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Meeting Time: In Classroom 430pm-5:30pm, Wednesday 4/22/09

Attendees: John, Micharel

Meeting Goal: usability studies assignment

Topics Discussed: Usability Studies.

We have completed our documentation. I have found 3 people to participate in the usability test, which I'll do this weekend.  I've written up the pre- and post-test surveys.

This week, we completed our Documentation rough draft.  Because our Documentation has close to 40 steps and nearly as many screen shots, condensing the content down to a reasonable number of pages was quite a challenge.  We ended up cropping many images and increasing the page margins to reduce white space.  Now, I think our Documentation is a bit too cramped, so I will be working to improve it's visual appeal.  I will also be responsible for printing our Documentation copies for our usability test on Monday at 8pm in BRNG.

For week three we had to book a place to hold our testing.  We all agreed on a date and found a room that had the equipment we need.  Then, we put together our rough draft of documentation.  Everyone did quality work and we should not have much to fix after peer editing.  At first I was unsure how much detail to put in the steps but I think I found a good medium that should be very helpful to the typical user of this computer program.

• When you met and where:  we met on Sunday in the same room we have class in.

This week I contacted 3 participants for our usability test.  I scheduled a time during Monday and Tuesday to conduct the tests.

This week I have edited our rough draft and turned it in to the professor before class on Wednesday.  I have also been recruiting people for the usability testing study.

We met Monday April 20th during classtime.  All members of the group (Brett, John, Hu, and Liz) were present.  This meeting was spent discussing options for the rough draft and discussing the usability testing.  The next group meeting is planned for Monday April 27th after class in Beering to finish creating surveys for usability testing.