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SMW+ Usability status
Welcome to the usability status site in the SMW+ User Forum. This site is dedicated to document and communicate the SMW+ usability activities. On this site you will find a description of our usability testing process, the SMW+ user roles, reports of usability evaluations, links to mockups and other usability releated topics.
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Usability report: Batch Processing |
| September 15, 2011 by User:Markus_nitsche | |
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The new Batch Processing extension allows our users to add, edit and remove annotations from a large amount of articles without any need to touch each article independently [...] |
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Usability study: Quick ontology editing with Tabluar Forms |
| September 15, 2011 by User:Markus_nitsche | |
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Tabular Forms is a SMW+ feature which allows for rapid creation of annotated articles. In this study, we illuminate how this feature could be extended in order to allow for quick and easy ontology creation. [...] |
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Usability report: Usability recommendations for the Ontology Browser |
| September 15, 2011 by User:Claudia | |
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This article contains the results of a heuristic evaluation of the Ontology Browser and introduces Usability recommendations based on these findings [...]. |
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Usability report: UI Design for editing categories and properties |
| August 26, 2011 by User:Claudia | |
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This article describes a way to simplify the important process of annotating and editing categories and properties in the viewing mode. [...]. |
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Usability report: UI Wireframe for a new SMW+ skin |
| August 24, 2011 by User:Claudia | |
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Skins are used to customize the look and feel of the wiki. Furthermore, creating a new skin gives the chance to improve the ease of use and learnability of a wiki. This article introduces a wireframe for a new SMW+ skin that takes known usability issues into account [...]. |
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Usability report: UI Design for Tabular Forms Notification System |
| June 21, 2011 by User:Markus Nitsche | |
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Tabular forms allow users to add, edit and delete instances within a query table. There are a couple of issues that can occur while editing, e.g. an instance has been edited by someone else in the meantime, or an entered value is invalid. To supply adequate information, a notification system is required for tabular forms. This article contains a design for this notification system [...]. |
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Usability report: Heuristic Evaluation of the Deployment Framework Webinterface |
| June 10, 2011 by User:Markus Nitsche | |
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This article contains the results of a heuristic evaluation of the deployment framework webinterface. It discusses design and functionality improvements for this new feature [...]. |
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Usability report: Heuristic Evaluation SMW v1.5.3 |
| April 13, 2011 by User:Markus Nitsche | |
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This article lists the results of an heuristic evaluation to assess two upcoming features of SMW 1.5.3: Tabular Forms and Faceted Browsing (Release date: 04/2011) [...]. |
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Usability testing report: Collaboration Extension 1.3 (pre release) |
| November 16, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article lists the results of an usability testing session to assess the overall usability of a pre release of the Collaboration Extension 1.3 (Release date: 12/ 2011) [...]. |
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Usability recommendations for RichMedia Extension 1.4 |
| November 04, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article comprises usability recommendations for the RichMedia Extension 1.4 [...]. |
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Usability testing report: Create new article in SMW+ |
| October 22, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article lists the results of an usability testing session to assess the overall usability of different user interface storyboards to create an new article in SMW+ [...]. |
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Usability recommendations for rule building in the ontology browser |
| October 14, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article lists an alternative way to create rules in SMW+ [...]. |
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User Interface Mockups: Create new article in SMW+ |
| October 8, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article lists several design alternatives, how new articles could be created in SMW+. These mockups will then be evaluated by real users in a usability testing session [...]. |
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Usability recommendations for an improved auto completion |
| October 1, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article outlines how the SMW+ auto completion could be improved to better support the user. [...] |
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Usability recommendations for the wiki Red link behavior |
| September 24, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This document describes recommendations how the wiki could handle links to non-existing articles (red links) and it also shows the progress of our implementation efforts to integrate an consistent way to handle these links in the SMW+ [...] |
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Usability recommendations for the Semantic Notifications 2.0 |
| September 03, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article comprises usability recommendations for the Semantic Notifications 2.0. [...] |
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Usability recommendations for the Collaboration Extension 1.1. |
| August 17, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article comprises usability recommendations for the Collaboration Extension 1.1. [...] |
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SMW+ User Roles |
| August 05, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This document describes the SMW+ User Roles, including their modeling process and their detailed description. [...] |
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Usability testing report: Improved Query Interface (pre-release) |
| July 12, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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We conducted two usability testing session with the pre release of the upcomming version of the query interface. The following article list the results [...] |
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SMW+ Usability testing process |
| June 21, 2010 by User:Sascha | |
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This article explains why an usability testing process is so important for the SMW+ product and how we are conducting such tests. We are presenting our usability testing process in a compact way, complemented by an example to show how the process is actually conducted [...] |
