Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst

SteveC wrote:
 We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and 
 we'll put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street? Find a 
 mailing list? Add a point of interest? What should they do? That's 
 up to you.

At the risk of stating the really bleeding obvious, there's not an enormous
amount of point doing user testing on Potlatch 1 given that development of
Potlatch 2 is so far advanced. For example, two lessons you could feasibly
take from P1 user testing are what the hell's with this tagging thing?,
and why doesn't this map look at all like the one I had a minute ago?,
both of which are of course addressed with P2.

It might be possible to get some generalised issues from it, of course. But
since it would be a shame to waste a promising initiative on things that
have already been fixed, it might be worth concentrating on some of the
other aspects of the site (like the whole lack-of-documentation what the
hell do I do now thing).

cheers
Richard
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread SteveC

On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
 Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some simple online
 screen capturing software while asked to do some simple tasks and this is
 where you come in.
 
 What screen capturing software package is it?

I believe it is

http://www.usertesting.com/

Steve

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 16:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:

 On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
 Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some simple online
 screen capturing software while asked to do some simple tasks and this is
 where you come in.

 What screen capturing software package is it?

 I believe it is

        http://www.usertesting.com/

So, a Windows only client: http://www.usertesting.com/popups/ApplicantFAQs.aspx

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread SteveC

On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

 On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 16:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
 
 On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
 
 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
 Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some simple 
 online
 screen capturing software while asked to do some simple tasks and this is
 where you come in.
 
 What screen capturing software package is it?
 
 I believe it is
 
http://www.usertesting.com/
 
 So, a Windows only client: 
 http://www.usertesting.com/popups/ApplicantFAQs.aspx

Feel free to suggest something 'better' then.

Steve

stevecoast.com


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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:20:18 -0600
SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:

 
 On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
 
  On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
  Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some
  simple online screen capturing software while asked to do some
  simple tasks and this is where you come in.
  
  What screen capturing software package is it?
 
 I believe it is
 
   http://www.usertesting.com/
 

Does anyone know this? Does it perform analysis, or is that
post-capture? If it is simply recording being post-processed, the
Linux- and Mac users should have their own equivalents.

Yours,
Morten

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-29 Thread Mike N.
We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and we'll 
put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street?


 This sort of study will be interesting to see.   Adding a street today 
must be daunting for the newbie.Despite the lure of the open road - 
blank areas where roads from new subdivisions have never been created, I've 
never seen a new user pop up and add the streets from their own subdivision. 
But I have seen people pop up and make single corrections to that evil, 
community-killing TIGER import - corrections such as breaking a through 
street that was never connected, or aligning a road.People are now aware 
of missing streets since the navigation apps use OSM; I see many Skobbler 
reports of missing streets.   Hopefully the end result of this study is that 
we'll understand how to engage the newbies to help contribute.Other than 
that, the TIGER 2010 data will provide most of the missing streets in the 
US, and entered by the core users in the US.



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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote:
 Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some simple online
 screen capturing software while asked to do some simple tasks and this is
 where you come in.

What screen capturing software package is it?

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