Professional Development Course during CHI2007

Professional Development Course during CHI2007

Instructor: Lucas P.J.J. Noldus, PhD

This course offers participants an intensive half-day course in video technology, software tools and integrated solutions for field and lab studies. After this course you will be up to date with the latest proven techniques, tools and best practices for data collection in HCI research or usability testing. If your next project is a field study, a focus group or a usability lab test, attend this course to learn how to select the right tool for the job and how to put it to optimal use.

Topics that will be covered in the course, are:

• Digital video recording and screen capture, storage and retrieval
• Designing a usability lab
• Observational data collection
• Eye tracking
• Physiological data acquisition
• Multimodal measurements

This course is intended for human-computer interaction researchers and usability practitioners (usability engineers, UI designers, usability testers) who wish to take advantage of new technologies and tools to enhance the quality of their measurements and the efficiency of their projects. Those who are planning to set up new research or test facilities or upgrade existing facilities (usability lab, focus group room, tools for ethnography) will also benefit from the course.

The course is useful for people working in academic research, corporate human factors groups as well as independent consulting firms. Both novices and experts can benefit from this course. For instance, the novice will learn the basic of digital video technology while the expert will learn how to integrate video with observational and psychophysiological measures. The course offers classroom teaching, group exercises and hands-on training. Information, and registration.