Usability Testing

Objectives

evaluate the materials as they are experienced by the user attempting to meet his or her needs
develop a style appropriate to your class and audience

Working in teams, user-test the Web document sets below.

For each document have one person try to navigate the structure of that document to answer the provided questions. The person should play the role of the naive user relying only on the information provided in pages,
As the person works, have them talk out loud about what they are seeing, the problems they are having, and anything they are confused or unsure about.
Have a different person do each of the different documents.
As a group talk about how user preconceptions might affect how the user interprets the pages and the structure.

Forest & Shade Tree Pathology
http://www.esf.edu/course/jworrall/
Question: What role do gooseberries play in rust infestations of White Pines?
Basics of HTML Browsers and HTML For Classroom Use
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~rells/R550
Question: What is the number of the current version of HTML?
Fisheries 101
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~fish101/
Question:Which Active Learning sessions will not require the use of a computer?