Towards standard methods and metrics for evaluating IA

["Livia Labate" <liv AT livlab.com>]

Rashmi & all,

I didn't get a chance to read the emails about the IA Metrics project yet
(sorry!), but I received the email below from Keith Instone through CHI-WEB
and I thought it could be a good idea for AIfIA to participate through the
IA Metrics group.

I volunteered to participate individually, but I would rather do it through
this group/AIfIA, because it I feel that we could have a nice resource for
metrics from the usability world through this Usability Interest Group since
many other groups will be participating.

Just a thought for you to consider.

Livia Labate
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liv AT livlab.com | www.livlab.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Instone" <keith AT INSTONE.ORG>
To: <CHI-WEB AT ACM.ORG>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: [CHI-WEB] Survey: gauging interest in the "W3C usability interest
group"


Some members of the human-computer interaction community are trying
to establish a way to help the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
address usability issues with the web.

NIST hosted a workshop in conjunction with W3C to develop a plan for this.

Read about the workshop here: http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/uig_w3c/

We are gathering data about who else is interested in participating
in the proposed W3C Usability Interest Group.

Please fill out this survey so that we can gauge the level of interest.



1. What company or institution do you work for?


2. Is this company or institution currently a member of W3C? (Check
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List if you are not sure)

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not sure

2a. If your company is a member, how confident are you that someone
from your company would participate in a MEMBER-only W3C working
group on usability?

[ ] Very confident someone from my company would participate
[ ] Confident that someone from my company would participate
[ ] Not sure one way or the other
[ ] Confident that no one from my company would participate
[ ] Very confident that no one from my company would participate

2b. If you company is NOT a member of W3C, how confident are you that
your company would consider membership if W3C started addressing
usability issues?

[ ] Very confident that my company would join
[ ] Confident that my company would join
[ ] Not sure one way or the other
[ ] Confident that my company would NOT join
[ ] Very confident that my company would NOT join

FYI: Here is information on W3C membership -
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining - including the
annual costs for full and affiliate members.


3. Whether your company or institution is a member of W3C or not, how
interested are you in participating as an individual in a PUBLIC
usability interested group? (This is what is currently proposed - any
individual can participate.)

[ ] Very interested
[ ] Interested
[ ] Not sure yet
[ ] Probably not interested
[ ] Not interested at all


4. OPTIONAL. Provide your contact information if you are interested
in learning more about these activities.

Name:
Email:



Please send your replies to me (not the list). A summary of the
results will be shared with the list and used to help continue the
push for the Usability Interest Group.

Thanks in advance.
--
keith AT instone.org        http://keith.instone.org/

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