title: A mobile tool for accessibility and usability testing of medical instrumentation.
abstract: The Mobile Usability Lab (MU-Lab) is a tool developed by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation (RERC-AMI) to study the accessibility and usability of medical devices by people with diverse abilities. The system includes a suite of data collection hardware components and a custom software interface to help coordinate problem identification and planning as well as data collection and analysis for usability and accessibility research of medical devices. Hardware components include a laptop computer, data acquisition card, video cameras, quad video processor and wireless microphones. Software components include a customized Web-based usability suite, real-time data collection package and several video editing and data analysis tools.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Lemke
authors.forename: Jack M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Winters
authors.forename: Sarma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Danturthi
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Molly Follette
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Story
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rempel