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Portable Lab

a portable lab

Tiny enough to pack into a suitcase, but powerful enough to contain all the capabilities of our stationary lab, the portable lab provides the opportunity to go to the users and record digital output of the interface, the user, and the user´s voice.

Advantages:

  • Capability to conduct studies around the world. This is especially important where geographic and/or international/intercultural issues are an important part of a usability study.
  • Capability to conduct on-site studies to see and learn from users working in their own environment.
  • Capability to go outdoors for those applications where this is essential.
  • Capability to combine lab testing and site testing to compare and contrast results, as each option provides benefits.
Usability Center News

Barnum and Li present Holiday Inn China website study (read more)

Carol Barnum and her former colleague David Dayton publish study results on the impact of agile on user-centered design.
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Barnum speaks twice at the Usability Professionals Association Conference, Baltimore, June 18-20, 2008 (read more)

Read two articles Carol Barnum wrote for eLearn Magazine about usability testing and e-learning (read more)

What is Usability?

"Usability is the art and science of making documents and products usable, useful, and most of all, satisfying.”
– Dr. Carol Barnum

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