User Experience Design
The HCI Laboratory services in this area specialize in particular in two main domains where the Lab has high expertise: Universal Access, Design for All and Assistive Technologies, and interaction in Ambient Intelligence Environments.
Abstract
Overview The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of FORTH-ICS provides user research and usability consulting services, throughout the user experience lifecycle of interactive applications and services. Following User-Centred Design and Design for All approaches, the HCI Laboratory supports the activities of user requirements and context of use analysis, user experience design and user experience evaluation. The Laboratory has an established tradition in a variety of User experience design activities involve visual design, interaction design, information architecture design, and industrial design, addressing a variety of application domains, such as desktop, web and mobile applications, large-screen interactive systems, and Ambient Intelligence environments. An important activity throughout the entire design, development and deployment lifecycle is user experience evaluation. Services in this domain include paper prototyping, high fidelity mockups' and interactive systems' evaluation, through a variety of methods such as expert-based evaluation with usability and accessibility experts, user testing in the laboratory, and user observation in the field. Evaluation of a smart table for children Evaluation of a home care robot Target Applications User experience design services support the entire lifecycle of design, development and deployment of interactive products and applications. The HCI Laboratory services in this area specialize in particular in two main domains where the Lab has high expertise: (i) Universal Access, Design for All and Assistive Technologies, and (ii) interaction in Ambient Intelligence Environments.