About the KCC|NMA Usability Research Project

A student run group resarch project continuing the study initiated by Heidi Adkisson as part of her Master's thesis project

This research project is part of a New Media Arts course at Kapi'olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawai'i entitled Information Architecture. In this class students study the organization and presentation of content and interface elements in web design. By looking at existing web sites, restructuring their content, and redesigning their interfaces students learn to work with complex information systems, to indentify and define different navigation systems and techniques, and to develop a site structure of their own that meets the needs of both the client and target audiences.

As part of the curriculum for this course, students take on individual tasks of collecting and analyzing data while updating this web site to showcase their findings. The students and faculty at KCC would like to thank Heidi Adkisson for initiating this study in 2002 and for making her data results public on her website. Her data are essential in providing for us a framework within which to conduct our research and a reference from 2002 to which we can compare our own findings. Be sure to check out her sites: www.webdesignpractices.com. and www.hpadkisson.com.