Overview of content related to 'usability'
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Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects (such as a cookbook, a document or online help) and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer. Usability includes methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance. In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability studies the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site (web usability) is designed. Usability differs from user satisfaction insofar as the former also embraces usefulness. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Usability)
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 63: Consider the Users in the Field |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 63. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University |
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities |
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare |
Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Evidence, Value and Impact: The LIS Research Landscape in 2010 |
Stephanie Kenna reports on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition conference, held at the British Library on 28 June 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Evolution of Portable Electronic Books |
Ruth Wilson charts the development of portable electronic book hardware, from the first generation in 1980s to the range of handheld devices available today. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Experiences of Harvesting Web Resources in Engineering Using Automatic Classification |
Kjell Jansson, Jessica Lindholm and Tomas Schoenthal describe the work in setting up a Web index that uses automatic classification as a means for the selection of resources. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting |
Chris Awre reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
From the Trenches: HTML, Which Version? |
In From the Trenches, a regular column which delves into the more technical aspects of networking and the World Wide Web, Jon Knight, programmer and a member of the ROADS team, takes a look at the causes of good and bad HTML and explains what tags we should be marking up Web pages with. |
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Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers |
Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Googlepository and the University Library |
Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations? |
Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process |
Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process. |
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Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives |
Marieke Guy, Andy Powell and Michael Day address the argument that the quality of service to end-users is markedly influenced by the quality of metadata being produced and provide suggestions. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
Information Services: A Mission and a Vision |
Les Watson asks how we use technology in general as part of the learning process, in this extended version of the main article in the print version of Ariadne |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors |
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Institutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Project |
Andrew Gray discusses institutional repositories and the creative and applied arts specifically in relation to the JISC-funded Kultur Project. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate |
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 |
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World |
Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Internet Detective: BA Students Get on the Case |
Emma Worsfold and Debra Hiom introduce their "Internet Detective" online tutorial, and BA students from the final year Information Management BA at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, review the site. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Internet Librarian International 2009 |
Katherine Allen reports on Internet Librarian International 2009 which took place in London on 15 and 16 October 2009. |
October 2009, issue61, event report |
Intranet Management: Divine Comedy or Strategic Imperative? |
Martin White suggests that a failure to recognise the value of intranets is a symptom of a failure to recognise information as a strategic asset. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
IWMW 2005 |
Miles Banbery reports on the 9th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Manchester, UK, over 6-8 July 2005. |
July 2005, issue44, event report |
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community |
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
JASIG June 2007 Conference |
Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt report on the JASIG Conference, which took place in Denver, Colorado over 24-27 June 2007. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Just a Distraction?: External Content in Institutional Portals |
Ruth Martin and Liz Pearce reflect on stakeholders' views of external resources within institutional portals and highlight the findings of recent PORTAL Project research. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
KIM Project Conference: Knowledge and Information Management through Life |
Alex Ball provides an overview of the March 2007 KIM Project Conference. |
April 2007, issue51, event report |
Learning Objects and the Information Environment |
Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Learning to YODL: Building York's Digital Library |
Peri Stracchino and Yankui Feng describe a year's progress in building the digital library infrastructure outlined by Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord in their article last issue. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Metadata: Image Retrieval |
Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
