Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (I don't think this says negative things about OLPC at all; children >> don't resist learning in this way.) > > Yet those Largo workers did somehow

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I don't think this says negative things about OLPC at all; children > don't resist learning in this way.) Yet those Largo workers did somehow avoid learning about files and folders when *they* were young, despite almost certa

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Please see section 2.1 of this paper for a nice review (with > citations) of the factors affecting older users. Most applicable > to this situation are lack of prior experience, reduction of > working memory capacity, decline in psychomotor and sensory > functioning with age,

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are we sure that we can generalize these observations to younger users? [...] > I am seeking an equivalent review of the user interface issues affecting > young users. Can anyone find one? Our feedback from younger users

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:46:56PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is just a brief note summarizing our experience at the > > > > http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest > > > > In short: > > > > * Scott gave

Re: Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is just a brief note summarizing our experience at the > > http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest > > In short: > > * Scott gave a long talk on his > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Experiments_with_unordered_paths

Trip Report: GNOME UI Hackfest

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
This is just a brief note summarizing our experience at the http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest In short: * Scott gave a long talk on his http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Experiments_with_unordered_paths and on his crazy journal ideas. * Michael gave a short talk on http://wiki