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Graduate course in Usability Testing (Spring 2015, TR 2-3:20 pm)

English 5388: Usability Testing

Spring 2015 Graduate Course

Dr. Brian Still

Course meets: TR 2:00-3:20 in English 358

You can take advantage of the Usability Research Lab’s state-of-the-art facilities and learn from an industry expert and leading Usability/User Experience (UX) scholar when you sign up for English 5388: Usability Testing, which is offered next spring.

Dr. Brian Still, Director of the Usability Research Lab (URL), has consulted with a wide range of clients on UX research projects, including the United States Army and Booz Allen Hamilton. In addition, he began a startup company, Grinbath, in 2011 that to date owns five eye tracking patents. Grinbath built on the work he and his team of graduate students did in the URL in iterating, with substantial user testing involved, eye tracking hardware and software prototypes. The latest Grinbath product, the EyeGuide  Mobile Tracker, is an eye tracking system that allows you to see what users are seeing wherever they are seeing it, live.

You will have access to the EyeGuide Mobile Tracker, along with other UX testing tools, such as Techsmith Morae and Oculus Rift VRware, enabling you to evaluate how users use games, software, hardware, mobile applications, web sites, and any other relevant devices and systems.

Students from many disciplines, including human factors and engineering fields, have taken the course in the past, which is both theoretical and hands-on. You’ll learn bedrock concepts and methods of UX (blank page prototyping, Agile/Lean UX, retrospective recall, small sample qualitative analysis, eye tracking, game testing, to name a few) and apply them in a number of different practical projects.

If you’re interested in UX as a methodology to round out your existing work in design, communications, development, or research on users, contact Dr. Sean Zdenek (sean.zdenek@ttu.edu) to sign up for English 5388: Usability Testing.

Posted:
11/13/2014

Originator:
Sean Zdenek

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Department:
English


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