[ux] Feedback on my usability evaluation of tor launcher wiki page

[Linda Naeun Lee]

On 2017-02-11 14:42, Carolin Zöbelein wrote:
> Hi Linda,
> 
> at irc I promised you to have a look at
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX2016#Use
> rpainpoints
> 
> Hence, here my comments:
> 
> 1. In section: "Resulting Improvements" 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX2016#Res
> ultingImprovements
> 
> => The order of text/content and tables is confusing. After reading the
> first paragraph ("We used these industry standard metrics ..."), I'm
> expecting the content of table 2 and not one. Perhaps you should write
> the content(order) of the whole section a bit differently.

Thanks!

> 
> 2. A general remark, not especially about this content
> => When I was a student, I participated at a lot of "scientific
> laboratory research" as test person. I don't know the conditions within
> this research was done, but in general the most times if I read
> research papers I missed more information about this conditions and
> about the "test persons". My personal experience is: "official" the
> offer to be a test person was given for all kind of persons but in
> reality the test group was very homogeneous of a special group of
> people.
> E.g. I participated for tests at the economic sciences department of my
> university. Official, to be a test person was open for everybody, but
> in reality, 99% of the participants where freshman economic science
> students. I would say, that's not the average of the population ;)
> 
> I only wanted to use the chance to remark my personal experience here.
> I has nothing especially to do with your work :).

Yep, we tried to combat this specifically and talk about it in the paper 
(we limited the people from on-campus to 50% and recruited 'normal' 
people from the surrounding area through craigslist for the rest), but 
not on the wiki. I'll add it.
> 
> This test person time was a strange time. Clicking three hours all the
> time on the same button can be very funny. ;) 
> 
> Bye,
> Carolin
> 
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> Am Freitag, den 10.02.2017, 07:55 -0600 schrieb Linda Naeun Lee:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I would like some feedback on my writing. I've gotten my paper
>> accepted 
>> into PETS under the condition that I add a section explaining my
>> design 
>> considerations[1], which the shepherd thinks it's arguably the most 
>> valuable part of my paper. Since it doesn't exist before yesterday,
>> I 
>> would like feedback on 1) if this is helpful 2) if it is accurate and
>> 3) 
>> if I should add anything.
>> 
>> If you have time, I would love for you to read the whole wiki
>> page[2] 
>> and give me feedback on the outline! I've ordered things in the wiki 
>> differently than my paper, but I think this makes more sense. But let
>> me 
>> know if it doesn't!
>> 
>> ヽ(•◡•)ﾉ,
>> Linda
>> 
>> P.S.: Yes, it's long-ish, but it's much, much shorter than my 21-
>> page 
>> conference-style paper. ;)
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX2016#D
>> esignconsiderations
>> [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX20
>> 16
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