Synopsis:

This class is designed to help students gain a professional level of expertise in usability engineering methods. It has as a prerequisite the School of Information class in Intro to Usability, or equivalent (to be assessed by the professor). This class will build upon the earlier usability class.

Advanced topics we MAY address include: 

1. Remote usability testing.
2. Automated usability test tools.
3. Web UI standards.
4. Advocating for your data and your discipline.
5. Usability evaluation of systems for sophisticated users.
6. The politics of usability, and organizational placement of usability engineers.
7. How are Web UIs different from Windows UIs, and how SHOULD they be?
8. How does usability dovetail with accessibility and internationalization?
9. Measuring ROI for your usability dollar and hour.
10. Scientific comparisons of the effectiveness of various usability test and inspection methods.
11. Usability vs. learnability vs. discoverability.
12. Special needs of e-commerce sites vs. informational or Intranet sites.
13. What’s new on the usability horizon?