From kde-usability  Thu Sep 08 13:43:32 2005
From: Zak Jensen <coolguyzak () gmail ! com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:43:32 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Tip of the day
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Check the archives. I already gave several examples in previous
e-mails. If you can find the first email I made to this thread,
there's a link to the kde-artist forums, where there is more
information.

On 9/8/05, Benjamin Meyer <benjamin.meyer@trolltech.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 September 2005 06:40 pm, Zak Jensen wrote:
> > On 9/7/05, Harijs Buss <hbush@apollo.lv> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 16:19, Zak Jensen rakstija:
> > > > The basic concept is to create an agent/daemon that tracks what the
> > > > user does, and offers tips that are relevent to that activity
> > >
> > > M$ tried exactly such thing in one of Office releases (don't remember how
> > > was this "talking paper clip" called). This feature was universally
> > > claimed by majority of users as absolutely most annoying thing M$ has
> > > ever made, and excluded from following versions of MS Office.
> > >
> > > People usually do not like idea of being watched and mentored all the
> > > time.
> >
> > From what I have heard (and experienced) the troubling aspect for most
> > people was not that it monitored what you were doing. It was, instead,
> > that it wasy very "in your face" about what it would do. The agent
> > would pop up and constantly offer its services to you. When it was
> > displayed, it would animate itself, which would distract users from
> > what they were doing. It had disturbing sound effects. And, possibly
> > the worst aspect of the whole thing, was very difficult to turn off.
> > It was fist available (I believe) in Office 2000. It may still be in
> > office now.
> >
> > My idea is much less intrusive. It would only monitor your activities
> > when either:
> > A) You had "usability logging" enabled, or
> > B) When the "KTips plasmoid" was displayed on the screen.
> > In all other circumstances, the agent would not be active, or even
> > loaded into the screen.
> >
> > In addition, it would not display an annoying animated agent. The
> > whole concept rests on the foundation of the agent being within a
> > passive plasmoid. If a user doesn't want the tips, they can close the
> > plasmoid. If enabled, the plasmoid would be largely inert. It might
> > update once every 5-10 minutes, wouldn't scroll, and wouldn't utilize
> > dialogs or pop ups to communicate with the user.
> >
> > Another key function of this is it provides "tips". It monitors user
> > activity over a long period of time, and adjusts the tips displayed
> > based on that activity. It doesn't have the "it looks like you are
> > making a letter" functionality.
> >
> > > Maybe would be worth to make such feature as special "learning option".
> > > But God save Linux if this would become the default.
> >
> > That is what I intended it for. It doesn't aid the user at every turn.
> > The premise behind the whole thing was making KTips more applicable &
> > less annoying.
> >
> > > Harry
> 
> Can you give an example?  I am not quite sure what it would do.
> 
> -Benjamin Meyer
> 
> 
>
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