[ATTW-L] usability online?

[Joseph Robertshaw]

Hello Miles,
I have been thinking about this a lot for classes I am hoping to develop
and the only solid idea I have come up with so far is adapting the
think-aloud protocols of Flower & Hayes (1981
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/356600>) to a screen recording.  OBS, Jing,
Screencast-o-matic,  and many other tools would serve well to create the
MP4 source files needed for analysis, and then, a focus on data analysis
techniques seems like a good theme for such a course. The difficult part of
this would be getting students to "think/talk through" the actions that
they are performing.

Then, there are Keyloggers I suppose and Cell phones ALL have eye trackers
in them. I am still trying to learn how to access those for purposeful use.
Teaching students about the everyday surveillance that they live in also
seems like a value-added objective.

I don't know if this helps you at all. I am still at the wrestling-with-it
stage myself.

Best,



On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 6:36 AM Miles Kimball <miles.kimball at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anyone care to share approaches to teaching usability testing in an online
> class? Traditional usability testing  is difficult to do fully online
> without asking the test subjects to bear a lot of the load (setting up
> cameras and so on). In the past, with f2f classes I've tried to keep the
> focus on paper prototype testing, but even that seems unworkable online.
>
> Any ideas or thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Miles
>
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> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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