Project 6: Undergraduate Activity Related to the UCI Libraries

1. Project 6: Undergraduate Activity Related to the UCI Libraries Azia Foster . Andrew Zaldivar . Scott Roeder

2. Project Overview • Interested in exploring the activity that undergraduates undergo when using the UCI Libraries system (and lack thereof) • What We’ve Done So Far: • Initial Survey • Initial Interview • Secondary Survey • Secondary Interview (Revised) • Analyzing of Results • - Flowcharts

3. Methodology • Initial Task Analysis: • Consist of finding articles/references. • One task unrelated to subject’s major • One task related to subject’s major • Problem: • Lack consistency • Variance in task • Difficult to measure results • Challenging designing tasks for different majors outside of ICS (and Social Sciences) • Revised Task Analysis: • Both tasks related to ICS, but performed by non-ICS students • Allows for consistency • Results are now comparable • Easier to design tasks • “Inexperienced” in ICS topics

4. Analyzing Results • Each member in charge of participant information they collected • Andrew – 3 participants • Azia – 4 participants • Scott – 3 participants • For Each Participant: • - A word document combining both Survey and Task Analysis Results • - Each have a flowchart completed that records the completion of their task, step by step • Analysis involved: • comparing Task 1 and Task 2 flowcharts • comparing flowcharts between participants • comparing Interview answers • comparing Survey results

5. Frequency of Database & Resources

6. GPA Distribution Across Subjects *Average GPA: 3.0

7. List of School

8. Frequency of Academic Level *Class of 2008

9. UCI Libraries User Start UCI Libraries Results Online Resources Article Found? Displayed in Tabbed Window End SAGE Search Term Subject #8, Task 1 & 2

10. Google / Wikipedia User Start Google Google Scholar Wikipedia Search “Ubiquitious Computing” Search “Ubiquitious Computing” Search “Ubiquitious Computing” Results Results Results No Article Found? Obtain Definition Obtain Definition Yes Displayed in Tabbed Window End Subject #5, Task 2

11. Multi-Tabbed Browsing User Start Google Scholar UCI Online Resources JSTOR Search Term Search Term No Results Results Article Found? Yes Displayed in Tabbed Window End Subject #10, Task 1 & 2

12. Built-in Google Search User Start Results Google Built-in Search Article Found? No Search Term Yes Displayed in Tabbed Window End Subject #9, Task 1 & 2

13. Discussion • Semi-Structured Interview Questions: • - What are the top three reasons they would visit the Libraries web site? • What are the reasons they don’t? • What would change their mind? • Suggestions for UCI Libraries: • Search Keywords & Return List of Databases • Already implemented (Online Resources) • Hard to Distinguish Search Results • Improve UI; Better Labeling • Lack of Summaries; Abstracts Hard to Comprehend • Display Wikipedia or Dictionary.com Defintion • Reduce Number of Steps to Search • UCI Libraries Built-in Search Extension

14. Schedule • What’s Left? • Our report! • Hopefully will be completed by Tuesday • Looked over and reviewed on Wednesday • Then turned in on Thursday • Planning on splitting up parts of our report: • Introduction to our project • Initial Surveys and Interview • Participant break down of Task Analysis • Conclusions and suggestions drawn from results