HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)

Summary

This is a Usability initiative started by Ubuntu-Women members and anyone interested in desktop usability performance and improvement can pitch in. Our goal is to help the Ubuntu developers in their efforts to create simple and easy-to-use applications for the desktop.

Initial areas of interest :

Reduce machine-user interaction problems,
Improve user testing by collecting user feedback vis-a-vis select applications,
Co-ordinate with Ubuntu/upstream maintainers to remove usability related bug issues, and
Integrate all data inputs with the visual experts in Ubuntu.

What is Usability

Gnome has a nice document on "why usability is important?" in Gnome applications.

On the web :

Development

Track the specifications at the 2007 UDS at Sevilla for the Feisty+1 release.

Launchpad Product : HCI is registered as a product on Launchpad. If you have joined the UW team on LP you can use it to track/store contributions, file bugs, etc.. Take some time to get familiar with our online tools like Malone (for bug tracking) and track specifications or get tech support in Launchpad and you have a good start.

Join us / Contribute

Use the following mode to contact us, better still join and contribute to the project !

U-W mailing list : Subscribe to the Ubuntu-Women mailing list and use it to discuss or post questions of all kinds relating to HCI. You can share and discuss your ideas for existing projects which interest you particularly.
Ubuntuforums : Forum lovers can talk to us at the Ubuntu-Women section.
Chat : Use the IRC channel, #ubuntu-women on freenode.net for discussions.
Wiki : Use HCI/NewSubpage to suggest ideas.

Resources

Projects

Ideas/Comments

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