Re: [IxDA Discuss] How can I measure perception and adoptability?

2008-01-14 Thread Benjamin Ho
Oliver, It sounds like you need more experience in usability testing. You'll get a better feel when you do structured tests and free-form tests. I find that structured tests give both facets, learnability and perception. It's all in the user actions. Observe how they use it given a certain tas

Re: [IxDA Discuss] How can I measure perception and adoptability?

2008-01-11 Thread Phil Chung
Oliver, By "adoptability" I assume you mean how easy it is to learn or transfer existing knowledge to the use of it. That is, how "intuitive" is the system. How about a controlled study to see how quickly users learn to use it or field studies with a prototype to see how easily users can adopt

[IxDA Discuss] How can I measure perception and adoptability?

2008-01-11 Thread oliver green
Hi All, I had asked this question a while back and received some interesting comments - I was wondering if other people had more input? As a graduate student in Human Computer Interaction, I have been taught multiple techniques of traditional usability testing e.g. heuristic evaluations, controll