Home | Research | Research Programs | People-Centred Technologies

People-Centred Technologies

The research group’s focus is on human factors for the Web, where the Web is defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as the universe of network-accessible information. We are particularly interested in the following themes:

• Usability (understanding users and developers)
• Portability (anywhere — anytime computing)
• Internationalization (language, culture, localization)
• Accessibility (abilities and disabilities - physical, financial)
• Collaboration

Current Projects

• Interaction Techniques for Mobile and Wearable Technology
• Knowledge Collaboration
• Maliseet Online
• Metaxtract: Text Data Structuring Project
• Omnivore
• Online Questionnaire Design
• Systematic Methods of Tool Evaluation
• The Community Intermediaries Research Project (CIRP)
• Usable Policy Configuration
• Voice and Multimodal Access to Web Services

For additional information, please communicate with the Research Contact listed below or see the People-Centred Technologies Group page.

Research Contact

Dr. Irina Kondratova
Group Leader
People-Centred Technologies
NRC Institute for Information Technology
46 Dineen Drive
Fredericton, NB E3B 9W4
Telephone: +1 (506) 444-0489
Fax: +1 (506) 452-3859
E-mail: Irina.Kondratova@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Marc-Alain Mallet
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, New Brunswick
NRC Institute for Information Technology
46 Dineen Drive
Fredericton, NB E3B 9W4
Telephone: +1 (506) 444-0394
Fax: +1 (506) 452-3859
E-mail: Marc-Alain.Mallet@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca