User Testing with Microinteractions

Abstract

Enabling and supporting discoverability of research outputs and datasets are key functions of university and academic health center institutional repositories. Yet adoption rates among potential repository users are hampered by a number of factors, prominent among which are difficulties with basic usability. In their efforts to implement a local instance of InvenioRDM, a turnkey next generation repository, team members at Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center supplemented agile development principles and methods and a user experience design-centered approach with observations of users’ microinteractions (interactions with each part of the software’s interface that requires human intervention). Microinteractions were observed through user testing sessions conducted in Fall 2019. The result has been a more user-informed development effort incorporating the experiences and viewpoints of a multidisciplinary team of researchers spanning multiple departments of a highly ranked research university.

Bridging the gap: A library‐based collaboration to enhance data skills for clinical researchers

“…To enhance reusability of NMEDW research reports, we are creating workflows and corresponding training for preservation and discoverability in our institutional repository, a next‐generation research data management system developed through an international collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and other partners, called InvenioRDM. 6 , 7 InvenioRDM enables organizations to securely house research products and make them discoverable, shareable, reusable, and citable. It simplifies the process of collecting, preserving, and disseminating a wide range of research products that enhance individual and institutional visibility, promotes people and their expertise, enables discovery and accessibility by the international scientific community, and fosters open and FAIR science.…”

“…To enhance reusability of NMEDW research reports, we are creating workflows and corresponding training for preservation and discoverability in our institutional repository, a next‐generation research data management system developed through an international collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and other partners, called InvenioRDM 6,7 . InvenioRDM enables organizations to securely house research products and make them discoverable, shareable, reusable, and citable.…”

SIGraDi 2022. Critical Appropriations

“…Outro grupamento possível de ser feito são trabalhos que investigam sistemas de biblioteca e repositórios institucionais, 2 dos 14 trabalhos utilizam como objeto microinterações presentes em interfaces de biblioteca. "User testing with microinteractions" (Gonzales et al, 2021) destaca a qualidade das microinterações a partir da perspectiva da usabilidade. Motivado pela dificuldade na utilização dos repositórios institucionais, a partir da percepção de carga cognitiva e trabalho extra na limpeza, inserção e catalogação dos títulos.…”

“…O panorama dos trabalhos demonstra congruência em pontuar que microinterações, quando desenvolvidas de forma adequada e alinhadas às funcionalidades de um sistema ou interface agregam valor tanto na sua usabilidade quanto na sua experiência de uso. O impacto das microinterações, mesmo que breve, é percebido (Reyneke, 2019) e contribui com a percepção geral do artefato (Betz;Hall, 2015;Gonzales et al, 2021). O cuidado com a utilização de microinterações deve, principalmente, ser sua relação direta com uma funcionalidade do sistema.…”

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“…He is also a director of KU research and an advocate of open research practice who has worked in research and support areas, including chemistry, advocacy, policy, technology, publishing, political economy, and cultural studies. He was a contributor to the Panton Overall, the sample shows one paper with eleven authors [15], one with ten authors [16], three with nine authors [17][18][19], two with eight authors [8,20], one with seven authors [21], one with six authors [3], seven with four authors [7,9,[22][23][24][25][26], two with three authors [4,27], seven with two authors [10,[28][29][30][31][32][33], and seven with one author (referring to the following authors: Cameron Neylon [1]; Bohyun Kim [34]; William H Walters [35]; Matthew I. Bellgard [36]; Kai Nishikawa [37]; Ayla Stein Kenfield [38]; and David Wilcox [39]).…”