Title: Xpegia_01 - Xpegia Composer Trial

Welcome to the Xpegia Composer Software Trial The objective of this trial is to collect feedback on the functionality of the Composer software; from installation to creating a multimedia presentation using Composer's special feature. Please follow the step-by-step procedure below and after every procedure, please grade on how easy it was to carry out that procedure and provide additional comments if possible. * denotes mandatory question

COMPOSER 1.X - GUIDED FUNCTIONAL TEST PROCEDURES

Bringing Data Into Composer 1* After installing Composer, start the application. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 2* Comments

3* Drag one or more of the following file types into Composer image, video, sound files. Drag the web page icon from any browser into Composer. Create a composition consisting of about 20-30 notes. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 4* Comments

5* Double-click on any note and see the content presented in the viewer window. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 6* Comments

7* Try each content viewer windows built-in functionalities. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 8* Comments

Organising Information 9* Drag one note icon into another to create a group. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 10 * Comments

11 * Create three or more groups each consisting of five to seven notes per group. Drag one group into another to create parent-child group. Expand both groups fully. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible

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13 * Hover the mouse cursor over a few notes to see the tag content. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 14 * Comments

15 * Select a note by clicking on it and press the key "T" to show the tag window. You can edit the tag information here. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 16 * Comments

17 Optional: edit the tags of a few notes. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 18 Comments

Using the Clustre Feature 19 * Select a node and press "T" key to call up the tag content window. Edit the text in this tag window by adding additional keywords. Close the tag window by clicking the (x) button on the top right or simply hit the Enter key. Repeat this for three notes. Jot down a few keywords after viewing the various tags. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 20 * Comments

21 * Click on the "Clustre" button at the bottom panel of the application window. When the Clustre criteria textbox appears, key in one keyword that you remember. . 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 22 * Comments

23 * Close the Clustre criteria window but clicking the top-right button (x) or simply hit the Enter key. Only notes whose tags contain the keyword you have selected will appear opaque. All other notes will appear faded. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 24 * Comments

25 * After the Clustre criteria window closes, all relevant notes will be attracted together. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 26 * Comments

27 Optional: Try using this feature with other keywords. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 28 Comments

Navigating a Composition 29 * Double-click on any point on the MediaBoard to center the view at that point. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 30 * Comments

31 * Select any note (a selected note has a red border around the note icon) and click on the "Home" button at the bottom panel of the application window. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible

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33 * Using the right-click hold-and-drag to create a selection marquee rectangle. Select a number of notes and groups. Click on the "Home" button at the bottom panel to zoom view to this selection. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 34 * Comments

Using the ContextFlo Feature 35 * Start with a new composition. Go to the application window's top menu and select "New". 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 36 * Comments

37 * Create some notes in the composition by dragging-n-dropping some files as in the previous step. Create a group with a hierarchy consisting of three levels, i.e. parent group->subgroup->subgroup. Make sure all notes are in a group. There is no stranded or individual note on the MediaBoard. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 38 * Comments

39 * Click on the "ContextFlo" button at the bottom panel. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 40 * Comments

41 * Wait for a short moment and select the top-most group note. All other notes should disappear. After a short moment, only the children of this selected group should appear. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 42 * Comments

43 * Select the child group note from this parent group by clicking on it. Make sure the selected note has a red border around it. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 44 * Comments

45 * Now only the children of this subgroup note should appear, its peers should also disappear, including the link back to the parent group. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible

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47 * Select any other note within the hierarchy to see how other notes are obscured to show only the notes related to the selected note. 1 Easily done 2 Done with some small issues 3 Met problems but able to overcome to complete task 4 Unsuccessful, not possible 48 * Comments

SURVEYENDING QUESTIONS

49 * The software is performing as what was described in the tutorial or Help documentation. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 50 * Comments

51 * In general, the software is more attractive than other common software. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 52 * Comments

53 * The software is easy to learn or use. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 54 * Comments

55 * The quality of this software is good. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 56 * What do you think would help improve the quality of this software?

57 * This software is useful for your work in school or at home. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 58 * Comments

59 * The software does not crash easily when you are using it. 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly

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61 * Finding help is easy with this software. E.g. offline documentation and online community, email etc.? 1 Agree Strongly 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Disagree Somewhat 4 Disagree Strongly 62 * Comments

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