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FTA: "Bars are wonderful at segmenting by demographic. Match the bar you’re going to with the user population you want to target. Different bars will produce slightly different results but the variation is not huge."
Yeah, I don't know a bar frequented by people interested in the Semantic Web or web-crawling.
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I believe there's at least one website review service that is build on top of Mechanical Turk, if that helps any.
Thanks, that's good to know. I know someone once mentioned using Mechanical Turk and that those sometimes ended up being their most loyal users, but I cannot recall the context. Has anyone used these services and what results did you see?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785489
I call BS on this. It has no usage what so ever. You can't test for success you can only monitor it.
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Yeah, I don't know a bar frequented by people interested in the Semantic Web or web-crawling.
Doesn't sound like a consumer application. Given that your profile mentions 80legs, I think you're in the B2B space.
It's good to see how usability testing is becoming de-mythologized these days; all of us should keep in mind, for current and future program development, that you really don't need a very sophisticated apparatus.
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I believe there's at least one website review service that is build on top of Mechanical Turk, if that helps any.
Thanks, that's good to know. I know someone once mentioned using Mechanical Turk and that those sometimes ended up being their most loyal users, but I cannot recall the context. Has anyone used these services and what results did you see?
I wonder if that last bit is intentionally a double-entendre. Especially since the proposed environment involves a bar.
It's an interesting technique, and I'll definitely keep the strategy in mind for future endeavors.
What other types of guerrilla testing have people tried before? This sounds like a fairly witty idea for gathering user interaction information, but I wonder if it's actually functional.
I call BS on this. It has no usage what so ever. You can't test for success you can only monitor it.
Why no usage what so ever? Any process of getting user's feedback is better than doing nothing. We are so skewed of using our own apps that we think all is perfect. Nothing ever is. I think its a great idea how to get more usage data. If I try it I will let you know how it went. I am thinking of using some screenrecording software like SilverBackApp to archive and analyze results later when not drunk :) Janusz Founde…
Start off approaching a group of the same sex as you so that the encounter isn’t sexualized. Next, move on to a mixed sex group and then finish the night with an opposite gender interaction so you get a nice demographic spread. I wonder if that last bit is intentionally a double-entendre. Especially since the proposed environment involves a bar. It's an interesting technique, and I'll definitely keep the strategy in…
As a strategy for picking up women, this is somewhere down the bottom in terms of effectiveness. As it turns out, asking someone to participate in a user study is about the least sexiest thing imaginable.