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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: usability people
From:       Rainer Endres <endres () physos ! org>
Date:       2004-03-31 9:28:53
Message-ID: 200403311129.04493.endres () physos ! org
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Hi

I am in no way an official spokesperson for KDE and only involved in the 
usability effort from a tangential point of view. So perheaps it makes sense 
to contact one of the official representatives, if you have plans of working 
with KDE. ( http://www.kde.org/contact/representatives.php )

To answer your question, there is a nice collaboration with a german usability 
company going on. 
( http://www.linux-usability.de/download/linux_usability_report_en.pdf )

The integration of professional usability efforts is just starting IMHO. 
Usability is a process, as you know better than I do ;) I think we are just 
at a starting point. There seems to be a big interest in improving  KDE's 
usability, but at the moment, I think, we lack more scientific input to 
convince people where the areas for improvements are. 

I think it would be a nice idea to build a community of scientificly and 
commercially interested people to find common technologies needed in KDE to 
provide everything needed to collect usability data. Together with a common 
process for collecting and presenting the results, convincing developers 
about the possible improvements is much easier. Another point is the 
avoidance of doubled efforts. 

There was quite some interest on CeBIT 2004 and the upcoming KDE Community 
World Summit ( http://events.kde.org/info/conference2004/ ) may be a good 
place to meet and discuss. 

These are my opinions though ;) As I said above, perheaps it may be a nice 
idea to contact the European official contact to syncronize stuff ;) 

Greetings
		Rainer

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:49, David Clarke wrote:
> I work with University College London's Interaction Centre.  I am trying
> to get a feel for how usability and interaction people are involved with
> open source projects.  And have a few questions, if this is not the
> right group feel free to point me in another direction:
>
>
> What are peoples experiences in this group of people trained in and
> specialising in usability, are they getting involved, and do they fit in
> with the development ethic you guys use?
>
>
>
> David.
>
>

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