[sugar] hot corners

[Walter Bender]

Actually, Mel's youth did some keyboard evaluations for us early on in
the program and they do have some XOs. They are a very capable group.

-walter

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
<gregmsmi at cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Sounds like Walter is on it. My 2 cents, ask this question and figure
> how to more questions like this in the future. Also, if representatives
> from deployments are in Cambridge this week, make sure to raise the
> question there.
>
> After our last exchange a month ago, I thought about ways to gather user
> input on future GUI design. The developer key and need to load a special
> build was the first show stopper. The second was that you can't stop
> class to test new code. E.g. Tim from Waveplace said he can't interfere
> with deployments and learning to "beta" test.
>
> I sent a link to the new sugar GUI to a lead in Peru but I don't think
> he really "grokked" the new design. May be because its static or because
> its in English. Bottom line is that I don't think those pages alone will
> get you the quality input needed.
>
> I'll try again with a link to new design and questions on current frame
> on the olpc-sur at lists.laptop.org list.
>
> Long term you need a standing lab. I believe I saw David Cavallo meeting
> with Mel King some time ago. Mel started a technology center for kids n
> Boston: http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/
>
> With 10 - 20 Xos and their buy in, that could be your usability lab. I
> think David Cavallo will have contacts to get that started.
>
> Sorry, I wont have time to do a lot of work on that in the near future
> :-( I can send a couple of e-mails a week but otherwise have to pass he
> buck.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> BTW I'm not on the sugar list (e-mail is maxed out). Please forward
> there as needed. I'll also comment one more time on Frame thread on
> devel list.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Bender [mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:34 PM
> To: Marco Pesenti Gritti
> Cc: Simon Schampijer; Greg Smith (gregmsmi); Eben Eliason; Sugar List
> Subject: Re: [sugar] hot corners
>
> Let me talk to Carla, Miguel, and Hernan this week. They should be able
> to help us out with some kid testing.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Simon Schampijer
> <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>>> Eben I only added a slider for the delay of the activation of the hot
> corners.
>>> By default the delay is zero.
>>>
>>> And since I wanted to test out how the warm edge works in general I
>>> added a top warm edge since I tapped myself moving the mouse there
>>> when I wanted to switch activities.
>>>
>>> I can make another rpm with warm edges all around and a separate
>>> delay option so we can test it out how it feels.
>>>
>>> Did you actually tested the rpm I provided?
>>
>> I think we can't figure out which options to provide exactly before
>> understanding the problem better and having done some usability
>> testing.
>>
>> We have a general problem to solve here... How do we do simple
>> usability testing with kids? Do we have contacts in the deployments
>> that we can use do so? Are they comfortable to install a joyride build
>
>> (and maybe an rpm)?
>>
>> Marco
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