FWA is a PhD student, but also so much more. Since my contract with VagueCompany ended, I’ve worked as a researcher at the Unnamed University of Technology and I’ll soon start working as a researcher for ConsumerCompany.
My field of experience keeps growing, but the core is experimental psychology, with a bias towards user-system interaction, methods and measurements and systems in technology.
17 September 2008 at 13:34
DEAR FAW,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover usability in FAW, I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael
19 September 2008 at 11:58
Hello Michael,
it certainly sounds interesting. I have signed up for the beta, and am waiting to see when it comes out (the website now claims late spring?). I will definitely read the report and let you know what I think.
By the by, have you tried submitting it for a conference?
Sincere regards,
FAW
31 March 2009 at 13:08
I love your site. Keep it up !