Hello; I am about to start teaching an undergraduate course in human computer interaction for the fall semester (about a week away now) and I will be asking my students to look at lyx. I have been using LaTeX for years and I've had a bit of experience with lyx. I'm interested in how well (new) users can work with lyx.
I joined the e-mail lists last week and I am impressed by the amount of traffic on both the user and development lists. What do I hope to come up with at the end of the semester? I expect that students will come up with some design alternatives for various aspects of the lyx interface. I would like these to be contributions to the lyx project. We are very interested in open source software development here at my university and if all goes well, we might even have a class in winter 2007, that could work at implementing these alternatives -- again, as a contribution to the project. In preparation for the class, I plan to post a separate questionnaire to the lyx-users and lyx-devel lists. All responses will be carefully reviewed. For those who are interested, I will also post details of the study that the students will conduct here, using participants from the participant pool that we have here. Basically, we will be recruiting people who self-report proficiency in either LaTeX or MS Word and then ask them to format a sample document using their preferred of those 2 tools and lyx. I welcome any comments about this. Again, my intent is to have this be a contribution to the lyx project. Best regards, Daryl -- Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D. Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22 University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745
