Usability and Human Factors

Posted by: Web Diva on May 5th, 2008

STC Usability SIG Topics in Usability: Accessibility
STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Futures Laboratory The Argonne Futures Lab performs basic and applied research in advanced communications, collaboration, and visualization technologies (for example, teleimmersion) to enable [...]

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Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders

Posted by: Web Diva on May 4th, 2008

Applied Ergonomics Conference and Virtual Community
Ergonomics information provided by IBM.
Ergonomics At Work, Department of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS)
Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI) [United Kingdom]
"Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
Healthy Computing information provided by IBM. Topics include Setting up your workstation, Workstation aids, Mobile computing, Comfort, Vision, Display, Input [...]

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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities goes into force today

Posted by: Web Diva on May 3rd, 2008

Today, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) entered into force. When you realize that an estimated 650 million people worldwide are affected by this groundbreaking treaty, this is very big news.
According to the news release about CRPD from the UN News Centre today, the rights of persons with disabilities [...]

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How Does the Eye See?

Posted by: Web Diva on April 16th, 2008

We received an inquiry from a student about the shape of the human field of vision. The following Web sites provide information about this.

How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html
Newton’s Apple teacher guides: Human Eye. How does the human eye see? How does the eyeball work? http://www.newtonsapple.tv/TeacherGuide.php?id=1539
Sensitivity for global shape detection
http://journalofvision.org/3/10/4/article.aspx
Glossary of Lasik [...]

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