RE: Usability Testing for Calligra as part of study project

[Quan Nguyen]

Hello,

We find that some of the contributions you suggested might not align with our 
scope of study. The reason we pick this our interesting in Calligra and have 
practical experience in conducting usability testing with real customers and 
open community with  guidance and support from the course lecturer as well.

Our scope is to evaluate the usability of Calligra office tool suite and 
conduct some pilot testing, test session with real participants to evaluate the 
existing usability of the tools. We are focusing on Words, Sheets, Plan and 
Stage tool . The result will provide some feedbacks on existing usability of 
the tools as part of the course study and might help the Calligra improve in 
future development. Let us know if the study benefit for your community and 
align with your goal.

Thank you and best regards,

Quan Nguyen


From: Benson Muite
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 9:38 AM
To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing 
list; Dag; Quan 
Nguyen
Cc: Branko Glibota; Arya 
Yaghoubi; Fatemeh 
Mirzaei
Subject: Re: Usability Testing for Calligra as part of study project

On 4/5/23 09:26, Dag wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:29:47 CEST, Quan Nguyen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are a team of information processing science students currently
>> taking a course on user experience and usability evaluation that lead
>> by Mikko Rajanen. Our aim is to conduct a usability test on the
>> Calligra office suite, and we would greatly appreciate your input on
>> the desired functionality and any previous tests conducted on it. We
>> value your time and thank you in advance for your assistance.
> Hi, all.
> Afaik there hasn't been any previous studies, but I might be wrong.
> We are very few active developers atm so the amount of support may be
> limited.
> @thomas Is it something you would be interrested in?
>
> It would be interresting to hear your reasons for selecting calligra for
> this study.
>
There is related work on energy efficiency of word processing
software[1][2].  KDE also has increasing accessibility as one of its
goals[3].

1) https://community.kde.org/Goals/Sustainable_Software
2)
https://produktinfo.blauer-engel.de/uploads/criteriafile/en/DE-UZ%20215-202001-en-Criteria-V2.pdf
3) https://community.kde.org/Goals/KDE_For_All

Re: Usability Testing for Calligra as part of study project

[Tomas Mecir]

Hi there!

An usability study sounds interesting, could you elaborate a bit on
what exactly you'd like to do here, and what you would require from
us? And what kind of time frame are you looking at?

Also, we have a lot of improvements in the development version that
are not yet included in any releases, is it feasible for you to
compile from sources and use that instead of the released version? The
released versions should work fine too, but may focus on already
resolved issues.

Tomas



pá 7. 4. 2023 v 17:21 odesílatel Quan Nguyen
 napsal:
>
> Hello,
>
> We find that some of the contributions you suggested might not align with our 
> scope of study. The reason we pick this our interesting in Calligra and have 
> practical experience in conducting usability testing with real customers and 
> open community with  guidance and support from the course lecturer as well.
>
>
> Our scope is to evaluate the usability of Calligra office tool suite and 
> conduct some pilot testing, test session with real participants to evaluate 
> the existing usability of the tools. We are focusing on Words, Sheets, Plan 
> and Stage tool . The result will provide some feedbacks on existing usability 
> of the tools as part of the course study and might help the Calligra improve 
> in future development. Let us know if the study benefit for your community 
> and align with your goal.
>
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
>
>
> Quan Nguyen
>
>
> From: Benson Muite
> Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 9:38 AM
> To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list; Dag; Quan Nguyen
> Cc: Branko Glibota; Arya Yaghoubi; Fatemeh Mirzaei
> Subject: Re: Usability Testing for Calligra as part of study project
>
>
>
> On 4/5/23 09:26, Dag wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 14:29:47 CEST, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> We are a team of information processing science students currently
> >> taking a course on user experience and usability evaluation that lead
> >> by Mikko Rajanen. Our aim is to conduct a usability test on the
> >> Calligra office suite, and we would greatly appreciate your input on
> >> the desired functionality and any previous tests conducted on it. We
> >> value your time and thank you in advance for your assistance.
> > Hi, all.
> > Afaik there hasn't been any previous studies, but I might be wrong.
> > We are very few active developers atm so the amount of support may be
> > limited.
> > @thomas Is it something you would be interrested in?
> >
> > It would be interresting to hear your reasons for selecting calligra for
> > this study.
> >
> There is related work on energy efficiency of word processing
> software[1][2].  KDE also has increasing accessibility as one of its
> goals[3].
>
> 1) https://community.kde.org/Goals/Sustainable_Software
> 2)
> https://produktinfo.blauer-engel.de/uploads/criteriafile/en/DE-UZ%20215-202001-en-Criteria-V2.pdf
> 3) https://community.kde.org/Goals/KDE_For_All
>
>