CS 160: Lecture 16

11/1/01


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Table of Contents

CS 160: Lecture 16

Outline

Review

Why do User Testing?

Choosing Participants

Ethical Considerations

User Test Proposal

Selecting Tasks

Data Types

Deciding on Data to Collect

Process Data vs. Bottom Line Data

The “Thinking Aloud” Method

Thinking Aloud (cont.)

Administrivia

Using the Test Results

Using the Results (cont.)

Measuring Bottom-Line Usability

Some statistics

Significance

Significance

Normal distributions

Normal distributions

Analyzing the Numbers

Analyzing the Numbers (cont.)

Measuring User Preference

Comparing Two Alternatives

Experimental Details

Reporting the Results

Summary

Author: Canny

Email: jfc@cs.berkeley.edu

Home Page: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc