|HFP 
          Teleconference
          Friday, August 4, 2006 
          2:00 pm EDT
        Participants: 
          Allan Eustis, Sharon Laskowski, David Flater, John Cugini, Alexis Scott-Morrison, 
          Whitney Quesenbery, Jim Elekes, David Baquis, Philip Pearce-(Access 
          Board Nominee), Tricia Mason-(Access Board Nominee), Adam Ambrogi-(EAC), 
          Commissioner, Donetta Davidson-(EAC), Wendy Havens
        Agenda:
        
        0. 
            TGDC and EAC updates, Allan Eustis
          1. 
            Summary of the August, 1st USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting workshop, 
            <http://www.usenix.org/events/evt06/tech/>, 
            Sharon Laskowski
          2. 
            Status report on new VVSG 2007 HFP draft progress, John Cugini
          3. 
            Other progress and items, Sharon Laskowski
        Meeting 
          commenced at 2:04 pm EDT
        TGDC/EAC 
          Updates:
        AE-posting 
          of Dr. Jeffrey's testimony on the web page; See: <http://vote.nist.gov/jeffrey_science20060719.pdf>. 
          Also archived web cast of entire hearing is available for viewing at: 
          <http://boss.streamos.com/real/science/sci06/071906.smi>
        Electronic 
          Voting Technology 2006 (EVT'06) Workshop, Vancouver:
        SL-reviews 
          discussion and her presentation on usability, Making Ballot Language 
          Understandable to Voters; Co-author Ginny Redish was in attendance along 
          with Sharon Laskowski for the August 1st workshop. (Her presentation 
          slides are available for review at: http://vote.nist.gov/EVT06understandable.pdf.) 
          The paper:
        discussed 
              importance of clear ballot language in the voting process
            noted complex 
              issues re language, whether working with electronic or paper ballots; 
              understanding of the instructions is critical to "voting success", 
              Considering the complexity of usability issues voters might (themselves) 
              have
            Twenty seven 
              recommended guidelines discussed via examples
            better "best 
              practices" should be in place; context within the instructions; 
              recognizing the relevance a voter puts on visual and/or audible 
              instructions
            other papers 
              delivered at USENIX also discussed- proximity errors with DREs. 
              There were security related papers as well.
        Status 
          Report on new HFP draft progress:
        JC-reports 
          on rough draft of the next VVSG (2007) HFP sections. Currently heavily 
          annotated ; presentation and HFP discussions were on various guideline 
          issues, which included definition of what cognitive disability would 
          mean in a broad sense; also discussion of "human readable" 
          versus bar codes (not readable); other topics included usability and 
          its limitations; general situations which include but not limited to:
        
        a) 
            audio vs. video
            b) print size for legibility purposes
            c) instructions and how "user friendly" they should be
            d) if color and graphics would be useful
        An 
          early draft of HFP guidelines for 2007 will be sent around in August 
          to HFP for review and initial comment.
        Discussion 
              of Common Industry Format (CIF) in 2005 VVSG as a heads up to vendors 
              to present data this way.
        Other 
          items:
        NIST monthly 
              meeting with the EAC: brought up matter of seeking clarity from 
              EAC on sub committee work to avoid future guideline ambiguities.
            SL discussed 
              response time for voting machines and vendor input. (White paper 
              sent out to sub committee earlier); time for notification: between 
              call for action and voter response, standards in IEEE P1583; 3 seconds, 
              3-10 seconds (alert action) , greater than 10 seconds. (JC suggested 
              one second response time for VVSG 2007.
            Usability 
              bench mark testing progress: We are two to four weeks away from 
              OMB survey approval.
            SL noted that 
              an RFP for ballot language research will be out in a week.
            SL coordinated 
              with Adam Ambrogi of EAC. She will meet with two AIGA representatives 
              next week to discuss, among other issues, usability methodology; 
              AM noted that Nebraska is also working with AIGA on ballot design.
            WQ and DD 
              discussed University of Utah study and voter perception versus error 
              analysis of observational data. JC noted that you may find error 
              rates higher than expected.
        Next 
          HFP meeting scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th at 11:00 AM EST
        Meeting 
          Adjourned at 2:45 pm EDT.
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