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This page contains guidelines for conducting user interviews and a Discussion Guide which outlines topics of interest that we would like to cover in the interviews.
Guidelines
Discussion Guide
- Introduce ourselves
- What kind of work do you do and how do you use Cytoscape?
- What parts of the system do you use most?
- Do you spend most of your time :
- editing networks,
- setting visual attributes,
- editing attribute data,
- working with plugins, etc
- Do you spend most of your time :
- How do you run (start) cytoscape
- running a command line script,
- double-clicking an icon, menu item).
- Is this easy for you?
- Is this how you run other programs you use on a regular basis?
- What parts of the system do you use most?
- Installation experience.
- User interface and usability. Are the GUI features intuitive?
- Do the menus make sense?
- Do you like cytopanels (i.e. frames within frames, or separate windows)?
- Is the relationship of the graph model to attribute data to visualization clear?
- Is the mapping of network data to visual attributes easy?
Performance & responsiveness: Operations on large networks too slow?
- Features: which are useful? useless?
- Are there any features that you do NOT use? If so why?
- Are there any features that you find confusing or particularly annoying?
- Plugins: Are they easy to use?
- Do plugins work for you? Are they easy to use and integrate with cytoscape?
- Can you suggest other people that we might want to interview?