| Organization/ Company |
Name | Contact | Services | Partners/ Sponsors |
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| Birmingham Institute of Art and Design | User-Lab: Usability Laboratory for Digital Media Design | John Knight John.Knight@uce.ac.uk |
User Profiling, Task Analysis, Contextual Study, Design Workshops, User Workshops, Low Fidelity Prototyping, Usability Inspection, High Fidelity Prototyping, Formative Testing and Summative Testing. | ? |
| Bentley College | Design and Usability Testing Center | |||
| Brown University | Computer Graphics Group | Contact page | Develops human-centered, powerful, and interactive 3D graphics tools for modeling, scientific visualization, telecollaboration, and interactive illustrations. | Sponsors |
| Carleton University | Human Oriented Technology Lab | Contact page | University-based centre for research, education and consulting | Partners |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) | Daniel P. Siewiorek School of Computer Science 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 |
Interdisciplinary community of students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This community is dedicated to research and education in topics related to computer technology in support of human activity and society. | Sponsors |
| City University London | Centre for HCI Design | Contact page People page School of Informatics Northampton Square London EC1V OHB |
The Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design is an independent research centre within the School of Informatics at City University. We are a leading centre in interactive systems research, focusing on two strategic areas: requirements engineering and human-computer interaction. Our research emphasises a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to the design and study of interactive systems | Collaboration |
| Columbia University | Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab | Steven Feiner feiner@cs.columbia.edu |
Projects in Computer Graphics and User Interfaces. | ? |
| Georgia Tech | Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center (GVU) | People page Aaron Bobick Director Phone: 404-894-8591 Fax: 404-894-0673 |
To advance the state of the art of interaction between people, computing machines, and information by developing technologies that naturally reflect the abilities and behavior of people. | Connections |
| Georgia Tech | Center for Human-Machine Systems Research (CHMSR) | Centennial Research Bldg. Rm 254a 400 Tenth St. NW Atlanta, GA 30318 404.894.4321, Dr. Christine M. Mitchell |
The Center for Human-Machine Systems Research (CHMSR) was founded in 1981 for the purpose of studying how humans interact with complex systems. At CHMSR, an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students with backgrounds in engineering, computer science, and behavioral and social sciences pursue research in analysis, modeling, and design of human-machine systems. We use and/or develop techniques and methodologies based on systems engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, psychology, mathematical and computational modeling, and empirical evaluations. | Sponsors |
| IBM | IBM Almaden Research Center | ? | The USER Group's focus is on people using technology, the user experience. Our goal is to improve the ease of use of existing products and explore new paradigms in using computing. Our approach is to understand both human and technological capabilities to invent the future. | ? |
| Indiana University | IU HCI Lab | Andrew Dillon adillon@indiana.edu |
The usability lab at SLIS is a state of the art facility designed to support the systematic observation of human-computer interaction (HCI). With cameras recording users' facial expressions and physical movements, and system responses directly captured by digital recording, the complete process of interaction can be reviewed and analyzed. | ? |
| Indiana University | Usability Consulting Services |
Todd Zazelenchuk |
Projects | ? |
| Michigan State University | Media Interface and Network Design Lab | Frank Biocca biocca@tcimet.net |
"The Media Interface and Network Design Labs (M.I.N.D. Labs) are a
network of state-of-the-art research facilities in communication and human-computer
interaction. Communication and human-computer interaction researchers
conduct rigorous scientific studies of human physical, cognitive, communication,
and organizational performance in computer-based environments."
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| Microsoft | Microsoft usability | Contact page | Microsoft's Usability Group consists of over 120 Usability Engineers with
a wide variety of educational backgrounds, including: human factors psychology,
social psychology, industrial engineering, technical communications, developmental
psychology, information science and computer science. The Usability Group was created in 1988 to bring user-feedback into the design of Microsoft products throughout the development process. By demonstrating the value of user-centered design and providing the appropriate skills and information at the appropriate time, the Usability Group has become an integral part of the product design process at Microsoft. |
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| Microsoft | Microsoft User Interface Research Group | George Robertson ggr@microsoft.com |
Research group focusing on information visualization and multimodal user interaction. | ? |
| MIT | MIT Media Lab | Contact page The Media Laboratory Building E15 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 |
The Media Lab to focuses on the study, invention, and creative use of digital technologies to enhance the ways that people think, express, and communicate ideas, and explore new scientific frontiers. For information on current research activities at the Lab, see the Research section. | Sponsors |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology Information and Access Division | Visualization and Usability Group | Dr. Sharon J. Laskowski Manager (301) 975-4535 laskowski@nist.gov |
VUG conducts research in information visualization, virtual environments, related HCI technologies, and the evaluation of these technologies in order to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of visual displays of information to industry and government. | ? |
| North Carolina State University Libraies |
Usability Research Lab ( URL) |
Kelsey Libner (513-0211) |
The Usability Research Laboratory (URL) has been developed by DLI in cooperation with the Learning Technology Service (LTS), and students and faculty in the technical writing program in the English department. The lab consists of state-of-the-art equipment capable of collecting video, audio, and computer data in real time for observation and analysis. | ? |
| Stanford University | Center for Design Research | People page Larry Leifer Director Center for Design Research 560 Panama Street Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2232 |
The Center for Design Research (CDR) is dedicated to facilitating individual creativity, understanding the team design process, and developing advanced tools and methods that promote superior design and manufacturing of products. | Sponsors on home page |
| Stanford University | Human-Computer Interaction Design | Terry Winograd Department of Computer Science Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9035 winograd@cs.stanford.edu |
Stanford University has HCI-related activities and degree programs in a number of departments, as well as research projects around campus with substantial HCI components. Our core faculty is supplemented by HCI professionals from Silicon Valley industry, who teach courses, advise students, and serve as project mentors. | ? |
| Sun | Sun Usability Labs | Joe Bugental, Manager 650-786-4044 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1601 Willow Road at Bayfront Expwy Menlo Park, CA 94025 james.bugental@eng.sun.com |
Facilities & Services | ? |
| Swinburne University of Technology | SCHIL Usability Laboratory | The Research Manager, SCHIL Usability Laboratory, School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology John St, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia. schilrm@it.swin.edu.au |
SCHIL ( pronounced "skill") is a research centre within the School of Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology. To help fulfil its educational and research objectives SCHIL has set up a well equipped and professionally managed usability laboratory and observation space. As a service to industry, and to help fund the laboratory's staffing and further development, SCHIL makes its laboratory available for commercial hire on a sessional basis. Commercial users of the laboratory include freelance usability consultants, usability professionals in small and large companies, web designers and software developers. |
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| Target Corporation | Target Corporation's Usability Lab (web site?) |
Libby Cecchi Directions to the Target Usability Center |
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| The Open University | Knowledge Media Institute | Milton Keynes Walton Hall MK7 6AA United Kingdom |
Knowledge Media' encompasses a broad programme of research into new learner-centred technologies, including Internet-enhanced collaboration media, multimedia environments for disabled learners, intelligent agents, organisational memories, digital documents, scientific visualisation and simulation tools, informal and formal representations of knowledge - in short, innovative approaches to sharing, accessing, and understanding knowledge. | Sponsors |
| Usability Sciences Corporation | Lab Based Usability Testing |
Two MacArthur Ridge |
Usability Sciences Corporation was founded in 1988 to provide a new type of software testing service targeted at independent software vendors and corporate IS departments. This service called usability testing is designed to help developers of technology understand the users of their technology. | Partners |
| University of California, Berkeley | HCC: Human-Centered Computing |
John Canny |
HCC is a research consortium on Human-Centered Computing. It comprises faculty from computer science, sociology, psychology, SIMS, education, business, linguistics, electrical and mechanical engineering. HCC's goal is to design information systems into human contexts, and to better understand those contexts using computational tools. | ? |
| University of California, San Diego | Distributed Cognition and HCI Lab | Contact page People page Jim Hollan hollan@cogsci.ucsd.edu Department of Cognitive Science (0515) University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 |
Professors Hollan and Hutchins have joined together to create the UCSD Distributed Cognition and Human Computer Interaction Laboratory. Members of our lab are united in the belief that distributed cognition promises to be a particularly fertile framework for designing and evaluating digital artifacts. It extends conceptions of work materials beyond individual interaction and challenges key implicit presuppositions of current views. | See Sponsors on the About Us page |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | Center for Lifelong Learning and Design | Contact
page Francesca Iovine Campus Box 430 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0430 (303) 492-1592 iovine@cs.colorado.edu |
The Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) is part of the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The mission of the center is to establish, both by theoretical work and by building prototype systems, the scientific foundations for the construction of intelligent systems that serve as amplifiers of human capabilities. | ? |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Human-Computer Interaction Group Part of the Advanced Collaborative Systems Lab |
Principal Investigators Mehdi Harandi harandi@cs.uiuc.edu Simon Kaplan kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu |
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| University of Maryland at College Park, | Human-Computer Interaction (HCIL) | Ben Shneiderman hcil-info@cs.umd.edu |
The Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland conducts research on advanced user interfaces and their development processes. Interdisciplinary research teams study the entire technology development life-cycle which includes the initial technology design, implementation issues, and evaluation of user performance. Through this work we have developed new theories, methodologies, and technologies. | Sponsors |
| University of Michigan | Digital Media Commons Usability Lab | Sean DeMonner |
The Usability, Support and Evaluation Lab provides U-M affiliated users and projects access to the Usability Lab in the Duderstadt Center free of charge. The lab is equipped with observation cameras for recording human-computer interactions on two Microsoft Windows computers loaded with specialized software (Morae, Camtasia, JAWS, etc.) | The Usability, Support and Evaluation (USE) Lab |
| University of Minnesota | Digital Media Center | Contact page 212 Walter 117 Pleasant Stree University of Minnesota Twin Cities. (612) 625-5055. dmc@umn.edu. |
Consultations and development assistance. | Affiliations |
| University of Minnesota | Human Factors Research Lab |
Thomas Stoffregen, Director Kinesiology tas@umn.edu 612-625-1007 141 Mariucci Arena 1901 Fourth Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 Phone: 612-626-7521 Fax: 612-625-8867 hfrl@hfrl.umn.edu |
Human Factors is a multidisciplinary research and design endeavor directed to the systematic design and evaluation of human-machine systems. The Human Factors Research Laboratory supports laboratory and field research relating to a diverse array of Human Factors issues The Human Factors Research Laboratory comprises a multidisciplinary team of researchers with extensive academic and industrial research and design experience. The mission of the HFRL is to become an open center of excellence for Human Factors research into the design, evaluation, and use of human-machine systems. The HFRL supports both general (i.e. "basic") and specific (i.e. "applied") research relating to perception and performance in human-machine systems. | ? |
| University of Minnesota | Usability Services |
Alice de la Cova Usability Services Laboratory |
Partnership between the Digital Technology Center and the Office of Information Technology to provide a state-of-the-art facility to serve research, teaching, and administrative computing objectives in human-computer interaction and user-centered design. |
It will be used primarily by the Usability Services team in Enterprise Web Development and by the following academic stakeholder departments: · Digital Technology Center, |
| University of Oklahoma | Human Technology Interaction Center | Randa L. Shehab Director rlshehab@ou.edu |
The mission of the Human-Technology Interaction Center is to establish and maintain a non-profit interdisciplinary organization of research scholars and scientists at the leading edge of inquiry on the interaction of people with modern technologies. The HTI Center will facilitate and advance basic research, applied research, training, and development efforts. In addition, the HTI Center recognizes as part of its mission the critical service and advisory roles it can play for government, business, and industry, and the training role it plays preparing new scholars and scientists capable of meeting the needs of the next millennium. | Sponsorship |
| The University of Queensland | The University of Queensland Usability Laboratory (UQUL) | |||
| University Of Saskatchewan | University Of Saskatchewan HCI Lab | Jeff Dyck jeff.dyck@usask.ca |
Research areas include groupware awareness, groupware architecture, visualization, usability, and others. | Partners |
| The University of Sunderland, England | Usability Services - Usability Lab |
Digital Media Network |
The Digital Media Network is a link to a cluster of digital media companies in the North East of England. The DMN has a team of 9, all of whom are based at the University of Sunderland. | The project is funded partly by the University of Sunderland and partly by the European Regional Development Fund. |
| University of Texas at El Paso | Interactive Systems Group | David Novick The University of Texas at El Paso Department of Computer Science 500 West University Avenue El Paso, Texas 79968 |
Conducts research in models of interaction and the engineering of
interactive systems. Our research builds knowledge at the confluence of
human-computer interaction, computational linguistics and spoken-language
systems.
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| University of Virginia | Human-Computer Interaction | Stephanie Guerlain guerlain@virginia.edu |
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a sub-field of Human Factors Engineering. HCI and Human Factors are interdisciplinary fields, combining aspects of psychology, computer science, anthropology, and design. | ? |
| University of Washington | Usability Research Group | Contact Page | Services | |
| Virginia Tech | Center for Human Computer Interaction | Center Personnel John M. Carroll Director carroll@cs.vt.edu |
Virginia Tech has had a prominent HCI activity since 1979; in 1995, the university established the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, incorporating faculty from 16 departments and four colleges. | External Partners |
| Wichita State University | SURL Software Usability Research Laboratory |
Barbara Chaparro |
The Software Usability Research Laboratory is a service division of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Wichita State University. The lab provides usability services such as user interface design, usability testing, and human- computer interaction research to corporations world-wide. The lab is staffed by WSU faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students in the human factors program. 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. |
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