LIS 488 INFORMATION SYSTEMS WEBLIOGRAPHY: Usability Testing
by
Rong Tang

 

|Concept | Methods | Models |

 

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• Usability Testing Concepts
  • Cognitive Walkthrough
    by Simmons College
    The Website contains the information about cognitive walkthrough. However, it is very sketchy and does not provide concrete examples.
  • User Studies
    by American Society for Information Science and Technology
    The Website includes multiple examples of user studies of retrieval systems. It is strong in terms of providing comprehensive cases but no theoretical principles were mentioned

   

• Usability Testing Methodologies
  • Interview
    by GSLIS TechLab
    The Website contains the information about conducting usability testing via focus group interviews. The weaknesses of the site include no actual student input.
  • Observation
    by JASIST
    The Website includes research articles on usability testing using participant observation method. Very good!!!

   

• Usability Testing Models
  • Data Modeling
    by American Psychological Association
    The Website contains the information about data modeling. APA conducted many usability testing studies for their PsycInfo interface.
  • ER
    by google
    The Website includes information about generating entity relationship models.

 

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Created by Rong Tang March 2006
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