[{"id":2,"date":"2024-11-04T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ualrprd.wpengine.com\/crux\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:02:11","slug":"about-crux","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/","title":{"rendered":"About CRUX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-300x300.png\" alt=\"Crux logo\" class=\"wp-image-30\" style=\"width:249px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-109x109.png 109w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-162x162.png 162w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-271x271.png 271w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-444x444.png 444w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-684x684.png 684w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon-148x148.png 148w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/crux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/CRUX_Web_Art-Element-Brand-Maroon.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CRUX is a suite of research and development&nbsp;resources located within the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. It is a maker-space in every sense of the concept.&nbsp;We make knowledge through cutting edge research into the user experience.&nbsp;We make learning materials for our online and hybrid courses.&nbsp;We collect digital stories from the community and beyond.&nbsp;We make and test interfaces, from the printed interface of books and magazines to the digital interfaces of websites, blogs, apps, games, and simulations.&nbsp;We make sense of&nbsp;what it means to be a writer when writing takes place not only in conventional formats, but also with emojies, 140-character bursts, videos, and audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-can-we-do-for-you\">What Can We Do for You?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-students\">Students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lab assistantships<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Graduate and undergraduate research opportunities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Internships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-community\">Community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Digital facilities to help you improve your organization&#8217;s user experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital narrative lab to help you tell your story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-university\">University<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empirical facilities to enhance your research projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write CRUX into your grants, especially those products and projects that have an end-user component<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-business-community\">Business Community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Affordable research and recommendations about your user&#8217;s experience.&nbsp;Remember, every user has an experience with your product or service, and that experience colors how they perceive you, affects their loyalty, and impacts their ability to complete their transactions with&nbsp;you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Formative assessment of your agile product&#8217;s evolution, identifying UX problems before they become permanent and much harder to change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-labs-and-projects\">Labs and Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-digital-narrative-lab\">Digital Narrative Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Develop dynamic, engaged community storytelling with multimedia tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explore and play with digital narratives across forms\u2014including video, audio podcasting, and gaming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build your community organization&#8217;s digital presence by telling persuasive and powerful multimedia stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usability-lab\">Usability Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UXDesign<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lab-based and remote usability testing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eye-tracking research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heuristic Walkthroughs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ux-analysis-and-media-editing-lab\">UX Analysis and Media Editing Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Morae Manager<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Video and Audio editing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statistics package<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-game-design-and-simulation-lab\">Game Design and Simulation Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Training and educational simulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Game design for business and marketing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tabletop and real-world games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Narrative and story-based games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UI\/UX for physical and digital games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hybrid-education-research-and-development-lab\">Hybrid Education Research and Development Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>State of the art hybrid seminar space<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>video and audio production space for making short pod- and vod-casts for distance learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lux-light-and-user-experience-research-and-development-lab\">LUX (Light and User Experience) Research and Development Lab<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>High quality light panels calibrated for testing in all light conditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simulate a range of typical, and not-so-typical, lighting conditions to maximize user&#8217;s experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRUX is a suite of research and development&nbsp;resources located within the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. 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