Using the Livescribe Pen for Usability Studies
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Prepared by: Daniel Berlin – Experience Research Director September 21, 2011 UPA Boston Lightning Talks Using the LiveScribe Pen for Usability Notes
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Transcript of Using the Livescribe Pen for Usability Studies
Prepared by: Daniel Berlin – Experience Research Director September 21, 2011 UPA Boston Lightning Talks
Using the LiveScribe Pen for Usability Notes
Today’s Presentation
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• What does it do?
• Notes on taking notes
• Other features
• Challenges
• Demonstration
What does it do?
• Records audio while you take notes
• That’s basically it
• Why is this so handy for usability researchers?
• Capturing quotes and video
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Rec/Pause/Stop - Control recording
- Usefulness: 100% - Start/stop sessions
Jump - Skip 10 seconds
- Usefulness: 50% - Rarely listen from pen
Bookmark - Mark the audio for later review
- Usefulness: 50% - Prefer written bookmark
Jump to position - Quasi-scrubber
- Usefulness: 0% - Prefer to click on text
Playback speed - Umm… playback speed
- Usefulness: 85% - Good for fast talkers
Volume - Pen volume
(not recording volume) - Usefulness: 100% - Mute your pen!
Menu Controls - Navigate the on-pen
menus - Usefulness: 30% - Rarely use on-pen menus
Notes on taking notes
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There is Yesh: Hebrew for “there is” - it’s just quicker
Finding - Big star stands out when skimming notes
Quote marker and scrubber - Prefer to not move my pen to the bottom of the page to add a bookmark - Line creates your own scrubber for the quote
Other features
• Creates a “Pencast PDF”
• Writing follows the audio, just like in the LiveScribe software, but in a PDF
• Connects to Evernote (yay!) and Facebook (who cares?)
• Need a premium Evernote account to upload large files (boo!)
• Shares “Pencasts” on Facebook
• Obligatory iPhone & iPad app
• Used to view Pencasts, including those published by others
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Challenges
• Well, you’ve all seen my handwriting now
• Not fun to spend more than a few minutes trying to discern a sentence
• Pen ink doesn’t last
• Refills are small, but readily available
• Only rollerball tips are available
• Have to write on the microdotted paper
• But, you can print your own
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Demonstration
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