COSC1182/83 | USABILITY ENGINEERING | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SECTION 1: PARTICIPANT AND RECRUITMENT SUMMARY

1. Age range and source of participants

Indicate the age range of people you plan to approach. How do you intend to approach people to be involved in the test? (ie. how do you know them?) (up to 50 words)

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1. Explain how you will recruit your participants and invite them to participate

Include in your explanation the precise details of the recruitment method (e.g. direct approach, networking, advertisements/flyers, accessing a database (are you authorized), talking to a group) (up to 50 words)

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1. Explain the steps to be taken to ensure that participation will be purely voluntary

Is there a chance the participants are influenced by a dependency relationship between the researcher and participant? If so, explain the steps taken to ensure voluntary participation (up to 100 words)

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SECTION 2: FACILITATOR SCRIPT

Create or adapt a script to read to the participants at the start of the usability test. Include task-specific questions you might ask at the completion of each task. If you use a publically available script remember to reference your source… [delete this paragraph before submitting]

SECTION 3: SCREENER & PRE-TEST QUESTIONNAIRE

Includes your screener and pre-test questionnaire. Your screener questionnaire should contain sufficient queries to identify your target participant. The pre-test questions (usually included as part of the screener questionnaire) are used to compare characteristics of eligible users. If you adopt an existing questionnaire remember to reference your source… [delete this paragraph before submitting]

SECTION 4: POST-TEST QUESTIONNAIRE

Includes your post-test questionnaire. This might include the System Usability Scale (SUS), task or scenario specific questions to obtain data provided by the participants themselves. If you adopt an existing questionnaire remember to reference your source… [delete this paragraph before submitting

                                                                                     

 SECTION 5: CONSENT FORM

Usability test consent form

Please read and sign this form.

We are Usability Engineering students at RMIT University under Dr. Alexandra Uitdenbogerd. We are asking you to be in a study to help us determine the usability of [website name] for a student project on Usability Testing. 

Feel free to ask any questions to us that you have before or during the test. The usability test should not exceed [fill in the minutes] minutes in length.

In this usability test:

• You will be asked to perform certain tasks on a website.
• You will be asked to fill in a pre-test and post-test questionnaire.
• You will be recorded for purpose of later playback

Participation in this usability study is voluntary. You can withdraw your consent to the experiment and stop participation at any time. Any information that is obtained will remain confidential and will be disclosed only to teaching staff.

If you have any questions after today, please contact Sandra Uitdenbogerd at 9925 2246.

Participant Consent

I have read and understood the information on this form and had all of my questions answered. I will agree to participate. I consent to the use of data gathered during the course of this study through the questionnaires, and I understand that I may discontinue participation at any time.

SECTION 6: USER TASK DESCRIPTIONS

Task Name: add task name here

Objective
Scenario
Dependencies
Estimated Length
Possible Solution
Starting Point
Measuring Success

SECTION 7: USER TASK SHEETS (for participants)

Create the user tasks on the following pages (ie. one task per page). Keep the scenarios and tasks brief and include all information that the participant might need to complete the tasks. Make the font size and layout easy to read… [delete this line before submitting

Task 1:

Write your tasks in large font so that users can easily read it…

Task 2:

Write your tasks in large font so that users can easily read it…

SECTION 8: SOURCE DOCUMENTS

If you use templates from a source, reference that source here… [delete this line before submitting

Section 2: Test Summary

Test summary questions were adapted from parts of the CHEAN Ethics Application Form for Negligible Risk.

Section 5: Consent Form

The consent form was adapted from two sources: