT.EDU
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Hi Bill,
Good questions (I hate when people say that).
Here's what I think. I'm not sure that we need more
testers although I would have liked to have had a
token male in the mix.
The seven tester slots are left from the first round.
Since I wasn't and am still not sure if we will go on,
I left the spaces.
I regard what I've published for you as a preliminary
pass. I'd still like to think about what we saw and
compare results where possible to the initial round.
I believe that the times are faster and perhaps the
accuracy. That's what we need for the final report.
I'm a bit behind on this, but we have the data and I
just have to tear myself away from other deadlines to
do this.
I wil defer to you guys on whether we should go on
with testing.
What I really would like to see us do at this point is
to update Naomi's survey of just four years ago and do
the survey again. We are just one generation of
students later. It's a good time to do it.
I ran into Phil Long at medical this afternoon and
pushed this idea to him as I have to everyone I've met
since I discovered last week that it's been four
years. Doing the survey at this point might tell us a
lot more than continuing with more usability tests at
this point.
Bill, thanks for pointing out the meesy stuff. I'll
fix that.
Thanks,
Susan
--- Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Thanks muchly, Susan for the Usability follow-up
> work.
>
> I noticed that the table has room for 7 testers of
> which we've filled 4.
> Are you planning more tests, or are you considering
> this done. (I defer
> to you for judgement as to whether or not this
> number of testers is
> enough)
>
> Viewing the table in Netscape (mozilla actually) I
> noticed that empty
> cells had no borders. The usual way around this is
> to make sure there's
> at least "<br>" in an empty cell. If you used a gui
> tool to prepare the
> table, the authors of that tool need to be slapped.
> :-)
>
> QUESTION for sbjones and amb:
>
> Is our next step
> Get more testers.
> or
> Publish these results in the AUI notebook.
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