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• Who will serve as experimenters for the test?

Pilot test will be executed by the project group and the final testing by different persons, some of whom are in the target group and some of whom the situation will be explained to. We try to find persons who are not too familiar with computers.

• Who are the users going to be and how are we going to get hold of them?

To meet the estimated target group, the tester should be someone relatively young and moderately skilled in using a computer and web browser. A fellow student in the degree programme might not be the best possible test subject as they can probably adjust to the situation faster.  //who exactly, how?

• How many users are needed?

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The user should be given a task of finding a an apartment in a given area and with some certain budget. Either by:

1. defining Defining only these two criteria, and then observing how the user goes ahead on trying to solve the situation (using unobtrusive approach)
2. dividing the problem to smaller tasks by giving the user instructions on using the different methods like browsing, searching or using the built-in help system. (this would be more interactive) The reason for the apartment search will be that the user needs more space, but is not in a hurry. Therefore, more emphasis should be placed on the quality of the apartment instead of any specific date. Because of this, there should be task where the user checks details of one aprtment thorougly. This might happen automatically, but if the user is not able to find any apartments, some default case should be given to them. do the following in the order that feels most natural
   1. Browse through the apartments matching the size criteria (~few rooms, nothing big)
   2. use Use search to find the apartment
   3. use Use advanced search to find the apartment
   4. check Check help on how to find apartments
   merja: Plase write down also the description of why the user would be looking for the appartment, its easier to do the task when it is contextualised into a goal (you can get it from the task1 at least partially because there you described why the user would be using the site), then open the tasks intot he way that you will dewcribe them to user. ususally the task are given to the users verbaly and in written form in a paper.

• What criteria will be used to determine when the users have finished each of the test tasks correctly?

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• What data is going to be collected and how will it be analysed?

• average Average time from starting to finding a result meeting the criteria either fully or partly
• how How many times the user needs to press back button / feels like they've come to a dead end, or otherwise aimlessly scrolls up and down wihtout knowing what to do (better definition and how to calculate this is needed)
• do Do the seatch or other forms produce errors? does Does the user need to retype everything or some fields?

If possible, on person should be guiding the test user (when necessary, at least in part 2), and another could be simultaneously writing down observations, on a laptop perhaps. The notes can be taken with anything, as long as it does not disturb the test user.

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• One of the testers will make notes how the user acts in the test (either laptop or notebook notes)

• MB: here it means also what way will get data on the questions you placed above, i.e., someone of you will take notes? So one of you observes abd taken notes? in notebook or in an another computer ......
• After these cvorrections it is go for you!