The Human Web Group's Research Page
Research Applications
NB Enterprise Mapper - Summer 2003
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NB Enterprise Mapper is part of the Metaxtract project, and was created by co-op student Mike
Cote under the supervision of Anna Maclachlan of the IIT Human Web Group at NRC
Fredericton. It was created in the summer of 2003. A collection of about 2000
New Brunswick companies can be searched using either keyword or NAICS sector.
The locations (counties) of the matching companies are displayed on the map, and
additional information about the companies is displayed in the area below the
map.
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Security On-line Survey 2004
We encounter various risks when we use the Internet. The
computer software we use to access the Internet has features intended to help us
recognize some of the risks, and to help us manage them. It is not yet known
whether people find these features to be helpful, or whether they use the
features effectively.
The purpose of this study is to explore this issue further.
We would like to learn about how you perceive various risks, how you relate to
them, and how (or if) you use the features available to help you manage them.
Your participation would help us develop tools and technologies better suited to
most people that would, over time, ultimately help make the Internet a more
trustworthy place.
The survey closed on 27 September 2004. During that time,
about 470 visitors viewed our consent page. Of those, 367 gave their consent to
participate and 237 persevered to the end, submitting answers to the
questionnaire. The average time taken to complete the questionnaire was about 20
minutes. We logged a total of 109 hours of interaction with our questionnaire
(that's more than 4.5 days), most of which was time donated to our project by
strangers. Those who completed the questionnaire account for more than 77 of
those hours (more than three days of effort). Needless to say, we are very
grateful to all those who participated.
We are currently analyzing the results. The original call for participation is
included below to provide historical context.
Teaching
Designing for Multimodality (CS6905) -
Fall 2004
Course Objective: At the end of this course students should
have a good understanding of the many different issues that are related to the
design of multimodal systems. A multimodal system is an interactive system that
allows a user to interact using different input and/or output techniques (or
modalities). Examples of such modalities are gesture input and haptic feedback.
Topics covered include the fundamental concepts behind multimodal interaction;
context and its impact on multimodal systems; user interface architectures;
knowledge elicitation and modelling; multimodal design and experimental design.
About This Page
The Human Web group is a research group at the National Research Council of
Canada's (NRC) Institute of Information Technology (IIT) based in Fredericton,
NB. The group's official website can be found on the NRC-IIT
website.
This page contains links to the group's work that are not required to be placed
on pages that conform to the Common Look and Feel (CLF) of other Federal
Government sites including teaching and research prototypes.
