Re: Ideas for a term paper on usability

Hi Jendrik!

> my name is Jendrik and I'm a computer science and psychology student 
> from Germany. In one course this semester I have to prepare a term paper 
> about usability. Since I would like my work to be useful and I'm a fan 
> of GNOME I figured I could maybe help the Usability Project. Do you have 
> a task that I could work on? It shouldn't be anything too big and should 
> enable me to write an essay of approximately 12 pages about it.

It is hard to make suggestions without knowing more about your paper.
Have a look round the usability part of the GNOME wiki [1] if you want
to find out more about what we do. The HIG [2] might be interesting.

If you'd like to help out, you could do a heuristic evalution [3, 4] of
a part of GNOME. I can point you in the direction of some good
contenders there.

Best,

Allan

[1] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject
[2] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_evaluation
[4] http://usabilitynet.org/tools/expertheuristic.htm
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