Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Resources on the
Web
Note: The most
current version of this page can be found on the Library Digital
Programs Usability
Services portal.
Contents:
Collections of Usability Resources
Accessibility
Usability Evaluation and Testing Methods
Professional Associations
Libraries and Usability
Digital Library Projects
Digital Library Publications
HCI/Usability Labs and Research Groups
General Resources
- Accessibility
Resources - Links to accessibility guidelines, techniques, and tools
from the National Cancer Institute's Usability.gov Web site
- Accessible Web
Design - A list of links maintained by DO-IT (Disabilities,
Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology), a program of the
University of Washington
- Dive Into
Accessibility - an online book offering
30 days to a more
accessible web site
- Making Your Web
Site Accessible to the Blind - Article from the
National Federation of the Blind
- WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind
- A wide range of resources, including techniques, rationale, tools, and
training materials
Guidelines
Evaluation Tools
- WebXACT - A tool for
identifying web page accessibility problems (replacement for the Bobby
Online Service)
- Web
Developer Extension - This extension for Firefox and Mozilla offers
a toolbar with many features useful for evaluating accessibility, such as
highlighting images that lack alt text.
- Lynx Viewer - A
service that allows web authors to see what their pages will look like
when viewed with a text-mode web browser
- Testing
Web Accessibility with Home Page Reader - explanation from the IBM
Accessibility Center of how to use the IBM Home Page Reader to check
the accessibility of a web site
- Vischeck - A
tool for simulating how a web page will look to someone with a color
deficit
- Colour
Contrast Analyser - A tool that calculates whether two colors have
sufficient contrast to be used as a background and foreground
- Automatic
web usability evaluation: What needs to be done? - A paper by
Giorgio Brajnik describing his survey of the abilities of automatic
usability evaluation tools, presented at the 6th Conference on
Human Factors and the Web (June 2000)
- Card Sorting
- Heuristic
Evaluation - Jakob Nielsen's instructions for conducting a heuristic
evaluation, his list of heuristics, and his method for rating severity of
the usability problems discovered in a heuristic evaluation
- Paper
prototyping - PDF - An article by Carolyn Snyder on
when, how, and why
to use this usability testing method
- Remote
Usability Testing - A brief overview of remote testing and an
explanation of the steps the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
follows when they do remote testing. See also general information on usability
testing at OCLC.
- Site
Usability Heuristics for the Web - Keith Instone's adaptation of Jakob
Nielsen's ten usability heuristics for the Web
- The Usability
Methods Toolbox - James Hom's list of usability evaluation and testing
methods, with explanations of when and how to use them
- ACM SIGCHI - Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery
- DC-CHI - Metro DC Chapter of
ACM SIGCHI
- Human/Machine
Interface Interest Group - An Interest Group of the American Library
Association's (ALA) Library and Information Technology Association
(LITA)
- ITG - The Internet Technical
Group, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- UPA - The Usability
Professionals' Association
- Ariadne - A quarterly
magazine on digital library initiatives
- D-Lib Magazine - An
electronic-only publication on digital library research and
development
- Center for Human
Computer Interaction - Virginia Tech
- Design
and Usability Testing Center - Bentley College, Waltham,
MA
- HCI Resources:
Research Labs and Projects - Links to various HCI labs around
the world
- HCI
Usability Lab - School of Library and Information Science at Indiana
University
- Human-Computer Interaction @ Tufts
University - Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
- Human-Computer
Interaction Lab - University of Maryland
- Human-Computer Interaction
Laboratory - Virginia Tech Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering
- Human Factors
Research Group - University College Cork's research group that
has developed usability questionnaires
- Human Interface
Technology Laboratory - University of Washington
- Library Research Center - The
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
- Laboratory for
Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE) - The University of Washington
Department of Technical Communication
- Online Computer Library Center, Inc. used to have a page describing
their usability lab, Ulab, but now they only offer a description of the
procedure for using their lab, on their page, How we do
it: usability testing. A picture of the lab in use is on the
page, Usability
testing at OCLC.
- Research Institute on
Digital Libraries - A research group at Middlesex University
that works on usability evaluation of digital libraries
- Software
Usability Research Laboratory - Wichita State University, home of
Usability News
- Usability and Accessibility
Center - Michigan State University
- The Usability
Center - Florida State University, School of Information
Studies Institute
- Usability Research
Lab - Learning and Research Center for the Digital Age, Digital
Library Inititatives, and Learning Technology Service, North Carolina
State University Libraries
- The User Experience
Group - Indiana University
This page was last updated August 4, 2005 by Teal Anderson.