Your Usability Toolbox

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World Usability Day Introduction

Dr. Sanda Erdelez, Associate Professor & IE Lab Director

Is usability really so important that it has its own world day? Remember all the things you have seen and tried that weren’t usable (or useful)? Remember all the websites you’ve visited (and departed) that weren’t usable? This introductory presentation will explain how the IE Lab team works on improving information experience through better website usability.

Expert Review

Xin Wang & Jiazhen Wang, IE Lab Coordinators

In this session, we will introduce the usability method of Expert Review.  In an expert review, usability specialists evaluate a web site following established usability principles, known as heuristics. We will explain our expert review process and further explain the main criteria in the heuristics checklist. Additionally, we’ll cover a case study from a previous IE Lab project.   

Lab Tour

IE Lab Staff

A Tour of the Information Experience Laboratory

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Time on Task

Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Senior IE Lab Coordinator

Time on task is one of the major variables to judge usability of information systems. The session will focus on the tricks and tips on how Morae could be used to measure time on task with different usability testing methods, starting from think aloud to individual and group task analysis. 

Focus Group

Anindita Paul, Senior IE Lab Coordinator

The presentation will introduce to the audience the focus group technique that is used in usability studies. It will cover the different approaches that have been used with focus groups as a tool for evaluation; technology that can be used to support the technique and the best practices of the technique.