This Jolanda Tromp seems interesting. Se works on "the development of structured methods to collect quantitative and qualitative usability evaluation data for novel artefacts. Involved in developing methods for rapid usability assessment of new technologies. Research involves task analysis, user requirements specification, experimental design, data analysis, study of user behaviour and classification of future technologies"Gotta find these papers: - Tromp, J.G. (2001). Systematic Usability Design and Evaluation for Collaborative Virtual Environments, PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham, UK. - Stedmon, A., D'Cruz, M., Tromp, J.G., Wilson, J., (2003). Two Methods and a Case Study: Human Factors Evaluations for Virtual Environments, in: Proceedings of HCI International (HCII03), Greece.