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WISE 2008: Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops pp 102–111Cite as

Improving the Usability of Novel Web Software: An Industrial Case Study of an Institutional Repository

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In this paper we discuss usability improvements made to institutional repository software in an industrial setting. The novelty of institutional repository software as a class and the industrial setting present special challenges to traditional usability evaluation; here examine these problems and present a case study which demonstrates a combination of heuristic analysis, empirical methods, background research and interface best practice to make significant usability improvements to an institutional repository.

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  1. Information Resources, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, Hawthorn, Vic 3123, Australia

    Dana McKay & Shaun Burriss

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McKay, D., Burriss, S. (2008). Improving the Usability of Novel Web Software: An Industrial Case Study of an Institutional Repository. In: Hartmann, S., Zhou, X., Kirchberg, M. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops. WISE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85200-1_12

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