Mapping Modernism Usability Test 
11:22. 2 old women: look at the table, see nothing, go away (2 secs). 
11:28. Young hype man: same. 
11:28. Another one: same. 
11:32. Young woman just passes by, looks briefly at the TV. 
11:45. Young woman comes in front, looks at icons. Touches icon. Allows 4s for answer, then looks at the TV and drags a card. Explores with one artist only (Laszlo), then removes card. Someone who watched her do then steps in front of table, looks at TV and goes away. 1-2 min. 
11:50. Young woman looks at TV screen for 2-3 seconds then walks away. 
11:55. Previous girl who played with installation (at 11:45) looks a bit bored going out from another room, comes back to the table. Uses only one artist at a time, reads details. Breuer. Mies. Once, recognition does not follow. She gently tilts marker until recognized. 1-2 min. 
11:57. Old couple. Understands immediately how to use the table. Laszlo. Removes marker, keeps it in hand, reads. Puts it on a other category. Removes it. Puts on another cat. Brandt. They go away — why? 1 min 
11:59 Young girl tries to use. Removes marker after activating one cat. Aalto. Removes marker, puts it back in place. 2 young men had watched her, now use installation. Another one comes in. They use only one marker at a time!!! Wait for each other to have finished. Very linear use :( moreover, they don't read content that much, more interested in interaction. Go away after Laszlo and its often encountered "no connection". 4 mins 
12:02. Man has not seen use, no screensaver active. Reads info on tv and goes away. 
12:03. Woman comes in, drags one marker on the black part, does not see any reaction on TV, goes away. 10s 
12:03. 2 women come in, look at the markers and table, TV, take markers but don't seem to understand anything. One goes away after 25s. Other one is shown how to use by first girl who had tried it. Another woman comes in (one from 11:50). They all have only one person interacting and wait for the other one to have finished to use another marker. 3 mins.  
Girl from 11:55 comes back to take a look again. 
Everyone puts back markers in place (indeed, using only one marker at a time…). 
12:08. 2 Old women come in, look at table, read instruction, go away. 
12:08. Young woman comes near the table, looks at the legend, walks away. 
12:09. Same. 
Over this period (from 11:00 to 12:10), five other people walked in the hallway and totally ignored the table. 
12:10. I've now placed 3 markers on the table. Mies, Breuer, Mendhelson. 
12:11. Young woman comes in. Looks at table. Moves one marker around. 2 women who had previously skipped the table now come and stay hooked. Still only one person interacting though, the others read. Another woman who had skipped now comes. Says "Nice play!". First operator walks away (after 3 mins). Now they try putting/removing markers. Once second operator leaves, everyone leaves. 4 mins. They continue talking about it while leaving (leave museum). They have left 3 markers on the table. 
12:16. Previous girl comes in. Moves markers around, not on categories. Now categories again. Conflict for legends. She removes one marker from the categories to read the latest one she had put on the legends. 1 min. Left 2 markers on table, very close to each other. 
12:21. Old couple walks near, one sight to the installation, go to the next room. 
12:25. Same. 
12:25. Same. 
12:28. Old man comes in front of table. Looks at markers. Then TV. Reads instruction. Moves marker on categories. Reads. Wagenfeld, so very few connections. Still tries until he finds one connection. Now moves marker above. Moves another marker in. 3 mins. 
12:39. Lady walks in front of installation. Looks at it while walking, but does not stop. 
12:40. Man comes in, gets it immediately. Moves one marker, then another one. Categories flicker. He goes away. 1min. 
12:41. Young boy (9yo) walks in. He moves markers around very fast. Seems to be testing the limits of the machine. Goes away saying he did not understand anything (but he does not speak English). Goes back to it. 
12:43. Table shutdown?? Reactivision still on. Couldn't see if Quartz was still on. Restart makes it work again, no problem. 
12:45. Young boy still there. Tries to move markers around. Looks only at the table, not at the TV (because of the language). 
12:48. Guy who had previously ignored installation looks at boy playing with it. Does not try it though. 
12:51. Shutdown again!! 5 artists on table. I think Quartz crashes. 
12:52. Relaunch works well, but when trying to demo, crashes again. Putting and removing one artist only seems to only add it. After 3 times, crashed. 
12:57. Now had 3 crashes in a row. It seems that after 4 artists on the table at once, there's a crash. 
13:02. Old man uses table very well. Linear and one artist at a time, but understands very well how it works. Puts every marker back in place. 3 mins. 
13:05. Couple tries to use it. Man says he does not know who are these people. 
13:08. Crash (too many markers). I reboot. They wait. 
13:10. They try to understand what the installation offers. They struggle with the categories system: "let's see what happens with only one...". They now got the categories system (40s). They now have put several markers on the categories, and don't understand why it flickers. 
Over this period (from 12:10 to 13:10), five other people walked in the hallway and totally ignored the table. 
 
Proposals: 
- explanation on both screens about the goal of installation 
- have texts in Finnish and Swedish too, just like all other parts of exhibition 
- animations on table to show how to use it (hands moving over the markers, grabbing them and putting them on the main area) 
- show the legends only when a marker is on the table, to avoid the "touch table" behavior 
- show animations on TV 
- Breuer - Avant-Garde: problem with caption 
- change current instruction text!! Pushes to using one marker at a time only. Should read the current instruction only once markers have been placed on the table already.