Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System

Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System

The interest in using the Website in the classroom as part of the learning environment increase dramatically. Website provides an efficient and fast access for users to get information and senrice. Digital library is a website that serving worldwide users and become widely accepted. Although the dig...

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Main Author: Asna Khairun, Abdul Rahman
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Language:eng
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Published: 2012
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Z665 Library Science
Information Science
T58.5-58.64 Information technology
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Asna Khairun, Abdul Rahman
Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
description The interest in using the Website in the classroom as part of the learning environment increase dramatically. Website provides an efficient and fast access for users to get information and senrice. Digital library is a website that serving worldwide users and become widely accepted. Although the digital library system increasingly used, there are a number of users complaining about usability of digital library. The usability test of digital library system is one of the key features for its success. This project focuses to look into usability of digital library system in University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Learnability and efficiency are usability attributes that has been chosen for this project. Usability testing on qualitative and quantitative data collection had been applied for this project. Tasks on performance measure and questionnaires had been distributed to respondents for quantitative and qualitative data collection. The results from quantitative and qualitative data collection showed that the system is easy to use and to learn.
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author_facet Asna Khairun, Abdul Rahman
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title Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
title_short Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
title_full Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
title_fullStr Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
title_full_unstemmed Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System
title_sort usability testing for learnability and efficiency on uum digital library system
granting_institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
publishDate 2012
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spelling my-uum-etd.29322022-04-10T06:31:10Z Usability Testing for Learnability and Efficiency on UUM Digital Library System 2012-01 Asna Khairun, Abdul Rahman Abdullah, Mohd Syazwan Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Awang Had Salleh Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Z665 Library Science. Information Science T58.5-58.64 Information technology The interest in using the Website in the classroom as part of the learning environment increase dramatically. Website provides an efficient and fast access for users to get information and senrice. Digital library is a website that serving worldwide users and become widely accepted. Although the digital library system increasingly used, there are a number of users complaining about usability of digital library. The usability test of digital library system is one of the key features for its success. This project focuses to look into usability of digital library system in University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Learnability and efficiency are usability attributes that has been chosen for this project. Usability testing on qualitative and quantitative data collection had been applied for this project. Tasks on performance measure and questionnaires had been distributed to respondents for quantitative and qualitative data collection. The results from quantitative and qualitative data collection showed that the system is easy to use and to learn. 2012-01 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2932/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2932/1/Asna_Khairun_Abdul_Rahman.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/2932/2/Asna_Khairun_Abdul_Rahman.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Arms & William Y. (2000). Digital Libraries. United States: The MIT Press. Barnum, C. (2002). Usability Testing and Research. New York: Longman. Bartek, V. & Cheatham, D (2003). ''Experience Remote Usability Testing, Part 2: Examine the Benejits and downside of Remote Usability Testing". 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