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Usability Engineering / Käytettävyystekniikat	
 
EXERCISES 7/Week 18
 

18: X task
  
 Preparing and Conducting Usability Testing
 
 Individually or in group of two (no more), develop a test plan. Read the rest
 of this task carefully.
 
 Choose an application or product, e.g. your previously developed Mock-ups, a
 web-site of your choice (e.g. a freemail), Jeliot 3
 (http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot), Text Processing sw., a spreadsheet,
 car-radio interface, documentation, a paper form, etc.. Concentrate on one or
 two features (or problems) of the product that interest you and that can be
 tested. Alternatively, concentrate on two effects of the product on users that
 can be tested.
 
 Develop a test plan (about 3 pages) according to the materials from the
 lectures. Give a problem statement and test objectives. Select one performance
 and one preference measure (qualitative and quantitative goal) to test. Define
 what data/measures are related to the goals and prepare to measure them. For
 the preference measure, devise a short (3 questions) questionnaire. Select two
 tasks that involve the feature(s) you are interesting in (shall take no longer
 than 10 minutes to complete). Prepare materials needed, pre- and post-test
 questionnaires (if testing e.g. ease of use), participants' instruction, data
 logging notes. Define, how data will be collected. Mention, what would be the
 design of your study if you would have 30 volunteering participants.
  
 Split the roles in your group, one person will be a test monitor and one person
 will be conducting data logging and timing. If you work alone, the course
 assistant will help you with collecting the data.
 
 In order to complete the exercise, you shall 1) email your test plans by
 midnight before the demos to Minna Kamppuri (firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi),
 and 2) come to the demonstration and be ready to present and discuss your plan
 (take the plan with you!).
  

19: (2 points)
   
  Conducting a usability testing session according to your plan. Come to the
  Usability/Cognition Laboratory, room 2D303. Laboratory is located at the third
  floor of the Department of Computer Science. Please, gather before the given
  time (read below, groups were created before) near-by the lab, Minna will pick
  you up.
  
  Since the lab cannot accomodate more than 15 people at once, we need to split
  your demo group into two, each will take 50 minutes in the lab. The first
  groups will come from 14:15 (Finnish group) or 16:15 (foreigh students). The
  second groups will come from 15:05 (Finnish group) and from 17:05 (foreign
  students).