[DC LoCo] Looking for guinea pigs for usability testing...

[mpaulson1 at cox.net]

It is not clear to me where this will take place. 
While I signed up at the Takoma Pk Folk Festival, I live in Falls Church, and would rather participate in something local, if there is such a thing... 
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much computer stuff going on in northern  VA...

mike

---- Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste at kde.org> wrote: 
> 
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> The idea is that you, the Loco member, will help guide a lesser experienced 
> user (a friend of family member) through a simple activity on the Linux 
> desktop.  By having some lesser experienced users go through these 
> activities, we hope to get some ideas on how to make the software better.
> 
> We are hoping to do a pilot activity on Saturday October 10 in the afternoon.
> 
> If you are intersted in participating, please post your name and if you will 
> bring a friend/family member to test with. 
> 
> You can also post your interest on the forum thread:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5887481#post5887481
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> ~ Celeste
> 
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 18:41:49 Kevin Cole wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Celeste Lyn Paul, who does human interface design work and one of the
> > "People behind KDE" (http://www.behindkde.org/people/celeste/) has been
> > trying to get a usability testing gig going for a couple of months.  She
> > says that Canonical is now taking an interest and has sent some swag to
> > entice/reward the test subjects.
> >
> > I'm game to do something at the Cleveland Park Library, but we'll need a
> > few LoCo volunteers and some guinea pigs -- mostly people who've had little
> > or no experience with Linux.  The idea is to try to see what areas of the
> > user experience need to be improved upon.  Or so I gather.  Celeste wants
> > to keep the tests relatively short, somewhere in the 20-minute range.
> >
> > Anyone interested in helping out?  Celeste can provide more details if
> > there are questions...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > P.S. I just added the folks who signed up at Takoma Park.  So, welcome
> > newcomers.  Feel free to introduce yourselves, ask questions, and
> > hopefully, volunteer.
> >
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