Ok couple of problems have cropped up.

1. I wont be able to host my focus groups anymore

Given the time left before I need to hand in my Honours project, it doesnt seem like I’ll have very much time to invite users for KT, create accounts, teach the users how to use the system and get them to actually use it (which would take approximately 3 weeks), then later hold the focus group and evaluate what they’ve learnt.

So, in order to make the best of this set back (and after some discussion with Adrian), it seems the next best course of action is to just use JW as the only person in the focus group for this project since we’ve already gone through how to use the system with him and set out a list of questions based on how he used the system to ask in the next meeting.

This set back was the result of my ethics application not going through – since it was returned to me stating that I missed some important details. Oh well, we learn from our mistakes I guess. Now I just need to find solutions to make this project still work. =)

2. Some of my video walkthroughs cant be seen

While contacting JW through KT emails, it seems that he’s been having problems accessing and viewing the walkthroughs that I’ve posted. Initially I suggested that he should update his Adobe Flash Player and that worked but he still couldnt view all the videos – this came with a problem as well because these videos are supposed to help the user make use of the system properly and they didnt need the extra trouble of having to update their software just to view the videos. It’s supposed to make their workload lighter, not give them more work to do.

So I’ve been tinkering about with ishowu hd, trying to lower my data rate. I’ve managed to get it so that 5minutes of video time takes up about 20mb but the problem with this is that while the videos are much smaller in terms of its data rate, it also cuts out a lot of quality so the videos aren’t so clear, especially when trying to read the words.

As a means to find a solution, Adrian has set up the videos widget on KT so all I have to do now is embed the blip.tv file and it should play on the site. However, all I’ve been doing previously is linking images to the blip.tv videos. I wonder if it’ll have any effect on the ability to view the video. So far, I’ve embedded one of the smaller videos onto KT using this widget and while it was able to be uploaded, I’m still not able to watch the video – the player gets stuck while loading.

*five minutes later*

I tried re-loading the page with the video walkthrough and it seems to be working fine now. I’ve decided to set a new category called “Video Walkthrough” as an administrator so I can get all the videos I’ve made grouped together (since they wont all be on the same page anymore). I hope this sorts out my issues with this problem.

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