Re: [Usability] Re: [Epiphany] epiphany toolbar/bookmarks

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 01:08, reinout wrote:
> [sorry for the absent thread-refs]
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> 
> > With a topic based bookmark system, OTOH, you introduce an abstraction
> > level that *could* be not well received both by the newbie and the power
> > user, for very different reasons. This is my humble opinion and I'm
> > probably wrong, still with Epiphany going to be GNOME 2.4 default
> > browser better be sure ...
> 
> >> But talking with other people that try to watch real users seem to
> >> confirm this situation. I dont have money or time to do real user
> >> tests... so this sort of observations are the only data on what I can
> >> base my analysis.
> 
> Right, so we don't have the resources to conduct user tests. What we *can*
> do, however, is try to base ourselves on existing research! I did a little
> literature searching (praise be on Citeseer!) and found some papers that
> are more or less relevant to the issue at hand. I suggest we read them all
> before continuing the discussion...
> 
> (I haven't had the time to study them extensively so I'm not going to put 
> forward any of my own conclusions w.r.t. this issue yet.)
> 
> Here are the links:
> 
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/boardman01category.html
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/mckenzie01empirical.html
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/559229.html
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/296052.html
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/alvarado03surviving.html
> 
> Enjoy the read =)

Another one that I found quite interesting:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/abrams98information.html

Marco