Example labs

Thirty one usability labs from all over the world, all recently built and in active use, take you on a photographic tour and show you how they designed their rooms, what equipment they use, and which software tools are used for data collection and analysis. The usability lab photo gallery covers a wide range of application domains, organizations and technology: from desktop software to mobile applications, from healthcare to military systems, from consumer electronics to office hardware, from focus groups and qualitative testing to physiological measurements and eye tracking, from corporate to educational facilities, from stationary to portable labs. Enjoy the tours!

University of Salzburg

At the ICT&S Center (Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society) a radically new Usability and Interface Experimental Lab has been established in 2005. There are various areas which can be used for usability study purposes:

Uppsala University

During conventional usability testing, the screen and either the face or the hands of the test person is recorded. Each recording is then analyzed with The Observer Video-Pro and predefined events and tasks are logged. For presentation purposes, video highlights are produced as MPEG-1 clips. In quantitative studies, summary statistics (task completion times, error rates) are exported to Excel and to proprietary software for hypothesis testing, mostly using re-sampling statistical methods. The lab is used for both teaching usability evaluation methods and for research.