Minutes of the Usability Team Meeting
3:15 - 3.30PM, 28 September 2011

1. Franz wants help with:
   • Kinds of devices and tools should we get? E.g., eye trackers, with heat map creation. They cost $40K, so we can have a CPE student
   • Software. Look at Morae, $1000 academic license, or similar software. See what's available open source.
   • Blog about the usability
2. Layout of Ulab:
   • Franz explained that the observer room will be layed out similar to the layout of 256.
   • He mentioned 3 possible configs of observee room:

     (1) use computers
     (2) mobile usability evals
     (3) games, e.g., MS XBox connect

   • Maybe some comfy chairs/couches in here.
   
   
   

3. Eric Fong's observations:

   Do some actual usability scenarios of the scheduler prototype. Simulate every step of the process with different actors. E.g.,

   1. profs come in and enter prefs; study them

   2. schedulers come in and try use the prof prefs to do some scheduling
   
   
   

4. Physical status of lab: Finished but unfurnished in a couple weeks. We could wheel in tables and chairs from 256.
   
   

5. Eric/Franz Interaction: Eric recapitulated what he wants to do.