Kieran Lal wrote:
Here is the general outline of the plan. [snip] *1) Conduct Audience research* *[snip]* *3) Develop prototype interfaces and iteratively test with users *
[snip] Finally, we are going to require distributed video and audio capture set-up so that our usability testers can interact with users around the world and see in real time the issues users experience. People with skills in setting up video and audio capture can help.
A daunting task indeed. I am sure your experts know of this commercial package, but it is worth putting on the table: http://techsmith.com/products/morae/default.asp TechSmith has been around for years, having grown their company from the success of Snagit, a screen capture utility. We regularly use Camtasia for streaming audio/slide presentations, etc. Camtasia is, bar none, brilliant and worth every cent even if you pay full price. As a non-profit R&D lab we got a discount. The educational discounts are even better. Morae is more expensive than Camtasia by a factor of about four, but it is designed exactly for what you are describing above. I have never used Morae, but hope to someday soon as we'll be doing something similar to the above in our applied research. So while I cannot speak to Morae directly, I can say that Camtasia is brilliant and worth far more than it costs. --Sohodojo Jim-- -- Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky Founders and Research Directors Sohodojo - http://sohodojo.com