Evaluation Study … part 1

Over the last few days I have been testing the metadata generator with some willing participants (3 in total). There were four parts to this study. The first task set comprised of a series of find and complete tasks aimed at testing the intuitiveness of the interface and terminology. Participants at this stage weren’t privy to help files or detailed information about the applications processes. The following report presents the finding of this part of the study and makes recommendations regarding the interface and terminology used only. The next three parts, auto generation process, uploading to intraLibrary and the questionnaire result, will be forth coming over the next few days. In view of this study I have revisited some of the questionnaires we undertook early on, based on the paper prototyping. We had very few respondents, so statistical analysis was not warranted, however some of the comments made were taken on board at the time. I will be including a brief discussion of these and the relevant aspects and compare, if possible, to the more recent questionnaire results.