I'd like to have a feature for bookmarks on frames, so that those bookmarks are shown for a few seconds during video replay as a sort of "close captioning" or balloons.
The technique called "communicability evaluation" uses tags to annotate particular moments in the user test where specific types of interaction problems arise. These tags are stereotypical expressions such as "Where am I?", "Oops", "Where is it?", "Looks fine to me"... For an explanation see: http://www.id-book.com/casestudy_14-1_2.htm During the analysis phase, the tags can be used to infer the user's mental model during an action and thus helps finding which kind of redesign is more adequate. Some comments on previous subjects: 2009/12/18 Allan Caeg wrote: > The record tab is where everything is configured before the researcher and > participant start the session. I would call it 'prepare' instead of 'record' then, as the actual recording isn't performed in that tab. > What the observe tab does is to show what's > happening in the remote desktop and maybe the webcam feed. The view tab will > play the record(s) back. I suggest: Observe -> either 'Record' or 'Realtime' View -> 'Replay' Present -> maybe 'Report'? (because 'present' would conflict with my suggested 'replay') But do we really need separate 'observe' and 'view' tabs? Both could be integrated in a single panel using a VCR metaphor: 'Stop' and 'Record' states show the current webcam input, while 'Pause' and 'Play' show recorded video. > Maybe, we can add a wizard plus those hierarchical buttons. What > do you think? The advantage of tabs over a wizard is that you can process it in any arbitrary order, starting in the middle or going back to previously visited actions as the user . Wizards impose a penalty for going back, in that actions "in the future" might be discarded if something changes in a previous panel. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
