Visualization and Usability Group (VUG)

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IUSR: Initiated to increase the visibility of software usability.
Biomterics and Usability: Our goal is to broaden the awareness of what usability research is and why it is critical to the success of many biometric programs
DARPA IM: Is to develop evaluation methodologies and tools that enable user-centric testing and benchmarking of information management systems.
Web Metrics: To explore the feasibility of a range of tools and techniques that support rapid, remote and automated testing and evaluation of website usability.
CIFter: Initiated to promote the investigation and development of ways to evaluate and benchmark methodologies for assessing the usability of websites.
Visualization and Virtual Reality for Manufacturing: Examines the role of advanced user interfaces for manufacturing applications.
Accessibility: Participation in standards activities to promote accessibiity to electronic information technology.
INCITS/V2: A technical committee whose first project is to develop standards for an Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP).
Voting Systems: Contributing to technical guidance for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Human Robotics: We are focusing on methodologies and metrics for evaluating interfaces for users of robots.
Urban Search and Rescue: We are investigating what makes good user interfaces for operators in Urban Search and Rescue
Intelligence Systems: This is under construction.
Digital Laboratory of Mathematical Functions: Develop a replacement for the Handbook of Mathematical Functions (with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables which will become a major resource of math reference data for special functions and their applications

VUG conducts research in information visualization, virtual environments, related HCI technologies, and the evaluation of these technologies in order to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of visual displays of information to industry and government.

The group achieves this mission by:

Measuring the effectiveness of leading edge HCI technology, primarily information visualization, and web access for improving the interaction among USERS and INFORMATION,
Investigating usability and interoperability, and
Building evaluation tools and developing evaluation methods.