Breakout: 10 minute test

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Friday, 28 October 2016 10:35:43 BST Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 28 October 2016 03:01:47 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > What do you have in mind?
> > Are these things reported?
> > Are the things all these people try the same things?
> > 
> > It doesn't sound like a very stable metric to me.
> 
> for this i fear the only good way is real life user testing, which
> historically has been very hard to do for us (because it needs a pretty big
> sample, so asking mom to use plasma for 10 minutes isn't that significative
> ;)

  While the sample size might be small, any amount of testing like that would 
still show things that we, quite simply, don't run into... The age-old issue 
of us simply having gotten used to those weird little things that happen, and 
us just working around them without thinking about it. Tests like this would 
very effectively show that :)

> i wonder how many people we can get to get filmed, maybe during pubic shows
> where KDE has a booth using plasma (even preferably if is for the first
> time) for 10 minutes?

  This is a really great idea... Even at places like QtCon, i could see 
something like this being very useful. Perhaps fosdem as well... If a test 
setup could be made which fits in a backpack or similar, this could be 
something that... really could work well. Analysing the data would take effort 
as well, of course, but definitely this is something that would be worth it!

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