Diary of Activities

Date Activities Number of Hours
1/2/01
  • Topic approved by Dr. Joyce
  • 0
1/4/01
  • Set up project website
  • Ordered Rubin's and Nielsen's books
  • 2
  • 0
1/11/01
  • Completed "Plan of Study"
  • 1
1/14/01
  • Completed "Outline of Paper"
  • Updated "Plan of Study" webpage
  • Updated "Outline of Paper" webpage
  • Read pages 1- 50 of Rubin's book
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
1/15/01
  • Read pages 51 - 118 of Rubin's book
  • 1.5
1/16/01
  • Read pages 119 - 212 of Rubin's book
  • 1.5
1/17/01
  • Read pages 213 - 255 of Rubin's book
  • 0.5
1/20/01
  • Completed Rubin's book (pages 256 - 314)
  • Read pages 1 - 48 of Nielsen's book
  • Updated Bibliography web page
  • 0.75
  • 0.75
  • 0.25
1/21/01
  • Read pages 49 - 122 of Nielsen's book
  • 1
1/22/01
  • Read pages 123 - 164 of Nielsen's book
  • 0.5
1/23/01
  • Finished reading Nielsen's book (pages 165 - 268)
  • Updated Plan of Study and Bibliography web page
  • 1.5
  • 0.25
1/27/01
  • Wrote Sections 1.1 & 1.2 of Chapter 1
  • 4
1/28/01
  • Wrote Sections 1.3 of Chapter 1
  • Updated Outline web page with name change of Section 1.3
  • Updated Bibliography web page
  • 3
  • 0
  • 0.25
1/30/01
  • Changed some things in Chapter 1 (per Dr. Joyce's suggestions)
  • Updated Plan of Study page
  • Added Chapter 1 to Downloads Page
  • 1
  • 0
  • 0.25
1/31/01
  • Developed plan for Usability Testing
  • 0.5
2/3/01
  • Created the Test Plan
  • Created the Pretest Questionnaire
  • Created the Post-test Questionnaire
  • Created the Task sheets
  • Created the Data Form
  • Performed Usability Testing on 1 tester
  • 5
  • 0.5
  • 0.5
  • 0.5
  • 0.25
  • 1
2/4/01
  • Performed Usability Testing on 2 more testers
  • 2
2/5/01
  • Began to outline the structure of the U.T. Report
  • Began to analyze data
  • 1
  • 1
2/10/01
  • Began to fill in Summary Data Sheets
  • 3
2/10/01
  • Finished filling in Summary Data Sheets
  • Summarized answers to Post-test Questionnaires
  • 1
  • 2
2/12/01
  • Transcribed comments from debriefings
  • Finished analyzing data
  • Began writing Usability Report
  • 1
  • 2
  • 1
2/14/01
  • Wrote Findings and Discussion Section of Usability Report
  • 2
2/15/01
  • Completed Usability Report
  • 3
2/16/01
  • Made changes to Usability Report per Dr. Joyce's suggestions
  • Changed Outline web page to reflect format of Usability Report
  • 3
  • 0.25
2/19/01
  • Added Usability Report to Downloads Page
  • Updated Plan of Study web page
  • Did some research at the library (looked at IEEE software magazine)
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 2
2/20/01
  • Researched Heuristic Analysis on the Internet
  • Started to write "Heuristic Analysis" section of Chap 2
  • 0.5
  • 0.5
2/22/01
  • Worked on "Heuristic Analysis" section (2.1) of Chap 2
  • 1.5
2/23/01
  • Finished 2.1 section of Chap 2
  • Finished 2.2 & 2.3 sections of Chap 2
  • 1
  • 4.5
2/24/01
  • Finished 2.4 - 2.7 sections of Chap 2
  • 7
3/1/01
  • Started to write Chap. 3
  • 0.5
3/2/01
  • Started to write Section 3.1 of Chap 3
  • 1
3/3/01
  • Finished Section 3.1 of Chap 3
  • Started working on Section 3.2 of Chap 3
  • 3
  • 2
3/4/01
  • Finished Section 3.2 of Chap 3
  • Revised Test Plan
  • Finished Section 3.3 of Chap 3
  • 1.5
  • 0.5
  • 1
3/5/01
  • Finished Section 3.4 of Chap 3
  • 2
3/6/01
  • Uploaded Revised UT Report (with revised Test Plan)
  • Uploaded finalized Chapter 3
  • Updated Chapter 2 per Dr. Joyce's suggestions
  • Updated the Bibliography web page
  • Updated the Plan of Study web page
  • Updated the Outline web page
  • Updated the Download web page
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 1
  • 0.5
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
3/7/01
  • Uploaded finalized Chapter 2
  • Updated the Bibliography web page
  • Updated the Plan of Study web page
  • Updated the Download web page
  • 0.25
  • 0.5
  • 0
  • 0
3/9/01
  • Re-organized outline for Chapter 4
  • 0.5
3/11/01
  • Began to write Section 4.1
  • 3
3/12/01
  • Finished Section 4.1
  • Began work on Section 4.2
  • 2
  • 1
3/13/01
  • Finished Section 4.2
  • 2
3/16/01
  • Uploaded Chapter 4 to Downloads web page
  • Updated Outline web page
  • Updated Bibliography web page
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 0
3/17/01
  • Reorganized outline for Chapter 5
  • Worked on Section 5.1
  • 0.5
  • 3
3/18/01
  • Worked on Section 5.1
  • 1
3/19/01
  • Finished Section 5.1
  • 0.5
3/20/01
  • Worked on Section 5.2
  • 1.5
3/22/01
  • Finished Section 5.2 & 5.3
  • 3
3/23/01
  • Reorganized outline for Chapter 6
  • 0.5
3/25/01
  • Edited Chap 5 per Dr. Joyce's suggestions
  • 0.5
3/26/01
  • Uploaded final version of Chapter 5 to web page
  • Updated Bibliography web page
  • Updated Outline web page
  • Updated Plan of Study web page
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
3/30/01
  • Worked on Section 6.1
  • 1
3/31/01
  • Completed Chapter 6
  • 10
4/2/01
  • Uploaded final version of Chapter 6 to web page
  • Uploaded updated version of Usability Report to web page
  • Updated Bibliography web page with Chap 6 references
  • Updated Outline web page
  • Updated Plan of Study web page
  • Developed "Abstract"
  • Updated Bibliography web page with other refs used in project
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 0
  • 1
  • 1
4/3/01
  • Made changes to Abstract per Dr. Joyce's suggestions
  • Finalized "Abstract"
  • Worked on "History of Study"
  • Finalized "History of Study"
  • Updated the Plan of Study web page
  • Updated Outline web page
  • Uploaded "Abstract" and "History of Study" to web page
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 1.5
  • 0
  • 0.25
  • 0
  • 0
4/5/01
  • Finished "Lessons Learned"
  • Finished "Chapter Overview"
  • Finished "Glossary"
  • Finalized "Bibliograpy" for final report
  • Uploaded "Bibligraphy" to web page
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 0.5
  • 0.5
  • 0.25
4/7/01
  • Finalized "Lessons Learned"
  • Finalized "Chapter Overview"
  • Finalized "Glossary"
  • Updated the Plan of Study web page
  • Uploaded all 3 docs to Downloads web page
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0.25
  • 0.25
4/8/01
  • Created Table of Contents for Guide
  • Created Table of Contents for Final Report
  • Finalized Final Report
  • 0.5
  • 0.5
  • 2



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