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The CIFter Project was created by a project team of the Visualization and Usability Group* at The National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) to promote the investigation and development of ways to evaluate and benchmark methodologies for assessing the usability of websites. CIFter is a compound acronym. The CIF is the Common Industry Format for reporting the results of usability studies with users. The "ter" refers to the "Testing of usability Evaluation Reports".