[Sigia-l] Usability Testing

[Filipp Sapienza]

This coming semester (beginning January 2006) the M.S.
in Technical Communication
Program at the University of Colorado at Denver will
again offer a semester-length course in Usability
Testing (at the graduate level).  If you have a
website or document you wish to have tested by our
students,  we invite both public and private sector
organizations to participate.  

We invite such organizations to provide actual
documents, websites, electronic media, software,
and/or other technology for which they would like
user-testing and related comprehensibility evaluations
to be performed in our labs.  

In past courses we provided valuable usability testing
for diverse clients, including (among others) Mortgage
101, AutoCad, TargetSmart, Inc. (specializing in
marketing software), for the National Renewable Energy
Laboratories (NREL) Website, BioStar (manfacturers of
human virus detection equipment), AmazingPlaces.com,
and J. D. Edwards Company.

Organizations must also provide monetary support for
securing and paying user-test participants and for
transcribing audio and/or video data.  There is also a
nominal participation contribution of US $1000.00
which helps support upgrades in our lab facilities and
scholarships for students
enrolled in the program in technical communication. 

While it is difficult to provide an exact estimate of
your total costs, you should know that historically,
it has been *far* lower than the minimum costs for
professional usability services in the Denver Colorado
area. Past clients have also been impressed with the
professional-level quality of testing done by our
students and the opportunity to work with a university
community committed to researching the latest methods
in usability.

Further details about this program may be found by
contacting Dr. Filipp Sapienza,  Assistant Professor,
Technical Communication Program,  University of
Colorado at Denver, Plaza Building, Suite 102, Room P,
Campus Box 176, Denver, Colorado 80217 (Phone:
303-556-2778) 
(Email: filipp.sapienza at cudenver.edu).


		
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