Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

[Allan Caeg <allancaeg gmail com>]

Cool. Great inputs. I agree.

I just don't know about merging observe and view because observe needs  
something like vnc. If it can work technically, though, that would be  
better to lessen the tabs/heirarchical buttons

Allan

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Diego Moya <turingt gmail com> wrote:

> 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.