About IDL - Interaction Design Lab

The Interaction Design Laboratory facilitates research and development in electronic information environments such as digital libraries, electronic publications, distributed courses, and shared work spaces. The IDL aims to develop theories of information seeking and interaction design and supports activities such as: analysis of tasks and user behavior, design and testing of information systems and techniques, and evaluation of existing systems.

You can reserve the usability lab online at: reserve the lab. Please don't mess with other people's reservation.

Equipment

The IDL contains a variety of research workstations and eye-tracking, usability, and video equipment. See equipment for details.

Location

The Interaction Design Laboratory is located on the 4th floor of the library stacks in the School of Information and Library Science in Manning Hall on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. From the SILS library, take the stairs inside the stacks up to the 4th floor (note that the 4th floor of the stacks is between the 2nd and 3rd floors of the rest of Manning Hall). Once on the 4th floor of the stacks, take a right and proceed down the short corridor. The lab rooms are the two doors at the end of the corridor.

Policies

The Interaction Design Lab's Usability Equipment is available to all SILS students and faculty members. Anyone wishing to use the equipment must submit a statement outlining how they intend to use the facility, including:

A one-page overview of the project
What resources will be required (usability station, eye-tracker, etc.)
When and for how long the experiments will be conducted

Other items:

Hours are the same as the SILS library hours, although special cases will be considered
Reservations are on a first come, first-served basis

Security policies for IDL computing resources:

Support

The IDL receives or has received partial support from the following sponsors:

The National Science Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Endeca Technologies Inc.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Provost's Office
Intel, Inc.
The Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation

Created on 2005-01-06 19:12:42 by admin
Updated on 2005-01-06 20:15:32 by admin