The human factor in gadget, Web design (cNET)
"Design is starting to change who succeeds and who fails," said Alonso Vera, a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center who's also a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ask Dr. Usability (ACM Interactions)
For an example of using cognitive modeling in combination with other methods, see the CHI2007 Experience report, "When Two Methods Are Better Than One: Combining User Study with Cognitive Modeling" by Andrea Knight; you can find that one in the ACM digital library.
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NASA Artificial Intelligence Could Help Astronauts Work More Efficiently in Space (NASA Feature)
"The Mars Exploration Rover activity planning has taken the human team on Earth about one-and-a-half hours every day for each of the two rovers, " said Alonso Vera, who leads a group developing artificial intelligence software at NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. "Our goal is to reduce planning time to about 10 minutes for a typical Mars surface mission, and we are a good part of the way there now," he ventured.
