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Tools for doing functional, soulful user experience, interaction, and usability research. If it’s related to behavior, it’s on here. We’ve assembled this over the years from our own use, UX Booth, Liz Bacon’s list, Craig Tomlin’s list, and magic. None of these companies have paid us for this placement. Yell @ethnio or comment to get […]

Ministudie: Trick or Tweet: How Usable is Twitter for First-Time Users? (SURL was initiated in the Fall 1998 under the direction of Barbara S. Chaparro who has over 19 years of experience designing and evaluating user interfaces and conducting research in human-computer interaction (HCI). The goal of the lab is to provide usability services and research to the software development community and to train students on HCI with real-world projects.)

Seeing Machines has been creating advanced eye tracking algorithms since the company was founded in 2000. faceLAB 5 is the latest release of our flagship eye tracking system and features significant improvements aimed at making it easier for researchers to objectively measure human behavior in a wide range of operational conditions and research settings.

Tobii eye tracking systems enable you to efficiently obtain valid and reliable eye tracking research results, by being easy to use, unobtrusive, and highly accurate and precise. The Tobii Studio eye tracking software provides a comprehensive platform for recording, observation, analysis and visualization in heat maps and gaze plots.

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Optimizing the interaction As a usability professional, ergonomist or HCI researcher, you often need to study people interacting with products or interfaces in a natural environment.

"This work describes an eye tracking study of the e-learning system Moodle outlining how Moodle’s learning materials are explored, selected and processed. The goal of this study was to investigate several cognitive variables and the exploratory learning processes itself. The experiment addressed research objectives such as the individual order of selecting learning material, the visual scanning of Moodle's environment, the importance of "Gestalt laws" respectively rules of pre-attentive perception, the influence of the involvement-factor as well as usability aspects. "

"Usability practitioners often rely on research participants' verbal reports to better understand the user experience. These reports can be collected either during or after task execution, with each approach entailing unique benefits and limitations. This note presents a framework for using eye tracking data to "trigger" when and how moderators probe participants for verbal comments during task execution to supplement or elaborate participant-initiated comments. A preliminary case study suggests that this approach affords a level of efficiency and effectiveness difficult to achieve with retrospective verbalization or without the use of eye tracking. The hope is that practitioners will be encouraged to use and refine this method for the benefit of the field."

These reports are based on 2 rounds of usability studies with real users, reporting how they actually used a broad variety of iPad apps as well as websites accessed on the iPad.

Normally, it wouldn't be worth doing a new study this soon: usability guidelines change very slowly because they derive from human behavior, not technology. However, in this case, it's reasonable to conduct new research now, a year after the iPad launch.

Pfeiffer Consulting hat in der Vergangenheit bereits Studien zur Benutzerfreundlichkeit von Software veröffentlicht. So verglich es etwa Adobes CS4 mit der Vorgängerversion und Windows XP/Vista mit Mac OS X. Das Unternehmen hat 2012 mit der Entwicklung "objektiver Kriterien für die Beurteilung der User Experience" begonnen. Erstes Ergebnis ist der Entwurf eines Frameworks zur Bewertung der Benutzerfreundlichkeit von Tablets. Dessen Methodik habe sie auch bei der jetzigen Untersuchung verwendet, sagte die Firma auf Anfrage. (ck)

The Usability Lab provides an environment for the evaluation of our interaction designs and visualization techniques. It is equipped with high-end testing equipment including a Seeingmachines faceLAB eyetracking system and the Noldus Observer software.