Quo vadis, Dolphin? Start of the developers study.

[Heiko Tietze]

Hi there,

I just close the study. 28 participants started but only 6 finished all questions. 
First insights: we asked about some "strange aspects" (functionality, robustness, operability, etc.). Those terms are known as dialog principles (ISO 9241-110: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9241) and should prioritized in our opinion because they are mutually exclusive. For instance it's rather difficult to have an easy to use system that is very feature rich. 

You sorted in average as follows (with n=28):

Functionality     1.92
Robustness     3.14
Operability     3.5
Self-descriptiveness     3.64
User expectations     5.0
Learnability     5.0
Individualization     5.78

Most important is functionality, least important individualization. Looking on your rating about implementation bug-fixing seems to be most important.

(average values between 1=needs heavy improvement and 5=almost perfect; unfortunately n=6 answers only)
Operability     2.83
Self-descriptiveness     3
Learnability     3.33
Functionality     3.5
Robustness     3.5
User expectations     3.67
Individualization     4

We will analyze the data in detail now. Based on the results and your comments we set up the user study then. 

Best wishes,
Heiko.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dr. Heiko Tietze
<heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> as discussed in this mailinglist and announced in our blog [1] we started the
> first part of the Dolphin investigation today. With this examination we would
> like to find out whether the envisioned improvements are valid. And we want to
> anonymously collect a pool of the different goals developers have for Dolphin.
>
> You can find the study at http://bit.ly/155HDcy (or without shortening at [2]).
> It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to answer our questions. As sson as
> the response quote degrades to zero we will stop the study and start analysis.
> I'm looking forward your comments!

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