August 12, 2003

Round 2 User Study

User study happening this Friday and Saturday.
(Andy made a good suggestion... we should do a pilot of our user study hopefully Thursday?)
Don't go on unless you are definitely NOT doing our user study!

Two setups: Map table and laptop

Two tasks: Find the top news stories in ____ regions; Find balanced headlines about ____ new story from ______ region

Order of events: intro, tutorial of map table, task 1 on map table, task 2 on laptop, survey - or - intro, task 1 on laptop, tutorial of map table, task 2 on map table, survey

Metrics: how many sites visited, how many countries visited, no. of changes of control of input device (object, mouse, trackball, keyboard), no. of disagreements, "quality" of answer, how many regions they get through (for task 1)

Posted by Corina at August 12, 2003 04:07 PM
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