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Item Building Evalution Tools to Assess the Usability of Primary Care Clinics(2012-12-05) Hussain, Tahseen 1986-Primary care clinics play a vital role in the US healthcare system, providing preventative and cost-effective care. New trends in healthcare such as the development of the medical home model for care, the application of electronic medical records (EMRs), the effort to increase access to care, and the need to adhere to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will have direct impacts on the work flow and spatial delineation of primary care clinics. To ensure the success of primary care practices, the architectural design of primary care clinics needs to address these changes to satisfy both patients and staff, and to improve efficiency and outcomes of care. There is limited literature on the design usability (efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction) of primary care clinics. This study developed a set of building usability evaluation tools to collect, analyze and interpret the ?usability? of a primary care facility. The study used previous literature as well as a case study primary care clinic in Maryland as a basis to develop these tools. In the clinic, data were collected through an initial interview with the head nurse, a forty-hour behavioral observation, and a staff survey. A behavioral observation tool and a survey questionnaire were developed for the data collection. For data analysis, JMP Pro 9 software was used to analyze the data collected through behavioral observation and the staff survey. The literature review developed a ?Building Usability Framework? specifically for healthcare design. A data analysis tool, the ?Usability Matrix? was created to integrate and understand the analyzed data within the Building Usability Framework. Integrating the analyzed data from the case study within the Usability Matrix, a primary care clinic usability evaluation survey was developed at the end of the study. This survey along with the behavioral observation tool and design analysis tools were compiled together to produce the ?Building Usability Evaluation Tool-Kit for Primary Care Clinics.? This tool-kit can be used by architects and researchers interested in designing and analyzing ?usable? primary care clinics.Item Session 3E | What’s Next? UX for Discovery Systems Beyond the Initial Launch(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-25) Miles, ChassidyThe University of North Texas Libraries conducted user research for the redesign of the online catalog in 2020. Due to the significant changes we were able to make to the infrastructure and functionality of the interface before the initial release, we decided that regularly incorporating UX was critical for making user-centered improvements. This presentation will examine the challenges we experienced managing multiple UX projects with limited resources. I will detail the strategies we created to enhance the efficiency of our user studies and the improvements we have been able to make as a result. Finally, I will close by discussing possible next steps. This presentation is beneficial for those seeking to enhance usability and access for users of their discovery systems.Item Session 3K | What’s in a name: Usability of digital exhibits, collections, sites, and other ‘stuff’(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Harden, Melissa; Narlock, MikalaOur digital collections, exhibits, sites, and content have grown in an ad-hoc fashion, resulting in a proliferation of access systems without a unified strategy. As a result, library website users are presented with links with similar language: words like “exhibit” and “collections” appear in link labels without clear differentiation and cause confusion for both internal and external users. In this presentation, we will describe our process for testing different link language, creating a unified link language strategy for digital collections, and ensuring users can access our resources and internal colleagues can easily and quickly identify where they should store content.Item Student Searching with EBSCO Discovery: A Usability Study(Taylor & Francis (Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship), 2014) Cassidy, Erin Dorris; Jones, Glenda; McMain, Lynn; Shen, Lisa; Vieira, ScottThe researchers conducted task-based usability testing of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) with 20 students. While most participants felt positively about EDS, a few usability issues emerged. Confusion arose regarding source types and icons, facets/limiters, relevancy ranking, integrated search connectors and more. Students encountered difficulty with spelling corrections and a failure to understand terminology, and they demonstrated an unwillingness to view additional pages of search results. Findings indicate the need for changes to the local implementation of EDS as well as to features and structures under EBSCO’s control.Item Texas Archival Resources Online: A Community-Driven Redesign(2016-05-25) Bowman, Amy; Grinstead, Leigh; University of Texas at Austin; LYRASISMembers of the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) Steering Committee will report on the past year's work to plan significant improvements to Texas' one and only consortial website for archival finding aids, under the NEH 21st Century Collaborative Planning Grant. Topics will include governance and organizational home explorations, system platform research and testing, usability testing, education and outreach, standards, and more. The TARO website was created with grant funding more than 16 years ago with ongoing hosting and maintenance generously provided by UT Libraries. However, with close to 1 million visits per year, it is past time to reimage TARO - both in terms of 1) how users interact with collection data currently provided in EAD and 2) how TARO community members might design a system of continued support that will enable archivists, librarians, and museum curators to respond to changing user expectations, professional standards, and technologies. Join us for a quick moving session to learn more about TARO in the 21st Century.