HCI 460

Spring 2016

Craig Miller

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Project 3
Usability Testing and Report Plan
Final Version Due Sunday May 22 before 11:30 PM

Overview

For this assignment, your group will conduct its usability test and report its findings.

The Report Format

In chapter 12 (pp. 274 - 277), The Rubin & Chisnell (R&C) text describes the sections of the final report. Your report should follow this format in addition to the following guidelines and constraints.

Executive Summary

R&C says that this section should be kept to one page. Because your project is a more basic test, try to keep your summary down to one or two paragraphs.

Method Section

As R&C says, this is just your test plan but revised to include any modifications that came from the pilot test.

Results Section

Whereas R&C does not mention test objectives (research questions), you should organize your results by them. In this section, list each test objective and supply the relevant results that pertain it. Of course, if your test reveals significant usability problems that do not pertain to your original objectives, you will want to describe those results too. Many of your results will be qualitative in nature and require you to provide a short description of what happened. Depending on the nature of your results, the length of this section could vary considerably, possibly from one to five pages.

Findings and Recommendations

R&C makes some good suggestions here. Report usability is very important. If you must go into details, at least provide a short easy-to-locate statement for each finding or recommendation. Again, partially organizing this section by test objectives is helpful. This section may be as short as one page.

Submission

Submit your report and materials using the D2L web site. PDF is my preferred format, but I will accept any commonly available format (e.g. Word, HTML). Again, provide a short description of how the individual members in your group contributed to conducting the test and writing the report.

Grading

A D2L rubric will be used to assess the report.