Definitely helps Jerome. You, for one are not making the participant conscious of being watched. Secondly, it always helps to have the stakeholders sit with you ( in a different room: you can project it on the wall if you want ) and observe whats happening. Thats a big win actually. When devs, ba's and the product owners see how the participants perform, they need no convincing ( with some additional interpretation maybe ) on the usability issues at all.
You use the recorder on the participant machine. Observer is the one which you look at on your screen. Manager is used to do the tests analysis after the user testing sessions have been recorded by the observer+recorder.Manager helps you all the statistical data for the parameters you were evaluating the application/participant for. I wonder what the confusion is and if you're doing it right. How do you use observer and recorder both on the same laptop? Will you be staring at the participants screen from behind or sitting next to him then? How will you use the markers? Do you use just a notebook to write down the observations? How will you do the analysis from the manager if you don't have the markers? For the way you're doing it, you probably just need a screen recording software and pen+paper. Thanks and Regards | Manish Govind Pillewar | User Experience Designer Thoughtworks India Pvt. Ltd. | Bangalore-India |Tel. +91 9740073112 (M) +91 80 41113967 (Eve.) --- On Mon, 16/6/08, Jerome Ryckborst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jerome Ryckborst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Using Morae Recorder+Observer: Yes or no? > To: "IxDA Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, 16 June, 2008, 10:36 PM > I'd like to hear from people who have to conduct > usability sessions on their own, AND who use Morae Observer > on a second laptop. Does it make you more efficient? How > much more? > > After a recent stint analysing a ton of Recorder data, I > can affirm that I love Recorder but that I spend more time > than I should in Morae Manager, and maybe I need to use > Morae Observer together with Recorder so I can reduce time > spent in Manager. > > Any comments? Tips? Cautions? > > -=- Jerome > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
