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Industry Sector: Charities / Not-For-Profit, Computing, IT & Technology, Design, Mobile & Telecoms
About User-Lab
http://www.user-lab.com
The User-Lab is a not-for-profit research centre based at the UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design http://www.uce.ac.uk. The centre was developed with Higher Education Funding Council for England http://www.hefce.ac.uk and lab carries out commercial and academic research projects in user-centred design. Since its inception in 2000, User-Lab has carried out numerous projects with clients including The BBC, Birmingham City Council, The Environment Agency; The Healthcare Commission, and the Learning and Teaching Support Network.
Projects are most often focussed on assuring usability, accessibility and user acceptance. Application areas include websites, CD ROMs, e-learning and software and hardware interfaces. User-Lab's academic research programme bridges two research areas consisting of museums, learning and interpretation and secondly design research. Research outcomes include over seventy publications in subject areas ranging from e-learning to user-interface design. User-Lab is staffed by four full-time members of staff comprising of Director, Senior Research Fellow, Design Manager and Programmer.
Core Services:
Projects are most often focussed on assuring usability, accessibility and user acceptance. Application areas include websites, CD ROMs, e-learning and software and hardware interfaces. User-Lab's academic research programme bridges two research areas consisting of museums, learning and interpretation and secondly design research. Research outcomes include over seventy publications in subject areas ranging from e-learning to user-interface design. User-Lab is staffed by four full-time members of staff comprising of Director, Senior Research Fellow, Design Manager and Programmer.
Core Services:
- User-interface design
- User requirements elicitation and specification
- Usability testing
- Accessibility auditing
- Psychological research
- Qualitative research
- Usability testing laboratory
- Accessibility testing laboratory
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