NextGen UX Lab - Phase 1: Applied Research Tools to Improve User Experience Evaluation and**Design Services

这个ARTI项目是两个计划阶段中的第一个阶段。第一阶段将专注于开发我们的工具以及与我们现有设施内的UX设计和评估有关的AR&ED流程。第二阶段计划加强我们的基础设施。**我们申请资金购买工具，以增强我们执行用户体验(UX)设计和评估服务的能力，这是我们的行业合作伙伴所要求的。用户体验是一个广泛的领域，包括人机交互、可用性分析、人的因素和人体工程学以及以用户为中心的设计的研究和实用方法。UX设计和评估方法用于开发人们可以安全、轻松和有效地使用的产品和服务。四十多年的研究和实践表明，正确利用UX方法是成功创新的必要组成部分。**UX设计和评估服务对于(1)帮助我们的NSERC-IRCC合作伙伴和其他组织识别新的UX技术提供的潜在用户交互和问题解决能力；以及(2)帮助他们识别和解决新的UX技术带来的严重设计挑战至关重要。随着新的用户体验技术的出现，AR&ED活动也需要制定有效使用这些技术的设计原则，包括识别公差、设计参数、风险和其他不可预见的设计问题。NBCC-MU必须有工具来维持AR&ED的警觉和持续计划，以帮助公司(1)使新的UX技术无效或(2)在其产品和服务开发计划中成功验证和利用这些技术。本建议书中要求的工具将帮助NBCC-MU满足这些需求。**该项目的首席研究员(PI)小William McIver Jr.是新布伦瑞克社区学院(NBCC)的NSERC移动和普遍存在计算(NSERC-IRCC)工业研究教授。*

This ARTI project is the first of two planned phases. The first phase will focus on the development of our tools and AR&ED processes pertaining to UX design and evaluation within our current facilities. A second phase is planned to enhance our infrastructure.** We request funding to purchase tools that will enhance our capacity to perform user experience (UX) design and evaluation services that have been requested by our industrial partners. UX is a broad area comprised of research and practical methods spanning human-computer interaction, usability analysis, human factors and ergonomics, and user-centred design. UX design and evaluation methodologies are used to develop of products and services that people can use safely, easily, and effectively. Over forty years of research and practice has shown that proper utilization of UX methodologies is a necessary component of successful innovation.** UX design and evaluation services are critical to (1) helping our NSERC-IRCC partners and other organizations identify potential user interaction and problem-solving capabilities offered by new UX technologies; and (2) to helping them identify and address serious design challenges posed by new UX technologies. As new UX technologies emerge, AR&ED activities are also required to develop design principles for their effective use, including the identification of tolerances, design parameters, risks, and other unforeseeable design issues. NBCC-MU must have tools to maintain a vigilant and continuous program of AR&ED to help companies (1) invalidate new UX technologies or (2) validate and leverage them successfully within their product and service development programs. The tools requested in this proposal will help the NBCC-MU meet these needs.** The principal investigator (PI) for this project, William McIver Jr., is NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (NSERC-IRCC) at New Brunswick Community College (NBCC).********