ETR556: UX RESEARCH METHODS COURSE
Summer 2018
ETR556 UX Research Methods course was offered in Summer 2018 semester at the Northern Illinois University. UX research technologies in UX Lab are investigated and implemented pilot studies by the students.
Instructional manuals and videos were produced by the students as shown below.
Instructional manuals and videos were produced by the students as shown below.
Brain Wave Monitoring System with 16 Channels
The first known neurophysiologic recordings were of animals and performed by Richard Caton in1875. The advent of recording the electrical activity of human beings took another half century to occur. Hass Berger, a German psychiatrist, pioneered the EEG in humans in 1924 (St. Louis, EK, Frey, LC (Eds.), 2016). His work paved the way for present day technology in this field.
The brain is one of the most vital organs of the human body and is a collection of interconnected neurons that decide human behavior (Basker, E., 1998). Understanding functional and cognitive behavior of the human brain is not only an interesting area but important topic for medical researchers to study in order to find out a better solution for various brain related issues (Palaniappan, R., & Raveendran, P., 2001)
The brain is one of the most vital organs of the human body and is a collection of interconnected neurons that decide human behavior (Basker, E., 1998). Understanding functional and cognitive behavior of the human brain is not only an interesting area but important topic for medical researchers to study in order to find out a better solution for various brain related issues (Palaniappan, R., & Raveendran, P., 2001)
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Brain Wave Monitoring System with 5 Channels
Emotiv was founded in 2011, and has quickly become one of the biggest EEG hardware companies around. They currently offer two headsets that can detect various emotional states, and can be used for brain-computer interfaces. We will be looking at the 5 sensor EmotivPRO v1.3.0 The company's goal was to “empower individuals to understand their own brain and accelerate brain research globally”, they certainly seem to be on track.
Some suggested uses for this type of technology
Biomedical Engineering
Some suggested uses for this type of technology
Biomedical Engineering
- Studying brain waves for moving robotic limbs
- Consumer neuroscience to investigate an users engagement and motivation in real world applications
- Market research testing product and brand effectiveness
- Website usability testing
- Measuring cognitive load during training or instruction
- Medical diagnosis
- Neurobiological research
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Remote Eye Tracking System (Group 1)
Eye tracking technology can be described as the scientific technology of using the movement information of the human eyes to determine where an individual is looking at, what the individual is looking at and how long the gaze is on a particular spot. The eye tracker technology enables researchers to record eye position and movement based on the optical tracking of the reflections produced by the cornea (Liu et al., 2017). Eye tracking is conducted by a remote system that is attached to the screen.
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Remote Eye Tracking System (Group 2)
The ultimate goal of user experience (UX) research is to understand a user’s point of view. It assesses how people interact with technology (or documents or any of a number of things) regardless of the intent of the creator. In this sense, UX research bridges the purpose of a product with actual success in use.
Eye tracking has existed for well over 100 years and is an extremely valuable tool in UX research. Originally developed to analyze how people read and access information on a page, eye tracking is essentially the process of identifying where a person is focusing their eyes. More than a general direction where someone is “looking”, eye tracking pinpoints someone’s visual focus moment-to-moment. Because it allows researchers to see through the eyes of the user, it has a broad range of modern applications, from education and sports to medicine and technology.
Eye tracking has existed for well over 100 years and is an extremely valuable tool in UX research. Originally developed to analyze how people read and access information on a page, eye tracking is essentially the process of identifying where a person is focusing their eyes. More than a general direction where someone is “looking”, eye tracking pinpoints someone’s visual focus moment-to-moment. Because it allows researchers to see through the eyes of the user, it has a broad range of modern applications, from education and sports to medicine and technology.
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Mobile Eye Tracking System
Mobile eye tracker technology consists recording and the gaze behaviors of a study subjects.It is used to capture and analyze the direction of subject's gazes, as well as the movements of their eyes and heads, in experimental situations. Using this technology, the researchers can record where the eyes of the subjects are attracted to (Magnussen, Zachariassen, Kharlamov, & Larsen, 2017). In education, mobile eye-tracking technology is used to identify how much of students’ time is devoted to the material lectured in the classroom. In addition, from the perspective of the instructor of class main inhibitors of students’ concentration can be recognized.
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