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Linux package that describes simple sensors to enable people with limited movement to signal a PC.
http://home.freeuk.net/skipperproject
How to interface humans and artificial minds. Includes links.
http://mind.sourceforge.net/hci.html
An application designed to create tactile sensations based on images.
http://www.ifeelpixel.com
A program designed to evaluate navigational structures of Web sites or other information spaces, based on card sorting technique. Includes a FAQ, and free download.
http://www.infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/classified/
The Memex Simulator is an open source project, implementing Vannevar Bush's concept of an automated information retrieval mechanism.
http://memexsim.sourceforge.net/
Software tool for Windows application developers offering solutions for testing and evaluating the usability.
http://www.ergolight-sw.com/
Ergonomic training and risk assessment for computer workstation users. Support for Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992 and SCORM compliant. Includes a demo and company information.
http://www.e-officesafety.co.uk/
A set of software services that supports the presentation of software agents as interactive personalities within the Microsoft Windows interface. Conversational interfaces, software agents, and interactive characters.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msagent/default.asp
Bobby is a commercial Windows-based tool to analyze web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities.
http://bobby.watchfire.com/
A commercial software product to conduct usability tests. Consists of two components, a customized Web browser that logs user activity and an Internet based data collection and aggregation server.
http://www.uzilla.net/
Free open source software from Uzilla providing card sorting technique and heuristic evaluations.
http://uzilla.mozdev.org/
A Java package for making fully input-reconfigurable interactive applications. It allows to build and test a large number of interaction techniques that make use of enriched or impoverished physical input devices.
http://www.emn.fr/x-info/icon
A Java-based card sorting application. It supports Open Card Sorting and Closed Card Sorting techniques. The results can be analysed with EZCalc (IBM Tool).
http://www.cardsort.net
The site gives an overview of the toolkit. The Automatic Mental Model Evaluation software helps reconstructing and analyzing the user's interactive task-solving process by transforming log-files.
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/homepages/mrauterb/amme.html
A Java-based Open Source application supporting open and closed card sorts. The software includes two separate tools - a sorting tool for the participants and an administration/analysis tool for the information architect to setup the card sort and analyze the results.
http://cardsword.sourceforge.net/