IE Lab workshops are customizable based on your needs and experiences. Workshops can be provided at your place of business or at the IE Lab on the MU campus. Faculty and student practitioners share their knowledge on conducting a usability studies. Plus, you’ll get hands-on training to see how these studies are conducted in real settings.
Our workshops deal with the “big picture” of usability and its importance in our lives. We cover a variety of usability methods including Think Aloud, Task Analysis and Information Horizons. You’ll learn how to design your own studies and get hands-on training with usability software.
This one day usability workshop conducted at the
2008 ASIS&T Conference included:
• Application of usability software in user studies
• Task analysis
• In-depth interviewing with Think Aloud protocol
• Focus group data collection
• Review of advanced research designs
Please contact Gary Westergren at (573) 884-9373 if you would like us
to conduct a usability workshop for your organization.
This course, taught by Joi Moore, focuses on the use and adaptation of existing Human-Computer Interaction theories and research. HCI is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use. The course surveys techniques available in the discipline and demonstrates when they are applicable, as well as covering new design methods and techniques.
Sanda Erdelez introduces students to the theories and methods of human information behavior research that have emerged within the field of library and information science. Students also learn about how the study of human information behavior relates to other fields, such as education, psychology, decision-making, and communications.
Sanda Erdelez will introduce this newly designed usability course in Fall semester 2009.
This course covers the concepts and methods important for evaluating whether or not library information services and related information systems are created with the users in mind. The course topics are based on Jacob Nielsen’s work on usability engineering and evaluation with an emphasis on web-based information environments. The course is a mix of conceptual and practical aspects.
