Quantitative evaluation
Materials and Links
In Class Exercise
Experiment:
The experiment will look at the average time it takes to copy text between documents.
- Bring up two Google Docs windows with supplied text in one window and a blank document in
the
other
- Copy each line of text (one at a time) from one window to the other
- Conditions:
- Select text with mouse and press ctrl-c, then ctrl-tab, ctrl-v
- Select text with mouse and choose edit->copy menu, then click on other tab and choose
edit->paste
- Train on 3 lines
- Do the test on 10 lines
- Manually measure entire task and divide by 10
- Enter data in shared spreadsheet. Spreadsheet is here.
- Work in pairs with one person timing the other, then switch.