[Qgis-developer] Qgis usability tests

Nathan Woodrow madmanwoo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 06:31:40 EST 2011


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
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>  Aslı Yılmaz
>> Industrial Designer METU'05
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Aslı Yılmaz
> Industrial Designer METU'05
>
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