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Methodological framework of user experience measurement in digital libraries

Research activity

Code Science Field Subfield
5.13.00  Social sciences  Information science and librarianship   

Code Science Field
H100  Humanities  Documentation, information, library science, archivistics 

Code Science Field
5.08  Social Sciences  Media and communications 
Keywords
digital libraries, evaluation methods, user experience, UX
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (18)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  07152  PhD Melita Ambrožič  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2018  219 
2.  08784  PhD Tomaž Bartol  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2018  279 
3.  32844  PhD Andrej Blatnik  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2019 - 2020  578 
4.  18488  PhD Ema Dornik  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  174 
5.  30252  PhD Irena Eiselt  Art history  Researcher  2018  30 
6.  37431  PhD Tjaša Jug  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  25 
7.  21645  PhD Mihael Kovač  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  406 
8.  29353  PhD Tanja Merčun Kariž  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  96 
9.  35348  Manca Noč Oletič  Information science and librarianship  Junior researcher  2017 - 2019  11 
10.  36381  PhD Mihela Pauman Budanović  Information science and librarianship  Junior researcher  2017 - 2020  18 
11.  24611  PhD Marija Petek  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2019 - 2020  139 
12.  28237  PhD Jan Pisanski  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  94 
13.  15444  PhD Alenka Šauperl  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  322 
14.  20867  PhD Renata Šolar  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2018  59 
15.  05203  Davor Šoštarič  Computer science and informatics  Researcher  2017 - 2020  55 
16.  31847  PhD Katarina Švab  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  74 
17.  19614  PhD Polona Vilar  Information science and librarianship  Researcher  2017 - 2020  288 
18.  08983  PhD Maja Žumer  Information science and librarianship  Head  2017 - 2020  441 
Organisations (2)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0500  Institute of Information Science  Maribor  5258880000  1,176 
2.  0581  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts  Ljubljana  1627058  97,992 
Abstract
Based on the existing, and developing new methods of studying user experience, we will prepare a methodological framework, appropriate for evaluation of digital libraries, as well as other types of bibliographic information systems. We plan to prepare a systematic iterative procedure consisting of theoretical and practical evaluation aspects. Our draft framework, based on theoretical and practical analysis of existing evaluation approaches, will identify various aspects of evaluation and will contain a set of methods (existing ones and those developed within the project), appropriate for evaluation of as wide spectrum as possible of various scenarios in connection with user experience in bibliographic information systems. This framework will be tested in a series of steps in the process of evaluating the existing Slovenian (COBISS, dLib) and foreign bibliographic information systems. During this process the framework will be adapted and refined based on the results of this analysis. The framework for the evaluation of user experience in digital libraries or bibliographic information systems in general is largely a worldwide novelty, since so far the focus has been on efficiency and success. It will also require the development of original or innovatively refined existing evaluation methods for investigating user experience. As such, the evaluation framework will be potentially useful in all situations where the goal is to evaluate a bibliographic information system. On the other hand evaluation of existing examples of bibliographic inforrmation systems enables their improvement, including the system COBISS which is maintained by our project partner IZUM.
Significance for science
The methodological framework, as the project result, is not bound to a particular cultural space, and is as such potentially useful anywhere in the world where the goal would be to evaluate a digital library or any other bibliohraphic information system from the view of user experience. The overview of relevant methodological approaches and their link to individual dimensions of user experience can contribute to a faster development of user-friendlier bibliographic information systems. Due to a currently large set of possible methods and a relatively non-systematic use within the user experience such framework would serve as a useful tool also to practitioners (developers of digital libraries and other bibliographic information systems), researchers, and students.
Significance for the country
The results of evaluation of Slovenian bibliographic systems, particularly system COBISS, developed by our project partner IZUM, can be directly used in further development of these systems. The project woudl also set up the long needed research co-operation between the Department of Librarianship, Information Science and Book Studies, as the centre of basich research, and IZUM as the central developer of the bibliographic information system.
Most important scientific results Final report
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results Interim report, final report
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