Michael Rawlins presented this at the CT UPA on March 4th:
March Remote Testing Tools
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Why Remote Usability Testing Kicks Ass – by Heybaloo
Cool write-up on heybaloo.com on two remote usability tools – usertesting.com and feedbackarmy.com. Excerpt:
“Remote testing neatly sidesteps these issues: the tester is probably sitting in his own house, using the site at his own pace. He’s probably on his own, so he’s happy to chat away and let you know what he thinks and what [...]
Remote Design Research at Interaction 10
Here are the slides from Nate Bolt’s talk on Remote Design Research at IxD 10 in Savannah, GA.
Remote Research at IxD10
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Using Remote Research to Inform Social Interaction Design (SxD)
There’s a guest post by Brynn Evans over on the Bolt | Peters Blog, on the topic of using remote research methods to inform social interaction design. What’s social interaction design, you ask?:
Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer [...]
UXCampVancouver 2009
At next weekend’s UXCampVancouver, Elizabeth Snowden will be giving a talk on remote usability methods. Check it out if you’re in the area!
Update: Sold out!
Screening Out Liars From Your Usability Study
A new article on 90 Percent of Everything discusses a few ways to screen out potential “fake users” who lie about their qualifications to participate in your study:
In fact, a lot of liars can be screened out by writing a really good screener questionnaire. For example, here’s a decoy question that the Mozilla metrics team [...]
22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools
Over at MarketingProfs’ 22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools series, our recruiting tool Ethnio gets a shout-out. Here are the pros and cons they mention:
Pros: Enables usability researchers to acquire actual users from the website for testing.
Cons: Researchers must be available when a participant response is received, and the tool is for recruiting participants [...]
Oldie but Goodie
From UserCentered.net, an overview of moderated remote research, which they call “remote synchronous research”.
‘Remote user research and testing’ is where the user and the facilitator are in different places. Remote user research can fall into two categories, ‘synchronous’ and ‘asynchronous’.
In synchronous protocols, a facilitator interacts with a participant who is remote and leads the research [...]
Remote Testing Tools Round-up by Liz Bacon
Liz Bacon of Devise maintains a great list of remote usability testing tools on Google Docs; check em out!
(We’ll probably have something like this in the near future as well; for now, check out our Tools page!)
NEOUPA: Remote Usability Studies event
The Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals Association (NEOUPA) recently put on an event called “Remote usability studies: Get great results while saving time and money“. Quoth Jason Holmes of American Greetings, co-organizer of the event (along with Aaron Rosenberg):
The NEOUPA event was great. Lots of interest, lots of enthusiasm. We had about 45 people there, even [...]
