Hello, I'm studying informatics and for my thesis, I want to do research on usability of application installer user interfaces for Debian, targeted towards non-expert users. My plan is to analyze current users' use of and expectations for an application installer tool, (re-)design a prototype, and test this prototype with users. Of course, if possible for me, I'll work on this further on after I'm done with my thesis.
The idea came up because I found that the package management tools were not usable for non-experts and even I had problems finding the right package. I want to use the adept-installer as a basis for user testing and prototyping, and I'd like to incorporate debtags if reasonable and feasable. Because the debtags project seems to have emerged from the debian-usability project, I hope to find people on this list who are interested in this project. I want to use usability engineering methods in an "open-source way": I will publish my daily or weekly results, the methods and techniques I use etc. on a website (not yet ready to announce), and hope there will be much feedback or support from usability people as well as users and developers. Anybody interested? Any critique, positive or negative, is welcome! Best regards, Frank -- Frank Ploss email [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key ID: 50614447 * download my key: http://kluenter.de/frank.asc _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
