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1
Assignment 1
  • SEG3120 User Interface Design
  • Video Tapped cooperative Interface Evaluation
  • Summer 2006

2
Assignment
  • Choose a software product to evaluate
  • You can use any software as long as
  • You are at least somewhat familiar with it.
  • You can find one or two subject users who are not
    expert
  • You can run the software in an experimental
    manner (i.e. not a nuclear power plant!)
  • It could be something you are working with,
    developing etc.
  • It must involve some data input as well as
    output (does not have to be a GUI)

3
Software Aspect
  • Choose an aspect of the software to focus on
  • Pick just a part of a system if it is complex.
  • The UI that implements one to three tasks that
    together can be done by an expert in about 20
    minutes.
  • Ideally you will work with a highly used or more
    complex part of a system
  • As the evaluators, you should become familiar
    with the part of the software you will evaluate
  • Do not forget to sign the Informed Consent Form
    Available on the course web site

4
Cooperative Evaluation
  • Perform a co-operative evaluation and malfunction
    analysis
  • Follow (in detail) the procedures outlined in
    module B
  • Remember to do a short dry run (pilot study) so
    you become comfortable with the procedures and
    A-V equipment. The dry run must use a different
    task from the main session.
  • Remember that co-operative evaluation requires
    both you and the subject user to verbalize.
  • Your subject(s) should not be someone intimately
    familiar with the software (i.e. not a designer)
    however the subject should know or be taught the
    basics of the system
  • Total videotaping time should be 20-30 minutes
  • Videotape the session (the TA will help with
    this if needed)
  • You can arrange to borrow cameras from A-V
    services, although if
  • you do your study with the TA, she can take care
    of this for several
  • groups at once.
  • Do not hand in the tape with your report, but
    keep it in case the professor wants to see it.
    Erase the tape once you get your mark.

5
Report
  • A description of the software being evaluated in
    sufficient detail so the marker
  • can understand the rest of the report (2 marks).
  • A summary of the procedures you used to do the
    evaluation (3 marks)
  • When, where and how did you set up the software
    to be evaluated?
  • What did you ask the subject to do?
  • What happened as the evaluation proceeded?
  • Here you should provide sufficient detail so the
    marker can see that you followed
  • good procedures and handled procedural problems
    well .This is not the protocol
  • (transcript)
  • A complete list of malfunctions that you found (1
    per line) (5 marks)
  • A discussion of the four most significant
    malfunctions (5 marks). For each
  • provide at least the following
  • An excerpt of the protocol
  • i.e. a verbatim transcript of 5-15 lines
    describing what the user did and said, what you
    said and
  • what happened (around the time the malfunction
    occurred)
  • You can embellish this with a picture
    illustrating the malfunction if this makes it
    clearer
  • The results of malfunction analysis
  • Brief recommendations for changes
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