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Information Technology

Visualization research

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

Usability Standards

Ongoing
We participate on the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 and ISO/TC 159/SC 4 as the WG28 Joint Working Group, US delegation co-convener, to develop standards for usability documentation. This family of standards provide a definition of the type and scope of formats and the high-level structure to be used for

Voting Systems Usability and Accessibility

Ongoing
The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) gave NIST a key role in helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems. NIST performs research that examines the role of human factors in the design and application of next generation voting systems, including assistive technologies for individuals
Steven Satterfield in the NIST CAVE

Visualization

Ongoing
Current visualization technology provides a full range of hardware and techniques from static two-dimensional plots, to interactive three-dimensional images projected onto a monitor, to large screen fully immersive systems allowing the user to interact on a human scale. Immersive virtual reality

Sensing and Imaging of concealed objects

Ongoing
Threats to personal and collective safety abound in our society. The Security Technologies Group (STG) performs research to advance the technology and measurement science of security imaging and sensing. This work includes the establishment of test and evaluation tools, reference test beds, test

Publications

Software

Dual rheometer simulation visualization in the NIST CAVE

HEV: High End Visualization

We have developed a virtual measurement and analysis laboratory in a 3D immersive virtual environment using a CAVE hardware configuration and a software

Video Analytic Quality Measurement Tools

This Tool set has been created to facilitate video quality metric research and foster future R&D. Development was sponsored as part of video quality research by

OpenSceneGraph Multi-card Scaling Test

We have observed a problem with OpenSceneGraph (OSG) in which parallel, multi-threaded, applications do not scale properly to multiple graphics cards. The