Usage of IsoMetrics
For commercial usage of the IsoMetrics Questionnaire we offer a
fixed-term contract (250 Euro p.a.). After conclusion of the contract you
will get the german or english language questionnaire incl. manual (pdf files
including questionnaire short version, supporting a summative evaluation
approach, a long version supporting formative evaluation). The contract has
to be refreshed after a one years period.
For scientific use we draw up special agreements:
The aggreement implies free application of the questionnaire and manual
confined only to your research. If possible a data agreement for further validation of IsoMetrics is made. To obtain IsoMetrics
under this condition a descripition of your project and
a notice that you will use IsoMetrics only for your research is required.
User of IsoMetrics
- The Institute for Communication and Collaborative Systems, Division of Informatics, University Edinburgh uses IsoMetrics for teaching purposes (since 2001). Contact: Mr. Rob Procter.
- Fachhochschule Furtwangen, Fachbereich "Product Engineering", Intranet Usability (diploma thesis, Ch. Huber). Contact: Mr. Christian Huber.
- Universitätsklinikum Giessen, Application of IsoMetrics in a research project dealing with job characteristics an its consequences on employees (since 2001). Contact: Mrs. Birgit Gottwald.
- Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft RWTH Aachen. Application of IsoMetrics in a research project ("Anwendergerechte Gestaltung von Benutzungsschnittstellen" (Teilprojekt 3) since 2001. Contact: Mrs. J. Witte
- Mobi-doc. IsoMetrics is applied to evaluate interfaces of handheld computer in medical use (2001). Contact: Mr. H.-B. Bludau.
- Colonia: The Colonia Bausparkasse uses IsoMetrics to improve the
software quality of their in-house software products (1997). Contact: Mr.
Hoffmeister.
- Ergonomic Institut: The Ergonomic Institut (Berlin; Dr. A. Cakir)
uses IsoMetrics in practice since 1996.
Information is gathered by
Mr. Cakir.
- RECALL: The EC sponsored project
RECALL has used
IsoMetrics to evaluate the usability of a CALL system called
CASTLE. Some of the results of this study are available in a
paper by Gediga & Hamborg: Heuristische Evaluation und IsoMetrics: Ein Vergleich.
- REKSoft Ltd; Sankt Petersburg; Russia has been using the Russian
adaptation of IsoMetrics since January 1997. Contact:
Vitali Rudowitsch, REKSoft.
- University of Ulster: Since 1996 several software
usability experiments were performed using IsoMetrics at the School
of Information and Software Engineering, Newtonabbey. Contact:
Prof. Ivo Düntsch.
- SAP: The software developing company SAP (Walldorf) has been a
beta user of IsoMetrics (since 1995). The ergonomic department of the company
uses IsoMetrics to evaluate the usability of the R/3 system. Quite a few
(internal) studies have been done using the current version of
IsoMetrics.
Editor: Günther Gediga, Kai-Christoph Hamborg