A Cost-Effective Usability Evaluation Progression for Novel Interactive Systems (2008)
Deborah Hix, Ph. D. Joseph, L. Gabbard, Ph. D, Mark A. Livingston, Ph. D. Tobias, ...
For more than two decades, through our work in human-computer interaction and usability engineering, we have pursued the goals of developing, applying, and extending methods for improving the...
Mark A. Livingston, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Tobias H. Höllerer, Deborah Hix, ...
A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded infrastructure directly in a user’s view of the environment. This is especially important for our...
ABSTRACT Usability Engineering for Complex Interactive Systems Development (2008)
Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Ph. D, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Ph. D, ...
process that ensures a high level of effectiveness, efficiency, and safety in complex interactive systems. This paper presents a brief description of usability engineering activities, and discusses...
Virtual Reality User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Virtual Environments (2008)
Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems enables the creation of visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications. At the same time,...
A Comparative Study of User Performance in a Map-Based Virtual Environment (2008)
J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Robert S. Schulman, Keun Pyo Kim
We present a comparative study of user performance with tasks involving navigation, visual search, and geometric manipulation, in a map-based battlefield visualization virtual environment (VE)....
• Minor: Foundations of Business Honors and Awards (2008)
D. Sc, Silverman Heller, Dr. Deborah Hix, ...
A Comparative Study of User Performance in a Map-Based Virtual Environment (2008)
J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Robert S. Schulman, Keun Pyo Kim
We present a comparative study of user performance with tasks involving navigation, visual search, and geometric manipulation, in a map-based battlefield visualization virtual environment (VE)....
A Comparative Study of User Performance in a Map-Based Virtual Environment (2008)
J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Robert S. Schulman, Keun Pyo Kim
We present a comparative study of user performance with tasks involving navigation, visual search, and geometric manipulation, in a map-based battlefield visualization virtual environment (VE)....
Deborah Hix, H. Rex Hartson, Published John Wiley, Debbie Stone, Caroline Jarrett, Mark Woodroffe, ...
ISBN: 978-0-321-37596-4; LCC: QA76.9.H85H9 2007
Abstract Visualizing Search Results: Some Alternatives To Query-Document Similarity (2008)
Lucy Terry Newell, Robert K. France, Deborah Hix, Lenwood S. Heath, Edward A. Fox
provides powerful information visualization by displaying search results as a matrix of icons, with layout semantics under user control. Envision’s Graphic View interacts with an Item Summary...
Complex Interactive Systems Development (2008)
Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Ph. D, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Ph. D, ...
process that ensures a high level of effectiveness, efficiency, and safety in complex interactive systems. This paper presents a brief description of usability engineering activities, and discusses...
Hix Hartson, See Also, Deborah Hix, H. Rex Hartson, James Rudd, Ken Stern, ...
Interactions v.III n.1 (Jan. 1996) pp.76-85
Opportunities for Voice in Computing* (2008)
H. Rex Hartson, Deborah Hix, Christopher Schmandt
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, me-chanical, photocopying, microfilming,...
Kent Swartz, Umesh Thakkar, Deborah Hix, Rachael Brady
The everyday use of virtual reality systems is creating a need for user interface design guidelines for application developers. Programmers are beginning to develop and distribute user interface...
Deborah Hix, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Mike Mcgee, Jim Durbin, ...
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, primarily motivated the creation of visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications....
Deborah Hix, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Mike Mcgee, Jim Durbin, ...
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, concentrated on creating visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications....
Pardha S. Pyla, D. Arthur, L. Smith-jackson, ...
communication-fostering software development framework and crosspollinated
Templeman, James N., Hix, Deborah, Jacob, Robert J.
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing high-performance interactive computer systems for use in Naval command and control applications....
Joseph L. Gabbard, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Deborah Hix
A challenge in presenting augmenting information in outdoor augmented reality (AR) settings lies in the broad range of uncontrollable environmental conditions that may be present, specifically...
Chase, Joe, Hix, Deborah, Tate, David, Templeman, James
This report describes introduction of researchers in the Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to the User Action Notation (UAN), a notation developed at Virginia...
Resolving multiple occluded layers in augmented reality (2003)
Mark A. Livingston, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Tobias H. Höllerer, Deborah Hix, ...
A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded infrastructure directly in a user’s view of the environment. This is especially important for our...
Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, Ph. D, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Ph. D, ...
process that ensures a high level of effectiveness, efficiency, and safety in complex interactive systems. This paper presents a brief description of usability engineering activities, and discusses...
Experiments in Social Data Mining: The TopicShop System (2003)
Brian Amento Loren, Loren Terveen, Will Hill, Deborah Hix, Robert Schulman
This paper revises and expands material originally presented in references 4 and 5
Resolving multiple occluded layers in augmented reality (2003)
Mark A. Livingston, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Tobias H. Höllerer, Deborah Hix, ...
A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded infrastructure directly in a user’s view of the environment. This is especially important for our...
Doug Bowman, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix
Virtual environments (VEs) are a relatively new type of human-computer interface in which users perceive and act in a three-dimensional world. The designers of such systems cannot rely solely on...
An augmented reality system for military operations in urban terrain (2002)
Mark A. Livingston, Mark A. Livingston, Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Simon J. Julier, Dennis Brown, Yohan Baillot, ...
Many future military operations are expected to occur in urban environments. These complex, 3D battlefields introduce many challenges to the dismounted warfighter. Better situational awareness is...
José C. Castillo, H. Rex Hartson, Deborah Hix
The over-arching goal of this work is to discuss the user-reported critical incident method, a costeffective remote usability evaluation method for real-world applications involving real users, doing...
An Augmented Reality System for Military . . . (2002)
Mark A. Livingston, Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Simon J. Julier, Dennis Brown, Yohan Baillot, J. Edward, ...
Many future military operations are expected to occur in urban environments. These complex, 3D battlefields introduce many challenges to the dismounted warfighter. Better situational awareness is...
Graphical encoding for information visualization: an empirical study (2002)
Lucy Nowell, Robert Schulman, Deborah Hix
Research in several areas provides scientific guidance for use of graphical encoding to convey information in an information visualization display. By graphical encoding we mean the use of visual...
TopicShop: Enhanced Support for Evaluating and Organizing Collections of Web Sites (2000)
Brian Amento, Loren Terveen, Deborah Hix
TopicShop is an interface that helps users evaluate and organize collections of web sites. The main interface components are site profiles, which contain information that helps users select...
An Empirical Evaluation of User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites (1999)
Brian Amentoy, Will Hilll, Loren Terveenl, Deborah Hix, Peter Jul
Topic management is the task of gathering, evaluating, organizing, and sharing a set of web sites for a specific topic. Current web tools do not provide adequate support for this task. We created the...
An Empirical Evaluation of User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites (1999)
Brian Amento, Will Hill, Loren Terveen, Deborah Hix, Peter Ju
Topic management is the task of gathering, evaluating, organizing, and sharing a set of web sites for a specific topic. Current web tools do not provide adequate support for this task. We created the...
Evaluating the Usability of Crumbs: A Case Study of VE Usability Engineering (1999)
Kent Swartz Umesh, Umesh Thakkar, Deborah Hix, Rachael Brady
The everyday use of virtual reality systems is creating a need for user interface design guidelines for application developers. Programmers are beginning to develop and distribute user interface...
An Immersive, Medical Visualization Ve, Joseph Gabbard, Kevin Richey, Deborah Hix
Usability evaluation of virtual environments (VEs) to date has received very little attention in VE literature. While awareness of the need for usability evaluation of VEs appears to be on the rise,...
Evaluating the Usability of Crumbs: A Case Study of VE Usability Engineering (1999)
Kent Swartz, Umesh Thakkar, Deborah Hix, Rachael Brady
The everyday use of virtual reality systems is creating a need for user interface design guidelines for application developers. Programmers are beginning to develop and distribute user interface...
Deborah Hix, J. Edward, Joseph L. Gabbard, Mike McGee, Jim Durbin, ...
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, concentrated on creating visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications....
An Immersive, Kent Swartz, Medical Visualization Ve, Joseph L. Gabbard, Kevin Richey, Deborah Hix
Usability evaluation of virtual environments (VEs) to date has received very little attention in VE literature. While awareness of the need for usability evaluation of VEs appears to be on the rise,...
Deborah Hix, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Mike Mcgee, Jim Durbin, ...
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, primarily motivated the creation of visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications....
Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality '99, pages 96--103, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999. (1999)
Awarded Best Paper, Deborah Hix, J. Edward, Swan Ii, Joseph L. Gabbard, Mike Mcgee, ...
The ever-increasing power of computers and hardware rendering systems has, to date, primarily motivated the creation of visually rich and perceptually realistic virtual environment (VE) applications....
The objective of this award was to purchase and install two ISCAN Inc. Eye Tracking Systems and associated equipment to create a unique set-up for research in fully immersive virtual environments...
Report on status of delayed completion of the development of guidelines and data for user navigation within a virtual environment.
A Taxonomy of Usability Characteristics in Virtual Environments (1997)
Joseph L. Gabbard, Deliverable To, Deborah Hix
Despite intense and wide-spread research in both virtual environments (VEs) and usability, the exciting new technology of VEs has not yet been closely coupled with the important characteristic of...
Remote Usability Evaluation At A Glance (1997)
José C. Castillo, H. Rex Hartson, Deborah Hix
Much traditional user interface evaluation is conducted in usability laboratories, where a small number of selected users is directly observed by trained evaluators. However, as the network itself...
The User-Reported Critical Incident Method for Remote Usability Evaluation (1997)
Deborah Hix, Mary Beth Rosson, Robert C. Williges, José C. Castillo, José C. Castillo
Much traditional user interface evaluation is conducted in usability laboratories, where a small number of selected users is directly observed by trained evaluators. However, as the network itself...
Edward A. Fox, N. Dwight Barnette, Clifford A. Shaffer, Lenwood Heath, William Wake, Lucy T. Nowell, ...
Abstract: We describe our prototype digital library in computer science based on publications from ACM and other publishers, and the integrated client and server software devised from local...
Pre-Screen Projection: From Concept to Testing of a New Interaction Technique (1995)
Pre-screen projection is a new interaction technique that allows a user to pan and zoom integrally through a scene simply by moving his or her head relative to the screen. The underlying concept is...
This will appear as a chapter in (1992)
Brad A. Myers, H. Rex Hartson, Deborah Hix
Tools for Creating User Interfaces: An Introduction and Survey. User Interface Software is inherently difficult to design and implement. This paper discusses some important reasons why user interface...