[Qgis-developer] Qgis usability tests

[Alex Mandel]

Asli,

The paper is great, have you submitted this to a journal or do you have
a preferred citation for it?

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/11/2011 04:21 AM, yilmaz asli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is the link, you can also find it from here.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1OP4EhyYSeMZDdjMTZiOTYtNWJiYi00OGI4LWI3MGYtNjIxZWZmZTIzZDhl&hl=en&authkey=CKiDx6AB
> 
> 
> thanks..
> Aslı
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Asli,
>>
>> Could you upload it to Google Docs and share the link that way?
>>  Looking forward to reading it.
>>
>> - Nathan
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:15 PM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I tried to attach the report but it is blocked some how,  needs
>>> administors' acception, I think..
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Aslı
>>>
>>>   On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>
>>>> Ok. In two weeks, I am going to finalize and share it on the mailing
>>>> list. Thanks for your interest.
>>>>
>>>> Aslı.
>>>>
>>>>   On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Aslı,
>>>>>> If you could, are you able to share it on the mailing lists?  I would
>>>>> really
>>>>>> like to read it and see what you came up with, I think it could be
>>>>> quite
>>>>>> interesting.
>>>>>> - Nathan
>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:42 PM, yilmaz asli <aslimail2me at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is Qgis 1.6. In the end of the report, there are suggestions that
>>>>>>> refers to the cases in the study and for better improvements of
>>>>> them. During
>>>>>>> the study, Assoc. Prof. Dr.Kursat Cağıltay was my advisor. It was
>>>>> just
>>>>>>> final homework of a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) course, but
>>>>> turned out
>>>>>>> to be a nice report I suppose. It is a user-based one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, I do interface design because of my profession. I work in
>>>>>>> Modelling and Simulation Research and Development Center in METU. We
>>>>> do
>>>>>>> usability tests on simulator interfaces. But I am doing Phd at
>>>>> Geodetic and
>>>>>>> Geographic Information Technologies Division at METU.This time, I
>>>>> wanted
>>>>>>> study Gis area.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do you welcome these kind of research? I know that you have
>>>>> meetings
>>>>>>> that developers do presentations and share their report. I can send
>>>>> it here
>>>>>>> before or the committee?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here are some links:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.ggit.metu.edu.tr/ (GGIT department at METU)
>>>>>>> http://www.metu.edu.tr/ (METU web site)
>>>>>>> http://www.modsimmer.metu.edu.tr/ ( Modelling and Simulation Center
>>>>> at
>>>>>>> METU)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> best regards
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Aslı Yılmaz
>>>>>>> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Werner Macho <
>>>>> werner.macho at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> finallizing the report now. I would like to share it with you if
>>>>>>>>> possible when I finished.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That sounds really great .. If there are some hints for improvement
>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> the report I'm sure we'll try to bring it to the current version.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On what version of QGIS is your report based?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> kind regards
>>>>>>>> Werner
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Aslı Yılmaz
>>>>>>> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What would be really nice too would be to extend out HIG document (at
>>>>> the bottom of CODING in root of source) to include much more detailed
>>>>> guidelines on how developers should achieve good usability and
>>>>> consistent ui.
>>>>>
>>>>> I too am pleased to hear of your work and look forward to reading your
>>>>> report.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release  Manager)