Website usability
The following papers were useful in constructing a good evaluation of the website. As in all literature reviews, there is a lot of chaff to sift from the wheat... Please add to it as you see fit.
- Inquiry-Based Design
- So far this is the one most applicable to what I believe we should try to do. It describes a continual process of updating and revising the website. I don't believe we have to follow the program line by line (particularly the "prototyping" phase) but it a good guide on these projects.
- Usability Study of a Distance Continuing Education Website
- I thought this would be more helpful than it was. If we we starting from scratch it might be more helpful. The take away on this was the idea of having the participants rank usability in a Likert scale which can be averaged.
- A case study at UCLA
- This had some good points on directed questions and thinking aloud. I would also like to film our participants as they work through their directed exercises.
- Comparative usability evaluation
- This one was useful in keeping track of the scope of the evaluations. Different people find different things which reinforces my opinion that usability studies should be done often though it doesn't have to be on a large scale.
- Distance learning evaluation heuristic
- This one was sent to me by Kristy. Though it is hard to generalize the content to what we are doing, the questions asked were interesting. For example, we ought to have a written list of goals and objectives. It would be useful to weight these goals and objectives so we all are trying to move in the same direction.
| Attachment | Size |
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| Comparative usability evaluation.pdf | 2.5 MB |
| UCLA.pdf | 460.33 KB |
| Usability Study of a Distance Continuing Education Website.pdf | 772.68 KB |
| heureval.rtf | 41.88 KB |
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