[Asis-l] UT-Austin GSLIS Receives Microsoft Grant

[Mary Lynn Rice-Lively]

Press Release
August 1, 2002

GSLIS at UT-Austin receives $200 000 grant from Microsoft

Andrew Dillon, Dean and Professor at GSLIS, University of Texas at Austin
has been awarded $200 000 by Microsoft Research to lead a series of
investigations into the user response to ClearType technology.  Dillon was
approached by Microsoft Research to design a series of evaluations that will
test the impact of this new feature on a range of real world
information-intensive tasks.  Dean Dillon notes:  "This technology seeks to
advance significantly the usability of digital documents. As a critic of
many e-text applications, I am delighted Microsoft has selected us to
conduct scientific evaluations of the technology's real value to users." The
funding will support a research team at Austin and further aid the
development of a new user experience research lab at the School.

Mary Lynn Rice-Lively
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Assistant Dean
GSLIS UT at Austin
512-471-2371 wk 512-471-3971 fax
marylynn at gslis.utexas.edu
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~marylynn/