improving the user experience : an interface for all janet broome february 2009
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Improving the User Experience : An Interface for all Janet Broome
February 2009
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Improving the User Experience : An Interface for all
Introduction The challenges of designing a user interface for
all Persona of an Advanced User Persona of a “Novice” User OvidSP User Interface Features of the Interface Getting the most out of searching
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Challenges
Users have different expectations from searching Detailed information Brief information “quick and dirty” searching Common goal of reliable, accurate, relevant and
evidence based results
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Prospecting is not what it used to be !
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Persona
Microsoft and other software houses have developed techniques where they identify the persona of a user
This is done through a process called “conceptual” enquiry where different types of users are interviewed regarding their search and information needs
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The Advanced User
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Characteristics and Requirements of an Advanced User
Researcher Detailed Information Has advanced information literacy skills Understands “boolean logic” and bibliographic
terminology Structured Queries Save and Manipulate Search Results Share Results with others
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Requirements of an Advanced User
Requirement to be constantly kept informed in developments within their subject area
– RSS Feeds– Auto Alerts– E-mail Alerts
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Advanced Users – Time Constraints Different
An Advanced User has time to formulate search enquiries and manipulate them
Systematic Reviews – often 300
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Novice User
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Characteristics of a “Novice” User
Does not have information literacy skills
Has a busy lifestyle – balancing work/study and life balance
Has information needs
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Requirements of a Novice User
Requires a simple interface “google” like but with reliable search results Precision results with minimum effort Relevant Search Results – does not require
everything published but what is relevant Questions – rather than boolean Search for everything in one place
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OvidSP a User Interface that does not discriminate
OvidSP is designed to meet the requirements of the “advanced” and “novice” user
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OvidSP a User Interface that does not discriminate
OvidSP is designed to meet the requirements of the “advanced” and “novice” user
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Features of OvidSP for the Advanced User
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Advanced User Features – Multi-Field Search
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Advance User Features – Results Manager
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Features of OvidSP for the Advanced User
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Advanced User Features of Journals
Publish ahead of print RSS Feeds for Electronic Tables of Content
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RSS Features within Journals
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Novice User Features – Support of NLP
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Clustered Search Results – Faceted Searching
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OvidSP
We believe we have developed an interface for all that does not discriminate between level of user
Let us take a closer look
Practical demonstration