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Another design choice was that we did not implement user accounts.  While this does limit the amount of social interaction user would have on this site, it does not prevent the user's experience for the main tasks.  While many of the possible tasks in the site are social, these are not the primary focus of the site's interface.  Our implementation has a single user, and supplies enough scenarios to give that single user the experience of the three defined user types (i.e., tournament administrator, player, and administrator+player). 

Evaluation

Describe how you conducted your user test. Describe how you found your users and how representative they are of your target user population (but don't identify your users by name). Describe how the users were briefed and what tasks they performed; if you did a demo for them as part of your briefing, justify that decision. List the usability problems you found, and discuss how you might solve themUser testing was done with volunteers from the general MIT student population.  Users were given a short briefing and scenario tasks to perform as described below.  There was no demo included and users had no prior exposure to the website and Bracketracker as a whole.

User Testing Description:

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