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 avoid

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

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 and on

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 a long talk on

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 has

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, and

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