Hi there, The community around Ubuntu in Aarhus, Denmark, has been invited to a technology conference in late August. The theme of the conference is user driven innovation and learning from your own mistakes. The audience at the conference will be both techies and non-techies, though mostly the non-techies. We have accepted the invitation and we will be at the conference two days.
Our aim at the conference is twofold. First, we would like to present Ubuntu to a wider audience. Second, we would like to show how users can take part in making Ubuntu better in order to fit into the bigger theme of user driven innovation. We have thought about ways to combine the two and have come up with the idea of doing usability testing of Natty Narwhal. Usability testing introduces people to Ubuntu and at the same time gives information on how to make Ubuntu better. Our point of departure is the usability test report from April on natty, the early test of Unity and the usability test of Thunderbird. We are thinking about doing short usability studies like "install X program", "post an update on Facebook" or "find Y file using a lens". The tests have to be shorter than the ones in aforementioned test because we can't keep the participants for too long. In order to make the results we get from the usability results as valid as possible we would like some input from on three issues. First, do any of you have programs or features that you would like us to test? If you do we would be happy to do so. Please keep in mind that the participants are non-techies. Second, what kind of background information should we get on the participants? I am thinking age, primary OS, experience using their OS, how many hours they spend using a computer every day etc. Third how should we conduct the test to ensure valid results? Would desktop recorder or observation do or should we try to get a camera on a tripod? Please let me know if you have ideas on what we could do or who we could contact. Thanks, Søren -- This message was sent from Launchpad by =?utf-8?q?S=C3=B8ren_Olesen?= (https://launchpad.net/~heldgaardolesen) using the "Contact this team" link on the Ayatana Discussion team page (https://launchpad.net/~ayatana). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
