GVU: Usability Engineering Program



	Usability Engineering Program
What is the Program? The Usability Engineering Program has been formed to foster bilateral communication and technology transfer between user interface development professionals (interface designers, human factors experts, usability evaluators) and human factors and usability researchers and scholars. Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization & Usability (GVU) Center invites you to participate in this innovative program of companies and researchers who share a keen interest in applying technological advances in software usability engineering to everyday business problems. Usability Evaluation Research At the GVU Center, a group of researchers is developing and testing state-of-the-art usability methods and tools. As a member of the Program, you will help us evaluate the usefulness of I-Observe, the set of usability evaluation tools being developed by these researchers for improving usability testing of software products and systems. This set of tools, which is being developed in parallel for MacOS, Microsoft Windows, and X Windows, encompasses a range of capabilities including event logging and session recording, analysis, and visualization; i.e., the details of the human-computer interaction session are automatically recorded by the logging tool, analyzed, and displayed visually. Our research is on-going, and is expected to yield increasingly useful tools as the technology becomes more sophisticated. How to Participate Your company/group can participate in the Program for an annual membership donation of $20,000-this money will be used to directly fund research and development in usability engineering and technology. However, if you join GVU's Industrial Affiliates Program-for an annual donation of $30,000-you may join the Usability Engineering Program at no additional cost. (See the GVU Industrial Affiliates Program brochure for additional information.) As a member of the Usability Engineering Program, you will enjoy a high level of interaction with GVU researchers as well as with usability professionals from throughout the industry. The GVU Center makes it easy for you to stay abreast of research through: current usability research reports. a seat on the Usability Engineering Program's advisory board. annual Research Review meetings at Georgia Tech to discuss problems, solutions, and needs with our researchers as well as with professionals from other companies with similar interests in usability engineering. the opportunity for your usability team to be on the leading edge of research and technology, via active collaboration with GVU researchers. Specialized research and development assistance with specific usability engineering issues is available upon request at additional cost. About our Center and Faculty The GVU Center is an interdisciplinary research and teaching center; our faculty and graduate students are drawn from a cross-section of campus units. GVU faculty who are actively engaged in usability and human-computer interaction research include: College of Computing Gregory Abowd Albert Badre Norberto Ezquerra Jim Foley Mark Guzdial Scott Hudson Colin Potts John Stasko School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Christine Mitchell Alex Kirlik School of Literature, Communication & Culture Jay Bolter School of Psychology Richard Catrambone Gregory Corso Neff Walker For more information contact: Albert N. Badre GVU Center Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 USA 404/894-2598 404/894-0673 (FAX) email: usability@gvu.gatech.edu URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/info/usability_program.html

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