User testers needed!

Written by Greta Hawes

Key to the idea of a network of Greek myth are the connections built up through blood relations and marriage.

For the past year Yaya Lu, a research student in Computer Science at the Australian National University, has been working to convert our bare-bones data (‘x is child of y’, ‘z is spouse of y’) into a tool capable of displaying the complexities of mythic genealogies. Greek myth is full of strange births and contested information. The challenge is to communicate what is weird about these genealogies but in an intuitive way. For the moment, this tool uses data only from Apollodoros’ Library and Epitome.

You can access her prototype here.

Yaya wants this tool to be as user-friendly as possible, and here is where you can help. She has created a questionnaire to better understand how people use the tool and what they might want from future MANTO initiatives.

You can access this questionnaire here.

All questions are optional; the survey should take 10-30 minutes depending on the length of your answers. Please submit your answers before 8th June 2020.

For enquiries, contact Yaya.lu@anu.edu.au