Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 11/6/12 10:00 PM, vimalathithan wrote: > > Hi, I am new to this community. > > > > A group consists of 5 members from School of Informatics and > Computing, working with Professor Jean Camp on a research paper. > > Our research is to carry out a case study after making changes in the > UI of T

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-07 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Damian Johnson wrote (06 Nov 2012 23:31:02 GMT) : > Runa A. Sandvik wrote (06 Nov 2012 22:44:03 GMT) : >> Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could benefit from >> a usability study. Thank you, Runa, for mentioning Tails here. > Usability studies only help if there's development

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-07 Thread Damian Johnson
> What we're doing now is implementing the suggestions made in my HotPETS > paper, then testing that said changes really do increase usability in a > lab study. Ahhh, gotcha. That's great! Let us know if you have any questions. If they aren't yet on #tor-dev then that would be a great place for de

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Greg Norcie
Hi, I'm Greg, I'm a PhD student at Indiana University, and I', helping supervise Vimalathithan on this project. You're right Damian: a usability eval on it's own is not very useful to Tor. The usability evaluation has actually been done (and was presented at HotPETS 2012[1]) What we're doing now

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Damian Johnson: >> Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could benefit from a >> usability study. > > Usability studies only help if there's development resources to make > the suggestions happen. Tor Browser has had a study or two. It has been helpful even though we have not yet had th

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
vimalathithan: > Hi, I am new to this community. > > > > A group consists of 5 members from School of Informatics and > Computing, working with Professor Jean Camp on a research paper. > > Our research is to carry out a case study after making changes in the > UI of Tor Browser. > Hello and w

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Damian Johnson
> Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could benefit from a > usability study. Usability studies only help if there's development resources to make the suggestions happen. Mike and Tails should be the ones to make the call about if they have the bandwidth to take advantage of a usabilit

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread k e bera
By Torbrowser UI they might mean the whole "anonymous browsing" experience. There are some reports of real user feedback that were posted to Tor-Talk mailing list awhile back that may give some start on the problems involved: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-January/022893.ht

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure if it would benefit much from a usability study at the > moment since development on it seems to be on hiatus (I might be > wrong, Tomás would know). Actually, both Tails and the Tor Browser Bundle could benefit from a usabilit

Re: [tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Vimalathithan. By "Tor UI" I suspect that you mean Vidalia? https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en I'm not sure if it would benefit much from a usability study at the moment since development on it seems to be on hiatus (I might be wrong, Tomás would know). On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at

[tor-dev] Working on GUI

2012-11-06 Thread vimalathithan
Hi, I am new to this community. A group consists of 5 members from School of Informatics and Computing, working with Professor Jean Camp on a research paper. Our research is to carry out a case study after making changes in the UI of Tor Browser. Could anyone here, please provide a link t