Announcement of Public Meeting of the Industry Usability Reporting Project (IUSR)

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 43355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20572]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Announcement of Public Meeting of the Industry Usability 
Reporting Project (IUSR)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Third Workshop of the Industry Usability Reporting Project 
will be held as a forum for introducing a newly developed format for 
reporting usability testing results and for explaining the requirements 
for participating in an eighteen-month pilot testing of this format. 
Industry partners are invited to join this effort to standardize the 
method by which software usability reports are generated. The goal of 
the on-going effort is to develop a Common Usability Format (CIF), 
which, if used for exchanging information between software vendors and 
software consumer organizations, will have positive impacts on the 
Total Cost of Ownership of software. More information about the IUSR 
Project can be obtained at: www.nist.gov/itl/div894/vvrg/iusr.
    Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 272 et seq., the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST) cooperates with industry to accelerate 
the development of technologies that allow intuitive, efficient access, 
manipulation and exchange of complex information by facilitating the 
creation of measurement methods and standards.

DATES: The meeting will be held September 14(8:30 am--5 pm) and 
September 15 (8:30 am--12:30 pm), 1999.

ADDRESS: The meeting will take place at the Oracle Conference Center, 
350 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Laskowski, NIST, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 8940, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8940. Telephone (301) 
975-4535 or E-mail sharon.laskowski@nist.gov.

    Dated: August 4, 1999.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 99-20572 Filed 8-9-99; 8:45 am]
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