Profcast Evaluation
May 4th, 2009
Date of project:
- January 2007 – April 2007
Description:
- This evaluation was a semester long project for SI 622: Evaluation of Systems and Services.
- Our team of five evaluated the ProfCast lecture recording software for Dave Chmura at Humble Daisy, a small software development company.
- We first drew a GTN diagram of ProfCast.
- Then we created scenarios and personas to run evaluation test cases.
- We conducted a comparative evaluation of similar products, such as Techsmith’s Camtasia.
- We distributed a survey to all our users and compiled the results.
- We performed a heuristic evaluation of ProfCast using Neilson’s 10 heuristics.
- We performed several formal user tests and documented our results.
- We gave a presentation to our class and our client.
Experience
- This was the major project of my second semester. I learned a number of hands-on usability testing methods. I also worked with a real client, and I was happy to learn that many of our recommendations were incorporated into a future version of ProfCast. Our team was well balanced, and I contributed to all of our deliverables and artifacts, though I played a particularly strong role as a report editor. I also designed the mockups for our GUI recommendations. I was very proud of our final results, and proud that it earned me my first A+ at SI.
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