Centre for User Experience Research
The Centre for User Experience Research (CUO) is a research department of the faculty of Social Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and is part of IBBT. The CUO pursues the design of user-friendly applications as well as the evaluation of applications on their user-friendliness. The user plays a central role within each phase of the development or evaluation process.
The CUO is part of the Centre for Media Culture en Communication Technology (CMC) and a research group of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT).The CUO is housed at the Mediacentrum K.U.Leuven (see directions and contact details).
News
20/12 - Start opleiding Human Centered Design in februari
Bent u op zoek naar bruikbare methodieken om uw ontwerpproces beter af te stemmen op de gebruikers? Verwerf dan een gestructureerd inzicht in het ontwerp van gebruiksvriendelijke interfaces (soft- én hardware) en volg onze opleiding:
Human Centered Design voor intuïtieve mens-machine-interactie
Kortrijk en Leuven (via videoconferentie)
14 sessies vanaf donderdag 9 februari t.e.m. 7 juni 2012, telkens van 18.00 tot 21.30 uur.
Schrijf in vóór 3 februari 2012.
De opleiding biedt een ruime basisvorming betreffende de essentiële stappen in het gebruikersgericht ontwerpproces, met aandacht voor zowel hard- als softwaretoepassingen. De aanpak is praktijkgericht, maar besteedt ook voldoende aandacht aan de theoretische basis die aan de oorsprong ligt van deze discipline.
Lees meer op de opleidingswebsite of download de brochure.
28/11 - Book published: Vice City Virtue. Moral Issues in Digital Game Play
Recently, the book "Vice City Virtue. Moral Issues in Digital Game Play" was published by Acco.
It contains very interesting chapters that handle different aspects of video games and game culture, related to moral issues.
One of the chapters, "Fail with Honour or Win by Cheating? Research into the Perceptions and Motivations of Cheaters in Online Multiplayer Games" was written by Wannes Ribbens and Yorick Poels, researchers at Centre for Media Culture and Communication Technology and Centre for User experience research.
28/06 - The evolving field of tangible interaction for children
Bieke Zaman, Vero Vanden Abeele, Panos Markoupoulos and Paul Marshall published a special issue on the topic of tangible user interfaces and children. It emphasizes research on tangibility that transcends system descriptions, focusing on the empirical support of theories and design guidance. In their editorial, empirical evidence is discussed for the potential benefits that using TUIs may have for children. They focus on the impact of tangibility in terms of usability, learning, collaboration, and fun.
