User Groups (Form 4 of BASELINE UVA)
Please duplicate this form for each category of user (user group) that your application is targetted at.
Name of User Group:
Special Characteristics: (Describe any special characteristics of this group in not more than 60 words).
Experience of users with the task(s) the application is intended to support:
- none at all or minimal
- part of job specification or occupation of users
- users are exceptionally experienced in the domain the application supports
Experience of users with computers:
- none at all or minimal
- users employ software products regularly
- users are software experts (eg programmers, analysts)
Experience of users with the specific (evaluated) application:
- none at all (ie these users are expected to use the application without training)
- minimal (ie these users will be given an orientation briefing or short course)
- these users employ this product (or similar) regularly
Will this user group participate in the testing? YES / NO
If YES, how did you make contact with the representatives to recruit the users for the evaluation?
- they (or some representatives) are part of the project team or users are from the company’s user panel.
- personal or business contacts or through established user or interest groups
- by random advertisement (in magazines, or the web etc.)
- using professional 3rd party help (eg agency)
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