Unfortunately, Adobe’s InMarket and AIR app store will close down permanently on 31 August 2011. This means that the NASA-TLX and HRI-Workload desktop applications will no longer be available from Adobe. Instead, the apps will be available in-house or through our Intel AppUp store. If you have installed either of the apps from Adobe, please [...]

Amazon recently released a new category of Worker on the Mechanical Turk. These workers are called Masters, and they are elite, established workers who have demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in the work they produce.Currently, there are two categories that a Worker can be a master in, Photo Moderation and Categorization. I imagine that more categories [...]

Welcome to part 2 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I have decided to release the NASA-TLX and the HRI-WM workload measures for free.

Click here to get the NASA-TLX tool at the Intel AppUp Store. The Intel AppUp center is a service that allows you to browse a catalog of applications for purchase or free download to your netbook or other personal computing device. Applications are available for many different categories including social, education, entertainment, communications etc. To [...]

Click here to get the HRI-Workload Measurement tool at the Intel AppUp Store. The Intel AppUp center is a service that allows you to browse a catalog of applications for purchase or free download to your netbook or other personal computing device. Applications are available for many different categories including social, education, entertainment, communications etc. [...]

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has put together a Human Factors Prize aimed at recognizing excellence in human factors/ergonomics research. This is a new competition aimed at recruiting authors to publish in one of the top human factors journals aptly named Human Factors. Submissions must be unpublished manuscripts based on the chosen theme for [...]

Welcome to part 1 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

Open Exhibits is a multitouch open source architecture supported by the National Science Foundation. They provide various  modules and templates for displaying interactive information geared towards educators, museum exhibit designers, and other types of information visualization designers. You can download their core for free if you are a student, educator, or museum professional. Since Open Exhibits is based on [...]

This is a brilliant idea for an augmented reality app. The idea is simple: point your iPhone camera towards any object with printed text and the app translates the text and maps it back onto the object on your screen. Could you imagine if this was integrated into a pair of glasses? One of the [...]