I come out of User Requirements Analysis rather than software engineering. I would like to know if anybody has conducted any research into ways to increase the number of Tribler users (apart from improving the product software).
One obvious idea would be making the home page available in different languages. Of course, this would require a lot of work and should not be undertaken unless research indicates that there is a real need for it.
Hi Conradpoons,
Great to see your interest in Tribler popularity.
Given our constrained resources we focus on Youtube-like requirements & features. For the coming year, I think, we should focus on polishing and debugging.
Yeah, supporting multiple languages would boost usage I think (L10N-lang).
In the past we’ve conducted several user studies. Usabilities studies from 7 years ago:
http://w.libswift.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/userResearch/Tribler5.0_usability_test_C4.pdf
http://w.libswift.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/userResearch/Tribler5.0_usability_test_C2.pdf
6 years ago broader user/GUI study (archived pages with funky URL):
http://w.libswift.org/trac/wiki/Tribler5/Vision
http://w.libswift.org/trac/wiki/triblerGUI
http://w.libswift.org/trac/wiki/userResearch
Hope this helps, j
Hello J,
I fully understand that the core development team will have their hands full with polishing and debugging the existing product. What I had in mind was an ancillary research project. Perhaps, something that might be undertaken by a PhD student or volunteer user groups. The research on usability looks fine but my perspective is much broader (I used to teach information systems in a management faculty, not a computer science department). One possibility is that Tribler might find users amongst people who presently do not use torrents at all, simply because they can not understand English.