Comments on: Usability Symposium https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/11/27/usability-symposium/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Will Stephenson https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/11/27/usability-symposium/#comment-1362 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:21:19 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2681#comment-1362 It’s a Mangold eyetracker. Sigi and Eva were displaying KDE apps via VNC on the Windows eyetracker machine.

A HD webcam and mic are also part of the eyetracker suite so it’s fine for ‘thinking aloud’ studies.

]]> By: seele https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/11/27/usability-symposium/#comment-1354 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:42:00 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2681#comment-1354 Also, liking the Kickoff improvements. However, in the All Programs tab, when you go into a category, the name of the current submenu shouldn’t be used in the link back to the previous menu. The same visual design could be used, but only make the area around the arrow infront of the label part of the link. Links should be the name of the target, not the current location. Using the current location as a link to the previous location is very confusing.

]]> By: seele https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/11/27/usability-symposium/#comment-1353 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:36:55 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2681#comment-1353 What type of eyetracker do you have? The problem with most of the ones I know of is that the hardware only runs in Windows. As a result you have to use VMWare in order to run KDE. I’ve had problems with this in the past because all of the eyetrackers I’ve used are resource hogs, and even with high powered machines, everything runs slow.

Also, please please PLEASE triangulate your data if you use eyetracking data. By itself it is useless because it can’t tell you what the user is thinking. It has to be used in conjunction with some reflection data in order to mean anything.

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