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Enhanced Publications. An enhanced experience?. Overview. Problem Current state of research Hypothesis Research method Planning. Problem. A lot of extra data Useful for researchers Overwhelming for laymen? How can we avoid this? Do conventional standards apply?
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Enhanced Publications An enhanced experience?
Overview • Problem • Current state of research • Hypothesis • Research method • Planning
Problem • A lot of extra data • Useful for researchers • Overwhelming for laymen? • How can we avoid this? • Do conventional standards apply? • Can we find issues regarding the general usability of EP’s?
Problem • “Does the addition of extra information in the form of for example images and interactive applications increase the feeling of comprehension?”
Current state of research • Loads of research on usability in general. (Nielsen 1994; 1992) • Little to no research on the usability of Enhanced Publications • It is named as a reason to provide as much data and their relations as possible (Hoogerwerf, 2009) • Lots to be done
Hypothesis • Adding images, videos, applications and such without taking steps to improve the usability will overwhelm the user, especially when they are not an expert on the topic of the paper. • The usability guidelines that apply to websites and web applications also apply to enhanced publications.
Research method • Heuristic evaluation (Nielsen & Molich, 1990; Nielsen ). • Performed by 2 persons with reasonable expertise regarding usability • User testing • Questions about the publication • Problems found by the heuristic evaluation • Think-aloud • Post test questionnaire • Measure opinion • Will use the “The Niersen Beaker burial: A renewed study of a century-old excavation” publication(Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries)
References • Hoogerwerf, M. (2009). Durable Enhanced Publications. Proceedings of African Digital Scholarship & Curation. • Nielsen, J. (1992). Finding Usability problems Through Heuristic Evaluation. CHI '92 (pp. 373-380). ACM. • Nielsen, J. (1994). Enhancing the Explanatory Power of Usability Heuristics. Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 152-158). Boston: ACM. • Nielsen, J., & Molich, R. (1990). Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces. CHI '90 Proceedings, (pp. 249-256). • Bourgeois, Q., Amkreutz, L., & Panhuysen, R. (2009). The Niersen Beaker burial: A renewed study of a century-old excavation. Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries .