Many thanks to the Cornell Usability Working Group for carrying out the usability tests and recording the results. Special thanks to Wendy Kozlowski and Kevin Kidwell who facilitated the tests and took notes. After providing some context around the tests and high level outcomes, we are including the text of the Usability Working Group's final report below. The report is also available here (TO DO: Link).
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Huda discussed the goal for this study as well as potential tasks with the Usability Working Group. The group discussed the format and helped refined the tasks for the study. Kevin Kidwell and Wendy Kozlowski took notes and facilitated the sessions and the Usability Working Group formulated the final report included below. The tasks used in the study with accompanying screenshots showing possible interactions in the interface are available here. Given the current situation with the pandemic, and an already over-taxed faculty and student population, we decided to recruit participants from user representatives who work with the Cornell Blacklight discovery team. The usability tests were conducted by providing a URL to the participants where they could We used Zoom to enable participants to share their screens and provided them a URL they could use to access the website , and Zoom was used to interact with and capture their screensand attempt the tasks. Their interactions with the screen were recorded while not recording their faces. The recordings are linked below (TO DO: provide a link).
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