Actually, Mel's youth did some keyboard evaluations for us early on in the program and they do have some XOs. They are a very capable group.
-walter On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Sounds like Walter is on it. My 2 cents, ask this question and figure > how to more questions like this in the future. Also, if representatives > from deployments are in Cambridge this week, make sure to raise the > question there. > > After our last exchange a month ago, I thought about ways to gather user > input on future GUI design. The developer key and need to load a special > build was the first show stopper. The second was that you can't stop > class to test new code. E.g. Tim from Waveplace said he can't interfere > with deployments and learning to "beta" test. > > I sent a link to the new sugar GUI to a lead in Peru but I don't think > he really "grokked" the new design. May be because its static or because > its in English. Bottom line is that I don't think those pages alone will > get you the quality input needed. > > I'll try again with a link to new design and questions on current frame > on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. > > Long term you need a standing lab. I believe I saw David Cavallo meeting > with Mel King some time ago. Mel started a technology center for kids n > Boston: http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/ > > With 10 - 20 Xos and their buy in, that could be your usability lab. I > think David Cavallo will have contacts to get that started. > > Sorry, I wont have time to do a lot of work on that in the near future > :-( I can send a couple of e-mails a week but otherwise have to pass he > buck. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > BTW I'm not on the sugar list (e-mail is maxed out). Please forward > there as needed. I'll also comment one more time on Frame thread on > devel list. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:34 PM > To: Marco Pesenti Gritti > Cc: Simon Schampijer; Greg Smith (gregmsmi); Eben Eliason; Sugar List > Subject: Re: [sugar] hot corners > > Let me talk to Carla, Miguel, and Hernan this week. They should be able > to help us out with some kid testing. > > -walter > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Simon Schampijer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Eben I only added a slider for the delay of the activation of the hot > corners. >>> By default the delay is zero. >>> >>> And since I wanted to test out how the warm edge works in general I >>> added a top warm edge since I tapped myself moving the mouse there >>> when I wanted to switch activities. >>> >>> I can make another rpm with warm edges all around and a separate >>> delay option so we can test it out how it feels. >>> >>> Did you actually tested the rpm I provided? >> >> I think we can't figure out which options to provide exactly before >> understanding the problem better and having done some usability >> testing. >> >> We have a general problem to solve here... How do we do simple >> usability testing with kids? Do we have contacts in the deployments >> that we can use do so? Are they comfortable to install a joyride build > >> (and maybe an rpm)? >> >> Marco >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
