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Improving the usability of novel Web software: An industrial case study of an institutional repository
D McKay, S Burriss
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics | SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN | Published : 2008
Abstract
In this paper we discuss usability improvements made to institutional repository software in an industrial setting. The novelty of institutional repository software as a class and the industrial setting present special challenges to traditional usability evaluation; here examine these problems and present a case study which demonstrates a combination of heuristic analysis, empirical methods, background research and interface best practice to make significant usability improvements to an institutional repository. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.