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 Submissions must be unpublished manuscripts based on the chosen theme for [...]

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 [...]

As you can see in the above screenshot, Amazon has left out the Log Out button from their header and main page. It took me way too long to locate a place where I could log out of my account. Turns out you have to click on the Your Account link at the right. It [...]

This website demonstrates what an interface that does not require mouse clicking could look like. I wouldn’t call this a research experiment exactly, but the developers do collect usage data and apparently they record the mouse movements for all users who visit the site. I think this is an important topic to explore, especially with [...]

I am currently in the middle of publishing some useful workload measurement desktop applications to the Adobe Marketplace and Intel AppUp Center. Currently the Human-Robot Interaction Workload Measurement tool (HRI-WM)  is under review and the NASA-TLX app will be ready by the end of the week. I will update this blog when each are available for purchase [...]

The University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies seems to be involved in a lot of really interesting virtual reality and avatar research. I’ve included an example of what they’re working on below: Sergeant Star The video below shows a demonstration of USC’s Sergeant Star Immersive Demonstration. The avatar is life-sized, and they say [...]

I was playing around with designing some sort of symbol to represent the field of Human Factors and came up with the crest above. I quite like it, but I know it needs some work. We’ll call this version 0.0.1. There was a method to my madness during the design stages and you can read [...]

Some of my research involves understanding how people become engaged, and how engagement can be measured and induced in certain situations. Tom Chatfield gives a great Ted talk about his ideas of engagement in terms of video games and reward systems. He talks about emotional engagement and collective engagement, and touches on how the two can be [...]