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Provides
extensive information, articles, and lists of resources on a variety
of usability topics.
Linking
Policy
 Professional Organizations' Sites
ACM
SIGCHI
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
- The Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
- Information on conferences, publications,
mailing lists, and local usability groups
- Provides a bibliographic database
on human-computer interaction
Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
http://hfes.org
- Promotes the
discovery and exchange of information on the characteristics of
human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices
of all kinds
- Provides information
on conferences, meetings, graduate programs, and member services
- Sponsers a
placement service and consultant directory
Society
for Technical Communication
http://www.stc.org
- Provides information
on conferences, meetings, employment opportunities, grants and loans,
academic programs, and member services
- Members include
technical writers, editors, graphic designers, videographers, multimedia
artists, Web and Intranet page information designers, translators
and others
- Conducts a
yearly survey of technical communicator salaries and has a jobs
database
Usability
Professionals' Association
http://www.upassoc.org/index.html
- Association of professionals dedicated
to usability
- Contact information for usability
consultants
- Events, resources and job listings
for usability professionals
W3C
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
- The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's)
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Focuses on accessibility of the Web
through technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and
research and development
Government
Sites
NIST
Visualization and Usability Group (VUG)
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/vvrg/index.html
- Part of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory federal agency
that works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements,
and standards
- This group conducts research in information
visualization, virtual environments, and human-computer interaction
technologies
- Projects include creating a common
industry format for reporting results of usability testing and the
development of tools and techniques that support remote, automated
usability testing
Commercial Sites
Forms
That Work
http://www.formsthatwork.com
- Questions and Answers section offers
advice on forms problems
- Contains a selection of papers and
presentations on forms design
- Usability Toolkit contains free usability
tools and descriptions of techniques
TaskZ.com
http://www.taskz.com
- Provides information and resources
on the development of user-centered technology
- Includes data and statistics on topics
such as browsers, screen size, resolution, and mobile and fixed
platform issues
- Contains articles by leading professionals
in fields such as usability, intellectual property law, user-interface
design, and strategic planning
usability
first
http://www.usabilityfirst.com
- Provides an introduction to usability
methods
- Provides a usability glossary
- Links to usability resources
Usabilitynews.com
http://www.usabilitynews.com
- Sponsored by the British HCI Group
of the British Computer Society
- Contains the latest news, events and
jobs in usability
- Ability to contribute articles and
subscribe to email newsletter
Usable
Web
http://usableweb.com
- Collection of links to information
about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design
- Descriptions of each link, multiple
organizational schemes (by date, site, topic, popularity), and search
engine queries to even more resources
useit.com
http://www.useit.com
- List of selected usability Web sites
- Bi-weekly Alertboxes (http://www.useit.com/alertbox),
essays on usability topics
- Based on common sense and extensive
research
User
Interface Engineering
http://world.std.com/~uieweb
- Articles, publications, events about
usability
- White papers on usability topics
- Training courses on usability
Academic
Sites
Stanford
Web Credibility Research
http://webcredibility.org
- Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology
lab
- Provides information on current projects
underway to study Web credibility
- Offers links to papers on Web credibility
and provides email links to a Web credibility bibliography
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