Collaborative research and development in user experience

用户体验（UX）专业人员现在经常参与我们每天使用的数百万应用程序的设计和评估，以确保它们创造最佳体验。为了保持加拿大在软件和IT领域的领导地位，行业需要通过开发高质量，易于学习和易于使用的界面来创新用户体验领域。工业界和学术界目前正面临着迫切需要关注的科学和工业挑战：随着技术的快速发展，与之相关的用户体验评估方法也应该如此。为了准确地捕捉用户在真实使用环境中的状态，需要研究开发丰富的用户体验测量，即加强现有自我管理的措施，报告的措施与措施，捕捉自动或潜意识的反应，以增加测量的时间分辨率，以掌握的全部程度，用户的情感、认知和注意力状态。与相关的工业研究主席（IRC）密切合作实施，该合作研究与开发（CRD）资助专注于人机交互和数据科学的研发，以获得对用户体验领域无与伦比的深入了解，以迄今为止无法达到的准确度来衡量用户体验，并创建加速用户体验领域研究所需的技术创新和分析工具，以帮助加拿大公司开发和优化其界面，并在全球范围内竞争。它还旨在促进技术创新，促进知识转让和加强高素质人才的培训。研究必须：i）提供更精确的用户体验评估，ii）在执行和交付方面加速丰富的用户体验评估过程，iii）在真实和自然的交互环境中执行这些评估。应用这项合作研究工作产生的新知识将使我们的加拿大行业合作伙伴能够改进他们的做法和界面，并获得独特的竞争优势。该研究还将使加拿大受益，因为这些优化的体验将对加拿大人的生产力和生活质量产生影响。

User Experience (UX) professionals are now routinely involved in the design and evaluation of the millions of apps that we use daily, to ensure they create an optimal experience. To maintain Canada's leadership in software and IT, industry needs to innovate in the field of UX by developing high-quality, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use interfaces. Industry and academia are currently facing scientific and industrial challenges requiring urgent attention: as technology evolves rapidly, so, too, should the UX evaluation methods associated with it. To accurately capture the user's states in authentic usage contexts, research is needed to develop enriched UX measures, i.e. measures that enhance existing self-reported measures with measures that capture automatic or subconscious reactions to increase the measurement temporal resolution in order to grasp the full extent of the user's affective, cognitive and attentional states throughout their experience. Implemented in close collaboration with an associated Industrial Research Chair (IRC), this Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant is focused on R&D in human-computer interaction and data science in order to gain an unparalleled, in-depth understanding of the field of UX, to measure the UX with a level of accuracy so far unattainable, and to create the technological innovations and analytical tools required to accelerate research in the field of UX for the purpose of helping Canadian firms develop and optimize their interfaces and compete on a global scale. It also aims to promote technological innovation, foster knowledge transfer and enhance the training of highly qualified personnel. Research is required to: i) offer a more precise evaluation of UX, ii) accelerate the enriched UX evaluation process in terms of execution and delivery and, iii) perform those evaluations in authentic and natural interaction contexts. Applying the new knowledge stemming from this collaborative research effort will enable our Canadian industry partners to improve their practices and interfaces and gain a unique competitive advantage. The research will also benefit Canada in that these optimized experiences will have an impact on the productivity and the quality of life of Canadians.