Our work within the usability research area involves human computer interfaces (HCI), information architecture and semantic web. The users are always an important part of our projects and our projects are most often user-oriented.
We also help customers to define their needs and to sum these up in a needs specification, acting as a third party indepentent advisor. We try to bring together our experiences from these sub areas and distill them into new knowledge.
Working with information structures and describing information with the use of metadata in standardised ways, for instance with the help of technology standards such as topic maps, has become an increasingly important part of our work in this field. We find that issues relating to the semantic web are becoming increasingly relevant to our projects.
Examples of projects in this research area:
- Analysis of IT systems (mostly web sites and web applications) with the help of indicator systems
- Developing requirements specifications for web sites and web applications
- Developing controlled vocabularies for better semantic support in web portals
- Analysis and development of search systems, taxonomies and ontologies (through semantic technologies like Topic Maps)
