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Usability Testing
The Web Advisory Group coordinates usability testing for web interfaces in the MIT Libraries.
New home page [paper prototype]
New home page - usability test results : April 2004Digital Library of MIT Theses
Digital Library of MIT Theses usability test results: June 2003
MIT Institute Archives web site
Archives web site usability test results: May 2003
The "Big Test" results: November 2002
The aim of this test was to learn how our students use our many web-based tools and interfaces together. Included in the test were:
- web site: http://libraries.mit.edu/
- listings of databases + e-journals:http://libraries.mit.edu/vera
- web OPAC: http://libraries.mit.edu/barton
- individual databases listed in Vera
- test version of SFX menu screens in Alternative Press Index/Firstsearch test account
- "Ask Us - Live" (live chat reference service, no longer live at MIT)
- subject pages: http://libraries.mit.edu/subjects/
- The Information Navigator: http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/general/
MIT Libraries' GIS web site
GIS web site usability test results: September 2002
MIT Libraries' DSpace web site
DSpace web site usability results: August/September 2002
Margret Branschofsky coordinated this test.
Barton catalog: MIT Libraries
- Barton catalog usability test results: February 2001
- Draft web Barton screens: usability test results: June 2001
- A third test was conducted of the Barton catalog for users with disabilities. (Results were not formally documented. We are waiting for further tests to be conducted with "no-frames" version of Barton in 2003).
MIT Libraries' web site
