Usabilidade no contexto de gestores, desenvolvedores e usuários do website da Biblioteca Central da Universidade de Brasília

AUTOR(ES)

José Antonio Machado do Nascimento

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Usability makes possible to the academic libraries integrate requirements as interactivity and multimedia to create dynamic pages in terms of linearity and navigability. With the intention to verify usability in the context of managers, web developers and users, the BCE website was chosen for the case study of this research. After referencial theoretician who defined and contextualized the scenario and trends of academic libraries websites, the concepts and history of Usability and Egonomics, the evolution of graphical interfaces and webdesign, the human computer interaction, its panorama in Brazil and its relations with Cognitive Psychology, the methods and techniques of usability evaluation and the evaluations of usability in academic libraries, had been carried analysis of the use context of BCE website with its managers and web developers, by documentary analysis, interview with stimulated verbalization and website observation; ergonomic evaluation of its interfaces with check-list, guide of recommendations and heuristical evaluation; users mental model identification relative to BCE website semantic trees, over interaction essay with card sorting technique and identification of the errors committed by users in the BCE website use, through interaction essay with task analysis. It was concluded that managers and web developers disrespect the user participation, whom had to the unfamiliarity of the benefits that the usability can bring, as well as managemental and technological difficulties that face. It was also verified that the current website structure does not propitiate the users to carry through tasks in skillful time, presents excess and duplicity of links, absence of relation between the virtual library and website and mistake of some search mechanisms. Therefore, the redesign must privilege the creation of fluid lay-out and hypertexts, that will make possible constant modifications, without necessarily modifying the linearity of the navigation.

ASSUNTO(S)

interação humano computador webdesign. human computer interaction academic libraries ciencia da informacao bibliotecas universitárias usability evaluation webdesign. avaliações de usabilidade

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