NSF center aims to bolster security and trust in e-voting
It won't take much to improve on the current User Interface Design ...
"The National Science Foundation today awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to an interdisciplinary team from Rice University and five other top research institutions tasked with evaluating flaws in current e-voting technology and with developing both technical standards and new e-voting systems that are easy to use and virtually impossible to tamper with.
Rice human factors expert Michael Byrne, assistant professor of psychology, will explore the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional paper ballots, punchcards, lever voting machines and e-voting machines. Byrne's group will compare several measures for the various systems, including time taken to vote, actual error rates in voting, and whether voters felt confident that their votes were recorded correctly. The human factors researchers will both help guide the ACCURATE research teams working to develop superior voting systems and measure the new designs.
"Voting is a particularly challenging human factors problem because voting systems must be usable by citizens regardless of age, disability, education, socioeconomic status, history of computer use, literacy level, native language and the like," Byrne said. "Only a handful of studies have been conducted on this, and usability and accessibility standards and guidelines are nonexistent." continued ... (Via i-Newswire)
"The National Science Foundation today awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to an interdisciplinary team from Rice University and five other top research institutions tasked with evaluating flaws in current e-voting technology and with developing both technical standards and new e-voting systems that are easy to use and virtually impossible to tamper with.
Rice human factors expert Michael Byrne, assistant professor of psychology, will explore the efficiency and effectiveness of traditional paper ballots, punchcards, lever voting machines and e-voting machines. Byrne's group will compare several measures for the various systems, including time taken to vote, actual error rates in voting, and whether voters felt confident that their votes were recorded correctly. The human factors researchers will both help guide the ACCURATE research teams working to develop superior voting systems and measure the new designs.
"Voting is a particularly challenging human factors problem because voting systems must be usable by citizens regardless of age, disability, education, socioeconomic status, history of computer use, literacy level, native language and the like," Byrne said. "Only a handful of studies have been conducted on this, and usability and accessibility standards and guidelines are nonexistent." continued ... (Via i-Newswire)
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