Deconstructing Elements of the iPhone’s Interface Through Usability - UsabilityNJ - (Morristown, NJ, USA)
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 by Whitney Quesenbery| January 23, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Time: Social hour starts at 6:30 PM. Presentation starts at 7:00 PM.
Location: Logical Design Solutions, 131 Madison Ave., Morristown, NJ (directions). The meeting will be in the Executive Conference room on the 2nd floor.
More information: UsabilityNJ web site
Join UsabilityNJ and speaker Gavin Lew, Managing Director of UserCentric, for a look at the iPhone interface.
The well-publicized launch of Apple’s iPhone with its multi-touch user interface was the subject of a program of research conducted by User Centric. Many articles were written on the “wow” factor of the iPhone, but almost all reviews were based on opinion or anecdotal references. User Centric’s objective was to assess the iPhone’s usability from a more rigorous user experience research perspective. In short, the goal was to assess performance, satisfaction and usage employing quantitative and qualitative measures with actual users who were naïve to the testing procedures and purposes.
The results from this series of studies will be discussed at this session. With each study, key objectives were defined with specific measures, methodologies and participant groups to target device features and interactions. Each study will be described in detail with time for questions from the audience.
The findings of some of the early studies have been published. As with any research where opinion, conjecture, and pundits are abundant, some of the findings have generated controversy.
A longer description of the talk is posted on the UsabilityNJ web site.
