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Hello, i am Lilia Galyautdinova, i m a student of DAP05s group of Media Engineering programm in Metropolia UAS. Subject of my final thesis is Usability Research of Tube 2.0. Synopsis is here -->

Below is preliminary table of content for the thesis.


 * ABSTRACT **
 * LIST OF TERMS AND DEFINITIONS **
 * INTRODUCTION **

**1.1 What is Usability?** (basics of the Usability ) · why its needed **written** · history I would leave this off since it is hard to tell it in sensible and short manner **written** · definitions from diff authors somehow you have to bring about why the authors you use and the concepts you want to describe, you cannot tell all **written partially** · aspects/components What do you mean by this? · goals **1.2 Design/Usability Approaches:** (overview of the approaches- below they are not yet classified, just a list. More in detail I describe – User-Centered) * ?? I guess here I also say that the testing is based on user-centered approach ?? MB: Isn't testing always part of user-centered approach, if you can somehow emphasise the user part good, however I am not sue if can say that from the project it still is quite traditional in involving the users · Anthropomorphic Approach · Cognitive Approach · Empirical Approach · Predictive Approach · User-Centered **written** · Usage-Centered · User-scenario · Discount Usability (J Nielsen) **1.3 Methods:** (overview of the main methods) · User based **written** · Expert based * ?? do I have to describe all methods, or only once used in the research?? I would describe only those relevant to you and guide the reader to read him/her self about the rest of the methods * ?? where to justify the choice of methods used: in this chapter or in the practical part –Testing chapter?? I would mention some points already here and more in the testing chapter, here short of points that belong to the methodology and approaches, e.g. that "usually in user-centred approaches these methods are used and so will be here in this research".... and so on.
 * 1 THEORY PART **

**1.4 Improvement design** //(if I find something valuable)// **1.5 Specifics of Intranets design** //(if there will be enough information, by now I have two articles)//

**2 TESTING PART** **2.1 Research Logic/Procedure** · Goal (of the whole research) · Product description (basic information about the system, what is it for, by whom created, where used by users) · Users (general description of the user groups) · Test Phases: § 1st Phase: Development testing o Goal and Objectives o Participants o Methods - card sorting - survey o Procedure o Results //(// * ?? can I combine chapters Results and Proposals, so each solution will be after the resul I think we can figire this out when younstrat to write about it, i.e. how it seems to start to form //)// o Proposals/Solutions (my proposals – what was accepted, what not, why, and the confirmed proposal)

§ 2nd Phase: User Interface testing o Goal and Objectives o Participants o Methods - experiment - thinking aloud - observation - etc o Results o Proposals/Solutions


 * 3 CONCLUSION **
 * 4 DISCUSSION **

Looking forward for comments and feedback. Sorry I was very late with this, but too many things kept coming and coming