deriving context from users' evaluations to inform software development
The EASAIER project (EASAIER) aims to provide enriched internet-enabled access to a broad range of digital sound and video archives, and as a result, the user base will consist of a very wide and deep constituency with varying and specialized user needs. Ten classical music students at the Royal Academy of Music and Drama, having been given a short introduction to software evaluation, assessed an alpha release of the EASAIER software and their outputs revealed the importance of user context in the process of software development. This short paper details the evaluation model and highlights the key findings revealed when expert musicians but non-expert computer users applied this model to the EASAIER software.
context user evaluation digital music collections