This is mostly to Johanna, how far along are the tutorials? Are they playable enough that the usability testing team can start looking at them in-team? How long until we can "freeze" them for user testing?
I played the first two lessons and part of 3 a day or two ago on CDO. I have some notes and screenshots, but they'll have to wait. In general it seemed very good - piecing the tutorial into episodes worked extremely well, the maps are much much prettier and there's a lot more functionality in general. 2011/1/21 Johanna Ploog <[email protected]>: >> Also I'd like to mention that this testing, and also last years >> testing (including our project) are part of UKKOSS research project, >> of Mikko Rajanen from our department (Information Processing Science >> in the Oulu University). The project researches how usability >> expertise can be brought into open source projects. We did not mention >> this last year, because we were supposed to do kind of an >> "infiltration mission", where the target project did not know they >> were part of a larger research project, and try to see if/how this >> affected the outcome. > > Haha, so _we_ were being studied? How droll! > > Did you find out anything worth mentioning? Well, I guess the idea was, at some point, compare results between "infiltration" and "open" approaches. UKKOSS2 (a 2008 student project) did usability stuff for FreedroidRPG and had a more "open" approach in this sense. I have no idea if there is anything to gather from there. One thing was clear, DCSS was very receptive to this outside help. Part of that was probably that I was both in UKKOSS5 and DCSS teams. :) But I think in general DCSS is fairly open to contributions! (Not that FreedroidRPG wasn't.) UKKOSS5 also submitted code, maps etc, while UKKOSS2 "only" submitted reports. We had more resources (5 people vs 3) and I also already knew how the project and (to an extent) codebase worked. --Eino ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
