[MNASIS-L] Open House at the U of M Usability Lab on Friday Sept. 26 at 10:00 a.m. - noon

[Janet Arth]

**** INVITING YOU TO AN OPEN HOUSE AT THE U OF M USABILITY LAB ****

*Date:     Friday September 26, 2008
Time:    10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location:  B-26 Walter Library on the Minneapolis campus* 
(see http://dmc.umn.edu/usability/directions.shtml for lab location and 
directions)

*Event:  *Opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and external 
visitors to tour the Usability Services Lab at the University of 
Minnesota. 

My team will be happy to show you the lab and discuss our services.  Our 
usability consultants will be doing demonstrations of sample usability 
evaluation tasks, using our eye-tracking equipment.

*Objective of the lab:  *We help project teams and researchers obtain 
the user perspective on the way that information is presented on a 
computer screen.  The usability lab provides an environment in which 
teams are able to observe users trying out a Web site or other design.   
We offer usability testing and other services, utilizing screen capture, 
video, audio, and eye-tracking tools and equipment in the lab.  We 
provide services both to web design teams and to academic researchers.

*No sign-up is necessary.*  Visitors may stop by anytime during the Open 
House hours. 
*
Contact Info:*

Alice de la Cova
Usability Services Manager
Office of Information Technology's Digital Media Center
University of Minnesota
(612) 624-9365
a-dela at umn.edu <mailto:a-dela at umn.edu>