Cool.
How does the tester's screen look like while the testing session is
running? Does it look like an ordinary computer screen or is there any
trace of Silverback?
Now, I think, an "observe" feature isn't needed. First of all, it would
be hard to implement. It's also hard to gather all stakeholders for them
to view testing sessions while it is running and if the tester finds
out, that would be awkward for him or her.
I have new features in mind. I saw a morae session once. On playback, it
highlights where the mouse is. Silverback also shows if the tester
clicks the mouse. That would be a cool feature to have.
We have to figure out how to control sessions, though. Without an
observe feature (where I think, we can control the running session), how
are we supposed to be able to pause and stop the session? Silverback
does it with an Apple remote. I think, it's best if we just settle with
something much simpler like having keyboard shortcuts for play, pause,
and stop?
Btw, let's just not call our testers "test subjects" like how Silverback
people call them. As a psych major, I was disturbed. Let's call them
"testers" or "participants" :D
On Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 10:15 AM, Leisa Reichelt wrote:
oh look, here's one they prepared earlier :)
http://www.vimeo.com/1393885?pg=embed&sec=1393885
<http://www.vimeo.com/1393885?pg=embed&sec=1393885>
it's a little bit salesy but gives you a good walk through of the UI
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2009/12/22 Allan Caeg <allanc...@gmail.com <mailto:allanc...@gmail.com>>
Hello Leisa!
Thanks for the input. I'll be happy to see a screencast of that
app. They may be a free trial, but I don't have a Mac to test it :)
Best Regards,
Allan
On Tuesday, 22 December, 2009 10:05 AM, Leisa Reichelt wrote:
hi guys
new to this list, so hope you don't mind me adding my 2c here -
just wanted to check that you've taken a look at
silverbackapp.com <http://silverbackapp.com> as a reference
interface for this project. It doesn't have an observer mode,
just runs usability test capture (screen capture + headshot) from
a Mac, but has a fairly nice, simple admin UI - worth a look and
I think you can get a 30 day trial for free. If not, sing out and
I'm happy to do a screencast of my installation.
hope that helps and good luck with this project - it's definitely
needed!
Leisa
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2009/12/22 Allan Caeg <allanc...@gmail.com
<mailto:allanc...@gmail.com>>
Maybe, on the welcome screen, we can just use something like
what I proposed earlier (
http://i.imagehost.org/0753/welcome.png ) then when the user
selects the project he wants, he'll see all the sessions there.
That would create less visual noise, because you wont see
every session from different projects on the welcome screen.
After all, if you have a session in mind, you know what
project contains it. :)
By the way, there's a GNOME 3 usability hackfest on feb
22-26. Ivanka is going to be there too. I think, this project
deserves some attention there. After all, they're talking
about Pongo there ;)
Allan
On Monday, 21 December, 2009 02:38 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
OK. I was thinking that we could always show individual
sessions and just group them under project headings.
Something like:
Recent Sessions:
* Project 1
- Session 1
- Session 2
- View All
* Project 2
- Session 1
- Session 2
- View All
* View All Projects
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Allan Caeg
<allanc...@gmail.com <mailto:allanc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Good question.. I was thinking that it's going to be one
project. A project is a group of related sessions. I
just don't know if that's technically feasible. If it's
not it's just going to be one session.
On Monday, 21 December, 2009 02:29 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
Yes.
I don't know much about usability testing, so is each
entry in "Recent Projects" a group of related sessions
or just one session (e.g. one user)?
Natan
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Allan Caeg
<allanc...@gmail.com <mailto:allanc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Like this one?
http://i.imagehost.org/0753/welcome.png :)
Got the idea from Brasero
http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/35029/screenshot_030_sw8XCE.png
On Monday, 21 December, 2009 05:14 AM, Natan Yellin
wrote:
Whoops, I hit the send button too soon. :)
What about an overview window with buttons like:
[View a past session] [Record a new session]
Clicking on [Record a new session] would open up a
window with some default settings. The user would
then click on a [Create Session] button afterwhich
the window would be the same as if it was opened
with [Record a new Session]
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Natan Yellin
<aan...@gmail.com <mailto:aan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
What about an overview window with buttons like:
[View a past session] [Record a new session]
After clicking on [Re
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM, James
Moschou <james.mosc...@gmail.com
<mailto:james.mosc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> What app did you use to make this mockup? :)
Gtk Builder/Glade
Also I agree that a wizard would not work.
I just didn't want a
prepare/setup tab that would become
useless once the recording has
started.
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