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Welcome To The Web Ergonomics Lab
The Web Ergonomics Lab is interested in how users interact with the World Wide Web (Web) and how the Web, through its design, technology and infrastructure, enables users to interact with it. WEL is involved in the experimentation of accessibility technology, visual attention, and the Web to address the problems of Web accessibility. We believe that by understanding disabled-user’s interaction we enhance our understanding of all users operating in constrained modalities where the user is handicapped by both environment and technology. It is for this reason that we see fundamental research into users with disabilities as a natural preface to wider human factors research. This means we are mainly working in the Web’s, so called, “long-tail” creating novel methods of making obfuscated structure, information, and semantics more explicit.
The research conducted within the Web Ergonomics Lab fits together as a series of dovetailing projects in areas covering semantics, transcoding, eye tracking and new Web technologies. These projects are funded by the UK research Councils, Industrial partners and the University of Manchester.
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- Call for review: Research Report on Web Accessibility Metrics
- Lab Member Becomes Member of W3C IndieUI Working Group
- Agile Software Engineering Course Designer
- Technical evaluation of the update classification system
- How the BBC builds scalable web applications