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In article <9309291133 -dot- AA17347 -at- sappey -dot- grenoble -dot- hp -dot- com>, Popowicz Alison
<popowicz -at- sappey -dot- grenoble -dot- hp -dot- com> wrote:
> Hello! I don't know if I've introduced myself (can't remember - I've
> been 'lurking' for a while): my name's Alison, I work for Hewlett-Packard
> in Grenoble, France. My job responsibilities include both user documentation
> and product usability... are any of you involved in usability work?
> And does anyone know of a usability/human factors list?
Allison, When I worked at HP in Sunnyvale (and wrote Vectra manuals) we had
a usability/HF lab. I know some of the work done there was transferred to
other divisions, but there's got to be some historical info about what we
did somewhere.