User Study

Testing Room

The Smart Center’s Testing Room provides a controlled environment for observing how individuals interact with technology, applications, and digital health tools.

The room features a one-way observation window, allowing researchers and faculty to observe participants in real time without disrupting their natural behavior. This setup creates a comfortable testing environment while still capturing valuable data about usability, decision-making, and user experience.

Students and researchers can use the space for:

  • Usability testing of apps, websites, and software
  • Research on digital health tools and telehealth platforms
  • Observational studies and behavioral research
  • Human-computer interaction experiments
  • Recording user interactions during tasks or simulations

The testing room is part of the Smart Center’s mission to support innovation, research, and student engagement with emerging technologies.

Person observing a user using the testing room

Eye Tracking Glasses

The Smart Center offers eye tracking glasses that capture real-time, first-person visual attention. This technology records exactly what the wearer sees while tracking where their eyes focus within the environment.

By analyzing gaze patterns and attention points, researchers and educators can better understand how individuals interact with tasks, technology, and real-world environments.

Eye tracking glasses support a wide range of applications, including observational research, simulation training, human behavior studies, and usability testing. This technology provides valuable insights into decision-making, task performance, and visual attention in authentic settings.

Pair of goggles
Student using eye tracking glasses while observing training

Screen-Based Eye Tracker

The Smart Center offers a screen-based eye tracking system that allows researchers and students to study how people visually interact with digital information. By tracking eye movement in real time, the system reveals where users focus their attention, how they process information, and how they make decisions when using digital tools.

This technology is widely used in research, healthcare education, usability testing, and cognitive studies. The eye tracker can help analyze how users read screens, interact with applications, or interpret complex information.

Example Uses

  • Understanding how students read digital materials
  • Studying how clinicians interpret patient data or dashboards
  • Testing the usability of healthcare software
  • Research on attention, decision-making, and visual behavior

This technology supports innovative research and hands-on learning experiences for students and faculty across multiple disciplines.

Eye tracker device on a monitor
Person utilizing eye tracker on screen

Demonstration and Usability Recording

The Smart Center provides access to a high-resolution document camera that supports teaching, research, and student learning. This system allows users to capture clear overhead images and video of documents, mobile devices, and small equipment during demonstrations or usability testing.

The camera records detailed interactions such as hand movements, gestures, and device handling, making it useful for studying how individuals interact with mobile applications, digital health tools, and other small devices.

Faculty and students can also use the system to demonstrate clinical tools, record instructional content, or present materials in a way that is easy for audiences to see and understand.

Common uses include:

  • Mobile application usability testing
  • Demonstrating clinical tools or small devices
  • Recording instructional demonstrations
  • Presenting diagrams or documents clearly
  • Capturing research prototypes or materials

The system can display live demonstrations on a monitor or record video for later review and analysis.

Mobility Camera in use