| ESRI leads workpackage 4: User Interface: Design and models for evaluation and workpackage 7: Guidelines and Web-Authoring tool. |
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ESRI (the Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute) at Loughborough University focuses on shaping technology to human needs and capabilities. ESRI has particular expertise in using human factors methods and tools for requirements capture and evaluation of systems and products for people who are elderly or disabled.
The staff consists of a team of professional researchers and consultants, offering a unique mix of skills in ergonomics, psychology,
information technology and engineering.
ESRI is an amalgamation of the HUSAT Research Institute and ICE Ergonomics at Loughborough University. Staff at the Institute have worked over the last 30 years in a wide range of application areas, including interface design and product development, as well as the broader areas of organisational behaviour and industrial psychology. The Human Focused Design Centre, within ESRI, has a particular focus on designing for people who are older or who have disabilities, as well as for their professional and informal guides and carers.
Within this context, the Institute has a long history in applied research and development projects within the European Union, e.g., in USER, CASA, SCALP, VICAID (TIDE), and RESPECT, IN-USE, INCLUDE, TELSCAN and DISCUS (in Framework IV).
Of particular interest to the WWAAC consortium, ESRI acted as project co-ordinator for the USER project, which developed a handbook of user-centred design methods and tools for assistive technologies.
