Thursday, April 21, 2011

Success at J'Pura...

Date: 21.04.2011
Time: 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Sri Sumangala Building, University of Sr Jayawardanapura (USJP)

We thought of getting more feedback for our system from an experienced computer user. Thus we decided to demonstrate our system to Mr. Chanaka of USJP. He also is involved in some programming activities like Mr. Asoka.

In this demonstration we have omitted the horizontal set-up according to previous feedback. It was his office cubical which we had to set up our layout. However it was sufficient enough for the purpose.

There was a noticeable improvement in conducting our experiment with compared to the previous ones. This one was more standard and focused in nature. Additionally we have decided to include 15 questions in the end which covered our research hypothesis and usability aspects. Purpose of inclusion of those questions was to address the qualitative and subjective nature of the user experience.

User feedback were amazingly positive. He also was able to identify the table structure and said it is important to have it for a better comprehension of the information. Another fact which arisen was having uniform location for particular functions on the screen (e.g. "Logout" in top-right). He stated that he wasn't aware of such standard positions of objects on the screen before this experience. But he stressed that it is better to have such positions if they can get spatial cues for object positions.

He clearly stated that he can identify the differences among the objects very clearly. He described the layout of the homepage very accurately.

Mr. Chanaka suggested that it will be great if we can extend this particular concept to be used with popular screen readers and web pages.

After interviewing Mr. Chanaka we met with Mr. Kasun who is a partially blind student in 2nd year at USJP. We witnessed the location to be used for our future experiments and agreed to take 5 students per day as time permits. We have planned to to those experiments on 27th and 29th of April. Before that we will be doing a pilot study on our colleagues on 25th of April to make sure we won't make serious mistakes in our experiments.

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