Designing effective tasks for digital library user tests: Lessons learned

OCLC Systems and Services

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 300-310

  Notess, Mark ^a   Kouper, Inna ^b   Swan, Maggie B ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Option Six Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Music; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IDEAS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARIES; INDIANA UNIVERSITY; LIBRARY USERS; MUSIC; TASK DESIGN; TESTING CONDITIONS;

DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 31044454937     PISSN: 1065075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650750510629634     Document Type: Article

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