User Experience Inspections -- managing and coordinating a distributed process

[Paul Zablosky]

I have been thinking about the logistics of the planned User Experience 
Inspections.  We are assembling teams of experts from various 
institutions and locations to evaluate several diverse products (Sakai, 
uPortal, and Moodle)  along several dimensions (Usability, 
Accessibility, Cognitive Walkthroughs). We want to produce results that 
we can merge and aggregate.  Investigators are expected to be 
explorative, and reflective, and innovative, since we are starting with 
a somewhat unrefined protocol.

This sounds like a lot of fun, and an opportunity to learn a great deal. 

Daphne has put together a wiki page giving an outline of the process 
with a proposed protocol and reporting template at User Experience 
Inspections (a.k.a. Heuristic Evaluations) 
<http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/User+Experience+Inspections+%28a.k.a.+Heuristic+Evaluations%29>.  
I have added a list of points focused on the coordination of the 
inspection teams 
<http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/User+Experience+Inspections+%28a.k.a.+Heuristic+Evaluations%29#UserExperienceInspections%28a.k.a.HeuristicEvaluations%29-WorkingGroupCoordination> 
to Daphne's excellent framework.

I invite comments and suggestions, either in the wiki or in this mailing 
list.

Paul


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