Email 17/04/08

Hey Guys,

Just working through the stuff required for the usability section and I've come up with the following plan,

- Introduction to section, brief paragraph explaining the success and failure of certain features, (I'll just say that Speech recognition was a pipe dream etc...)

Then following that I've come up with the following section heading structure for which each section needs to be a maximum of 2 pages (1 of which will be a massive table),

ICS (I'll do this section)
Comment on incomplete features
Usability study for the user interface
Monitoring Centre (Jimbo doing this section?)
Comment on incomplete features
Usability study for the user interface
Simulation Engine(Si doing this section)
Comment on incomplete features
Usability study for the user interface

Ok for the usability study i've dug up the following shiz, It's basically the same as the heuristic evaluation we did for MySpace and Facebook, I've found "Nielsen's 10 heuristics" which are at... http://info.comp.lancs.ac.uk/year2/notes/csc252/slides.html under slides 16-17 it's called evaluation.ppt. What i'll do is insert the 10 heuristics in the appendix, so the table structure wants to look something like this,

Heuristic ID | Description (I.e. if it was violated or not and why) | Improvements that can be made.

This should only take like 2 hours max, and atleast that way we've got 1 extra section of the report finished, also if you wanna include screen shot's of specific examples that mite be cool. Anyhooo just e-mail me it over when done and i'll sthick it into the report.

Dan