See also EED Usability Testing for a general usability testing process overview
In addition to the planned LPDAAC trip, the following people volunteered to participate in a usability study during the Earthdata Search webinar. See attached spreadsheet for additional information such as name and affiliation.
NSIDC User Services, via Amy Steiker (uso@nsidc.org)
We need to remain flexible here and swap out some of this for either A) more Q&A and interview-type questions or B) more software and EDSC-specific tasks and observation based on what the day-to-day of each participant looks like.
We asked webinar attendees which features they'd most likely to see. These are the answers:
Note: The vast majority of attendees identified themselves as "Researcher/Decision Support- I need the data for my research/application(s)"
We asked webinar attendees what would prevent them from using Earthdata Search today. Note that some of the answers seem to treat the question as hypothetical, i.e. if suchandsuch were a problem I wouldn't use Earthdata Search, regardless of whether suchandsuch actually is a problem. These are the answers, in no particular order:
I will definitely need to practice so that I understand what we just discussed.
I followed Patrick, but I coulnd see any snowcover data in January 2016? (Note: This is potentially a relevancy issue with several very similar-looking collections, only some of which have visualizations)
How to download subsetting for multiple sites?
and where is the multiband radar imagery?? Oh yeah...NASA still does not have radar satellites
access to free tools for processing digital
Note: The vast majority of attendees identified themselves as "Researcher/Decision Support- I need the data for my research/application(s)"