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Desktop Environment User Interface Surveys

Submitted by khanreaper on Tue, 2005-03-29 12:28. Usability
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Reading over GNOME's desktop-devel mailing list and KDE's Dot News, I stumbled across two sets of user interface and satisfaction surveys that inquire into users think about GNOME and KDE's offerings. The organization performing the inquiry is the Human Aspects of Software Engineering (HASE) group over at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

I have to be candid in saying that I am surprised to see that a link to the surveys never made it here to, so I am including the links below for those who are interested in participating:

Useless

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-03-30 10:32.

Isn't this sort of data fairly useless? The data it produces will be very vague - "GNOME users are happier than KDE users?".

Also, self-reporting is generally pretty inaccurate. I remember reading research comparing people performing the same task with a keyboard based interface and a GUI. When asked to guess which had taken them less time, the users said they felt the keyboard method was faster than the GUI, but the stopwatch showed that the GUI was actually faster. People's perceptions can actually be very different from reality.

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