User Interface Evaluation
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Interfaces, built at the MPDL are subject to evaluation. Main focus are all interfaces of the current PubMan solution. Evaluation of the User Interface Engineering team has different approaches: Usability Interviews and tests, GUI Workshops and software based evaluation.
Usability Interviews[edit]
Setting:
Participants |
5 - 8 | |||||
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Supervisor |
1 - 2 | |||||
Equipment |
Equipment provided by UIE Team | |||||
Duration |
4h - 6h | |||||
Result |
A rough draft of a graphical user interface part. | |||||
Steps |
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Participants:1 Supervisor: 1 Duration: ~1h Equipment:
|- !bgcolor = #eee |Participants | 5 - 8 |- !bgcolor = #eee |Supervisor | 1 - 2 |- !bgcolor = #eee |Equipment | Equipment provided by UIE Team |- !bgcolor = #eee |Duration | 4h - 6h
|- !bgcolor = #eee |Result | A rough draft of a graphical user interface part. |- !bgcolor = #eee |Steps |
- Introduction to a GUI task
- Participants work on paper prototypes
- Question and Answers
- Comparison of Results
- Clustering
- Rework if necessary
- Preparation and dissamination of results
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Workshops[edit]
Initially the workshop for the short list view was not ment to deliver very much valid results, but when I put the pages from the whiteboard some things were striking. So I counted them for you:
1. Creators are mostly on the first position (18/23 Participants) 2. Title is mostly used as the second field (15/23 Participants) 2. File/Fulltext seems to have an outstanding position because it was placed differently on exposed positions or apart from the list (down, right, top) 3. Most participants prefer a vertical alignment of labels and fields (16/23)
Some participants tried to do a more sophisticated layout - which might mean that they do not like monotonous listings (just guessing).
Software based Evaluation[edit]
TBD