UX Testing and Usability Labor

Intro

In order to enable all common usability survey methods and to map complex user experience processes - the UX testing and usability lab offers the optimal space for this. With its specific equipment, the laboratory is designed for a wide range of applications in teaching and applied research.

Laboratory team: Prof. Dr. Andrea Kohlhase (opens in a new window)
Stefan Rogg
Centre for Media & User Experience: Prof. Danny Franzreb (opens in a new window)
Prof. Patricia Franzreb (opens in a new window)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Brandstetter (opens in a new window)

Main areas of research: Consumer and working worlds
Mobility
Location: A.1.61
Trainings: In our e-learning course "UX Testing and Usability Lab" you will find a public calendar for this.
Contact: via e-mail

Aktuelle Informationen

Opening: The UX testing and usability laboratory is available again for the following use cases, taking into account the security concept:
- Studies for Bachelor theses
- Studies for Master Theses
- Practical courses (incl. teaching)

Security concept for the COVID19 pandemic: Please note and follow the security measures from the " (opens in a new window)Sicherheitskonzept des UX-Testing und Usability Labors zur COVID19-Pandemie" (opens in a new window).

Topics and fields of application research, teaching, transfer

User experience of a product (test planning, execution and analysis)
User Centered Design
Human Machine Interaction
Usability Consulting & Evaluation
Emotion recognition
Interactive, technical documents
Media design
User and usage behaviour
Business and consumer journalism

Specific laboratory equipment and facilities

The special feature of the laboratory is that it is equipped with several state-of-the-art eye tracking systems, which record the fixation points of the eyes and their saccades (eye movements) and thus make them analysable. The stationary eye tracker enables the efficient analysis of screen-based applications such as websites or software systems. The evaluation of the recorded data is easier to implement thanks to the beginner-friendly software, especially for students and people who are not specialised in user experience.

Emotion analysis complements the stationary test setup. It analyses the facial expressions of the test subjects and uses an algorithm to calculate their emotions in detail. This allows exclusive insights to be gained into unconscious, unfiltered reactions.

Advanced methods for UX Testing and Usability Analysis

Tablet or smartphone applications can be analysed with smaller eye trackers. Eye tracking glasses from Pupil Labs are used in mobile scenarios outside the laboratory. This opens up a wide range of possibilities for testing different test objects (e.g. games consoles, navigation systems, etc.) in free and informal test situations. Thanks to the lightweight design of the Pupil Labs eye tracking glasses, they can be worn like normal glasses (even by people who already wear glasses) and can therefore be used for eye observation in safety-critical scenarios such as driving a car.

The laboratory is also equipped with a range of technical aids such as remote-controlled, high-resolution ceiling cameras, boundary microphones and several monitors.