The document lists four resources related to human factors and usability: 1) the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society which promotes knowledge about human characteristics for system design, 2) the Usability Professionals Association which supports advocates for usability and user experience, 3) the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction which brings together people working on interactive systems for human use, and 4) a website with examples of poorly designed things that do not follow human factors principles.

1. Resources
• www.hfes.org - Human Factors & Ergonomics Society
● M ission: to prom the discovery and exchange of know
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concerning the characteristics of hum beings that are applicable to
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the design of system and devices of all kinds.
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• www.upassoc.org - Usability Professionals Association
● Supports those w prom and advance the developm of usable
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products, reaching out to people w act as advocates for usability and
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the user experience.
• www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi - ACM Special Interest Group in
Computer-Human Interaction
● Brings together people w orking on the design, evaluation,
implem entation, study of interactive computing system for hum use.
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• www.baddesigns.com - Examples of things that are hard to use
because they do not follow human factors principles
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