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Usability study of a mobile website: the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, experience

Usability study of a mobile website: the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz... Brief communications: Yeh and Fontenelle calendar, along with information about the library’s Usability study of a mobile website: the Health hours and direction. All content was transformed to fit Sciences Library, University of Colorado the screen space of a smart phone, so zooming is no Anschutz Medical Campus, experience longer required. The HSL conducted a usability study comparing Shea-Tinn Yeh, MLS, MSE; Cathalina Fontenelle, the optimized and the HTML-based, non-optimized MPhil, MSc mobile websites to evaluate the usefulness of the optimized site. Usability studies have been recog- See end of article for authors’ affiliations. nized as a fundamental method to evaluate products DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.012 and systems. Even though usability studies may not be the most efficient technique for site evaluation, they provide a reliable quantitative estimate of users’ performance as well as a measure of subjective The age of mobile technologies is here. According to satisfaction [6]. the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, in the year 2010, METHODOLOGY vendors shipped a total of 302.6 million smart phones worldwide, up 74.4% from the year before [1]. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Pew Research Center expects the number of mobile standard ISO 9241-11 (1998) defines usability http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA Unpaywall

Usability study of a mobile website: the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, experience

Yeh, Shea-Tinn; Fontenelle, Cathalina
Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA – Jan 1, 2012
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Brief communications: Yeh and Fontenelle calendar, along with information about the library’s Usability study of a mobile website: the Health hours and direction. All content was transformed to fit Sciences Library, University of Colorado the screen space of a smart phone, so zooming is no Anschutz Medical Campus, experience longer required. The HSL conducted a usability study comparing Shea-Tinn Yeh, MLS, MSE; Cathalina Fontenelle, the optimized and the HTML-based, non-optimized MPhil, MSc mobile websites to evaluate the usefulness of the optimized site. Usability studies have been recog- See end of article for authors’ affiliations. nized as a fundamental method to evaluate products DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.012 and systems. Even though usability studies may not be the most efficient technique for site evaluation, they provide a reliable quantitative estimate of users’ performance as well as a measure of subjective The age of mobile technologies is here. According to satisfaction [6]. the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, in the year 2010, METHODOLOGY vendors shipped a total of 302.6 million smart phones worldwide, up 74.4% from the year before [1]. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Pew Research Center expects the number of mobile standard ISO 9241-11 (1998) defines usability

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