IOP-MMI *, in collaboration with the DECIS lab **, is glad to invite you to participate in a SURVEY about USER-CENTERED DESIGN in the INDUSTRY ----------------------------------------------------------------- Different business sectors have developed a growing interest in applying the outcomes of Human-Computer Interaction research. But, * is there sufficient commitment to bring to integrate HCI into business models? * Is HCI business value well understood and proven? * How can we successfully introduce a UCD approach in existing organizations, with their own procedures, beliefs, culture? * How can we measure the success of HCI integration? What we need is to develop a business strategy and to discover User Centered Design success factors, tapping into the knowledge owned by actual best practices. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate if you would spend about 15 minutes to participate in this survey. The questions are conveniently organized in a web-based form, which makes participating in this survey very easy and hardly time-consuming. The survey is intended to estimate the current state of integration of Human Factors in the product lifecycle. >> only actual User-Centered Design practitioners should answer All you need to do, is to click the following link (or copy the link in your web browser): http://www.decis.nl/Ucd/ Thank you in advance for your cooperation! ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Background of the IOP Man-Machine Interaction (IOP MMI) Human Machine Interaction is of great importance to many industries and markets, such as consumer electronics, medical applications, telecommunications and process industry. The economic influence of a good interface can be enormous; a good knowledge base of human machine interaction is of strategic interest to many industries. Therefore the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has initiated IOP MMI, the innovation-oriented research program on human-machine interaction. The main objective of IOP MMI is to increase the strategic research in this specific field by means of a programmatic approach at the Dutch universities and research institutes so that the demand for innovation in business will be met. IOP MMI funds scientific research on specific strategic themes within the HCI domain. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** Background of the DECIS lab Thales Research & Technology Netherlands (TRT-NL), the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Delft University of Technology (TUD), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have joined forces in research on technologies for intelligent information systems. In our research projects we combine Human Sciences and Information & Communication Technologies in a quest to shape human cognition and artificial intelligence into the best collaborative problem solver. Giorgio Venturi _____ Marie Curie Research Fellow HCI & HF [log in to unmask] *** This is an Unclassified e-mail***