Week 3 Outline

• Announcements
• If you haven't already, post your introduction on COL!
• Evaluation methods and the software design process
• Usability testing
• Goals of usability testing
• Types of usability tests
• Test roles (Rubin ch. 4; new edition ch. 4 and pp. 112-113)
• Lab setup (Rubin ch. 3; new edition ch. 6)
• Test plan and materials (Rubin ch. 5 and 7; new edition ch. 5 and 8)
• Discuss next project
• Discuss test objectives
• Ethics of conducting a usability test
• Selecting and recruiting participants (Rubin ch. 6; new edition ch. 7)