Hi All, Most of you have heard of OpenVULab but we haven't been very visible so far in Fluid. But that is about to change as OpenVULab 0.1 is now uploaded into svn and available to download. A live working version is also available on a temporary server at http://VULab.silkwire.com. In the near future this will move over to http://VULab.yorku.ca.
You can create an account at the server as a researcher and another as a tester. Log in with the researcher account and create a project. A project consists of a pre and post session survey and a url for the site you want to test. Once you create the surveys and add a url you can assign your tester ID to that project. Log out and log in with your tester account. You should see your pre-session survey, and when you complete it, you are prompted to go to the site that is to be tested. When you navigate the site all interactions will be recorded, however the recording module is not yet completed. After you finish navigating the site you can return to the post-session survey. If you wish you can log in again as a researcher and view your survey results (and soon your recording). The user interface is still quite rough but we are working on it. At this point we invite your comments and suggestions on the interface as our goal is to make OpenVULab exemplary. Once we have version 1.0 released we will be seeking your input on features to be added in future releases. The Fluid wiki contains more information about OpenVULab and is available here: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Open+Virtual+Usability+Lab. Also see the description below for an overview. Ron Owston David Makalsky What is VULab? ============ VULab is tool designed for remote usability research. A unique feature of VULab is that it can record video and audio of remote users' interactions with their computer without the need to install an application on their computer. When users log into VULab they are presented with a series of pre-session questions set up by the researcher. After answering these questions, users are directed to the web site or application being studied and recording begins. Users then navigate the site according to protocols established by the researcher and they may be asked to talk aloud about why they are making particular choices. At the end of the session the recording is stopped and they are prompted to answer post-experience questions set up by the researcher. Users' pre- and post-session questions and videos are stored in a relational database on the VULab server that can be queried by the researcher and analyzed.
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