This assignment is a hands-on exercise on qualitative evalution.
Its immediate purpose is to give you experience conducting a usability
study. Methods used in this study include conceptual model discovery, strict
observation, think-aloud, constructive interaction, questionnaires, and
interviews. Because of the economy of these methods, you are expected to
be able to apply them in your actual work practices.
Your group will pretend it is working for a company that is developing
the system. You will use each other as subjects, applying the various methodologies.
The system examined by the class changes every year. Systems investigated
have include:
