[TYPO3-hci] closing down a usability project

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey Lene,

this looks really awesome. I really appreciate this work in terms of 
getting good, productive feedback on usability, this is usually very rare.

Thanks!
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greetings,
benni.
-SDG-

Lene Nielsen wrote:
> In August Rikke Ørngreen and I started a usability project and invited 
> team members from the hci mailinglist to participate. A handful of 
> people volunteered to begin a process of understanding who the end-users 
> were. Our aim was to be able to generate enough data to be able to 
> jointly create user descriptions or personas.
> Recently Rikke and I met with Kasper and we discussed the work done in 
> the group until now. (You can see the work on www.hci-cbs.dk/moodle if 
> you log in as guests). The group has contributed with data and we find 
> that there is valuable information on the Moodle site, only too little 
> of it. We know that you are all very busy which makes the data gathering 
> approach we until now have followed difficult.
> This made us decide upon a new approach. We have decided to close the 
> moodle site and instead a student of ours has volunteered to do 
> usability tests of the forthcoming prototype of ver. 4.5. From the work 
> on the Moodle site it will be possible to extract tasks and create test 
> scenarios for users to perform in the test. We hope to be able to 
> perform the same test in US and Germany. The results of the tests will 
> be published on the HCI mailinglist.
> Rikke and Lene
>