Re: User testing of the personalization for symbol

Regrets for tomorrow (Monday's) call, as I will be instructing an all-day
class.

I think the first proposed test - auto-translation to symbols - is perhaps
premature, and additionally, are we not looking for machines to
auto-generate and auto-insert *numeric values*, that helper applications
then furnish "A" symbol from, and not necessarily the Bliss symbol? (To me,
the mapping to an alternative, non-Bliss symbol set is a far more important
thing to demonstrate.)

My concern tracks back to the division of technique versus editorial
accuracy, and while that accuracy is ultra-important for our primary target
audience, at this point we need to be testing simply the mechanism at this
time (IMHO).

The analogy I keep coming back to is image text alternatives: there are 3
techniques (alt, aria-label, aria-labeledby) available to us today, but
none of those techniques have an editorial impact; they can be used to
furnish awesome text alternatives, or something approximating gibberish
(alt="picture"). None-the-less, the Techniques remain viable in either case.

Conflating techniques and editorial accuracy here are inter-related, but
separate issues.

JF

(Sent from my mobile, apologies for any spelling mistakes)

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 7:02 AM lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com> wrote:

> Hi folks
> The easyreading project can do some sample user testing 1st week of
> September.
> There are two groups.
> 1. Swedish symbol users
> 2 German speaking users who are not used to symbols but have cognitive
> impairment.
>
> We should work out what we need befor the tests. To get the ball rolling
>
> 1.Test pages in German and Swedish . They can be based on the "how to make
> a cup of tea" page that Ori showed us but clearly translated. We might
> prefer a different page that is less easy to read.
>
> 2. Methodology. I think we may be able to rely on the reserchers
> methodology. But we could look it over.
>
> 3 What to test. Such as :
> -The page without symbols.
> -The page with automatically inserted symbols such as by machine learning.
> -The page with bliss symbols based on the codes inserted manually.
> -The page with symbols that the use prefers based on the codes inserted
> manually and a mapping file
>
>
> 4.  What we are measuring. I think we need efficiency satisfaction/mood
> and effectiveness- the improvement of how well the instructions were
> understood.
>
> 5. Suggestions from the users/ peir researchers on what else should help
> Let's discuss this more on the call tomorrow
>
> All the best
>
> Lisa Seeman
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