NISTIR 7432
Common Industry Specification
for Usability - Requirements
Information Access Division
Information Technology Laboratory
June 2007
NISTIR 7432
6/28/2007
NISTIR 7432
Common Industry Specification for
Usability - Requirements
Industry Usability Reporting Project Working Group
Mary Theofanos, Chair, Working Group
U.S. Department of Commerce
Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary
Technology Administration
Robert Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology
William Jeffrey, Director
NISTIR 7432
6/28/2007
Industry Usability Reporting Project
In October of 1997, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated an effort to
increase the visibility of software usability, the Industry USability Reporting (IUSR) Project1. Cooperating in
the IUSR project are prominent suppliers of software and representatives from large consumer organizations.
The IUSR project is a product of the Visualization and Usability Group, Information Access Division, of
Information Technology Laboratory. The IUSR goals are to:
the
• Encourage software supplier and purchaser organizations to work together to understand user needs
and tasks;
• Perform standardization activities;
• Create extensions/variations to the Common Industry Format (CIF) in areas such as requirements,
formative testing, testing with hardware.
Common Industry Specification for Usability- Requirements Working Group Members
Nigel Bevan
nigelbevan.com
Jennifer Duncan
Boeing
Keith Butler
Microsoft Global Services Automation
Steve Fadden
Landmark College
George Hackman
Oracle
Scott Isensee
BMC
Sharon Laskowski
NIST
Arnie Lund
Microsoft
Emile Morse
NIST
Whitney Quesenbery Whitney Interactive Design
Jean Scholtz
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, previously at NIST
Brian Stanton
NIST
Kent Sullivan
Microsoft Corporat