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    15

    What is Usability Testing?

    July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

    I own my own business and when people ask what I do, I say, “I do usability testing.” Quite often (even when they are in software or product development) they give that quizzical look.

    Then ask, “What exactly is Usability Testing?”
    I have a few different spiels (and resources on this site). I can go into great [...]

    Jul

    14

    Photographic Fabric

    July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

    If it weren’t on the other side of the country, I think I would be spending alot of time hanging out at MIT. They are constantly researching and creating products that I find fascinating.
    This article was posted HERE on their news site last week.
    A Fabric with Vision
    by Elizabeth A. Thomson
    Researchers create flexible lensless camera from [...]

    Jul

    10

    Silverback Guerilla Usability Testing

    July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

    I have been using Morae fromTechSmith to do the bulk of my usability testing and have been wanting to run tests using my mac. One of the applications I have been looking at is Silverback made by Clearleft. From what I can see, it is a stripped down application that will work well for guerilla-style, [...]

    Apr

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    IBM Developed AI to Compete on Jeopardy

    April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

    Having Watson compete on Jeopardy is a great publicity move, however, the other applications this project could enable are truly exciting.
    “Beyond Jeopardy, the challenge expands to demonstrating how core open-domain question-and-answer technologies can be quickly and effectively adapted to different business applications,” said Michael Loughran, communications manager at IBM Research. “These applications will demand a [...]

    Jan

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    Focus on Usability in 2009

    January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

    In years past, the Consumer Electronics Show has been a showcase for excess. Huge televisions, products that are well out of the price range of the average consumer and were often rushed to release in time so that the manufacturers could make a bug splash at the show. They didn’t spend much time on usability [...]