Week 4 Outline

• Review next project
• Establish pilot schedule and test participants
• Discuss take-home midterm quiz
• Posted next week, due 2 weeks later
• Part I is grade your own
• Part II requires extended answers and explanations
• Discuss writing effective questions on questionnaires
• Usability testing (continued)
  • Ethics of conducting a usability test
  • Selecting and recruiting participants (Rubin ch. 6; new edition ch. 7)
  • Number of test participants (Jakob Nielsen)
  • Conducting the test (Rubin ch. 8; new edition ch. 9)
  • Debriefing (Rubin ch. 9; new edition ch. 10)
  • Preparing the report (Rubin ch. 10, new edition ch. 11)
• Project 3 (report for usability test)
• Discussion on why usability reports often have little impact