Usability research meeting 2024-09-17¶

Location: ACDH-CH
Updated information in the course of the meeting is in color and/or marked with an ✅. Every participant is welcome to add and adapt.

Participants¶

• OpenAtlas: Alexander Watzinger
• IMAFO: Samvel Grigoryan

General¶

• Ask if notes taking, publishing results and naming them is is ok or if they prefer to remain anonymous ✅
• What is planned to be worked on and which source material is used
  Entering sources (charter) from images/PDF (some with available text), adding translations, creating/connecting entities mentioned in the source
• How does work begin, e.g. using bookmarks, already logged in, ...
  Starting laptop, browser, using a browser bookmark and than being already logged in

Technical information¶

	Answer	Info
Device	Laptop	+ external mouse
Operating system	Windows 11
Browser	Edge
Screen resolution	1920 x 1080
OpenAtlas version	8.6.1
UI language	English

Used features¶

	Answer	Info
Redmine	No	but we made an account and Samvel submitted a bug issue
Manual	Yes	but more at the beginning
Profile	No	we took a look at it together
Newsletter	No	he activated it
Bookmarks	No	but was aware of it
Notes	Yes	but wasn't aware that it's only for internal usage, see concluding remarks

User information¶

• Which project is worked on currently
  -> ENCHANT
• What is liked/disliked
  -> Overall impression seemed positive
  -> Dates at source were deemed unsatisfactory: it turned out that a value type workaround was used to add dates and than suggested/showed that using connected artifacts would be a more preferable solution
• Ideas for improvement (e.g. improved dashboard for quicker navigation to their tasks)
  -> Sadly we run out of time so postponed it for a later meeting
• Are there known bugs, if yes what prevented reporting
  -> Only one was reported and we created an issue for it: #2348

Concluding remarks¶

• Thanks a lot to Samvel for taking the time for an user research interview
• It was very productive and informative. Sadly, we run out of time after 2 hours but there will most certainly be a follow up meeting.
• One issue that became apparent was the use of notes. They are not part of model and we may should communicate that more clearly -> #2349
  A very useful feature to use instead for annotations is already planned: #2079 Text annotation