Re: [Usability] Usability study for GNOME on netbooks?

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Allan Day wrote:
> <snip>
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:53 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
>   
> > As many of you know, I'm interested in putting together a usability
> > study for GNOME on netbooks.
> >
> > I've gotten a few quotes from usability companies/contractors and I've
> > gotten some interest from advisory board member companies.
> >
> > However, I could use some help shaping up the study. I'm not a
> > usability expert, nor really a GNOME on netbook expert (just a user),
> > so I could use some help.
> >
> > Things left to do:
> >     
> </snip>
>
> <snip>
>   
> > - Figure out ways to keep costs low by involving volunteers, giving
> > things other than money to those that help (publicity, making all the
> > data public and accredited to the organization, ...)
> >     
> </snip>
>
> This is a good (and interesting) question to ask. In an ideal world,
> third-party usability testing would form one part of a more general
> usability effort which would make use of the resources that we already
> have available. I say ideal, because it's important to be realistic
> about what we can do.
>
> Off the top of my head, I can think of a number sources of data which
> could be combined in this more general effort:
>
>
> * Volunteer run usability testing, using something like Pongo [1].
>   
I had some loose idea about putting together a website where people 
could submit their videos that they did on their mother, friend, 
workmate, janitor or whatever (with permission from those of course). A 
bit like betterdesktop.org [1]
Would need some instructions and stuff to get people to get started, but 
it could be worth a shot.
I'll see if I can put something basic together during the weekend.

1. http://www.betterdesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Data

- Andreas