UWAC investigator and HCDE Professor Gary Hsieh and his Prosocial Computing Group are developing tools that help practitioners discover and apply research insights in their everyday work. Rather than leaving findings locked in academic papers, the group translates research into formats practitioners already use — design cards, Figma plug-ins, policy briefs, and short-form videos. Recent projects include Paper2Card,
Usability Issue Reporting Format Measures & Guidance > Usability > Usability Issue Reporting Format Across the UW ALACRITY Center, we seek to identify recurring usability issues with evidence-based practices and the services and systems designed to support or implement them, and to identify effective patterns for addressing those issues. The purpose of this guide is
Former UX Research & Design Lead Emily Friedman is a designer, researcher, and human factors/usability specialist. Focused on health care delivery, she has led product and service design efforts with an emphasis on user experience and ethnographic research. Emily earned her master’s in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute, holds a BS in Human Factors & Ergonomics from
Measures & Guidance > Usability > Usability Interviews & Task-based Usability Testing Usability issues are often best understood through a combination of interviews and task-based usability testing. Critical Incident Technique Interviews Sometimes, teams may be most interested in learning about usability issues that emerge only in complex, real-world situations, and that are hard to reproduce
Former Center ManagerAssistant Professor, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Brenna Renn was the inaugural UW ALACRITY Center Manager. Dr. Renn is a clinical geropsychologist who specializes in behavioral interventions for older adults, particularly in the context of depression, chronic disease, health promotion, and in integrated primary care behavioral health. Her research aims to improve
Former Co-Director, Methods Core Dr. Pullmann’s was previously co-director of the UW ALACRITY Center Methods Core. His research focuses on community-based and participatory approaches in cross-system collaborative efforts. He has a particular interest in illuminating policy decisions through longitudinal approaches to data analyses of large-scale administrative databases, and on more small-scale implementation and dissemination efforts. Dr.
Founding Director Dr. Areán is a leading behavioral scientist, with an expertise cross-cultural mental health, geriatric psychology, assessment and treatment of depression and anxiety, and in the use of technology to conduct surveys, user experience research and clinical trials to scale. Dr. Areán’s work focuses on creating and evaluating efficient, targeted and portable behavioral interventions
Community and Practice Advisory Board Susan Arvidson, MSE Saint Paul Public SchoolsMore about Susan Arvidson Tish Brookins, Ed.D, MSSW Jefferson County Public SchoolsMore about Tish Brookins Stephen Hydon, Ed.D, MSW University of Southern California School of Social WorkMore about Stephen Hydon Alicja Iznerowicz, MSW, LCSW U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsMore about Alicja Iznerowicz Kelcey Schmitz,
Science and Policy Board Marc S. Atkins, PhD University of Illinois at ChicagoMore about Dr. Atkins Sharon Hoover, PhD Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of MarylandMore about Dr. Hoover Michael Lindsey, PhD Department of Social Work, New York University Silver SchoolMore about Dr. Lindsey Larry Mauksch, MEd Collaborative Family Healthcare
Measures & Guidance > Usability > System, Intervention, and Implementation Strategy Usability Scales (SUS/IUS/ISUS) The Intervention Usability Scale (IUS), Implementation Strategy Usability Scale (ISUS), and System Usability Scale (SUS) are a set of related scales that support assessment of the usability of interventions, implementation strategies, and systems, where a system may be software program or paper