Experiences with Developing a User-Centered Digital Library

  • Authors:
  • Elahe Kani-Zabihi;Gheorghita Ghinea;Sherry Y. Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Brunel University, UK;Brunel University, UK;Brunel University, UK

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Digital Library Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether users should be involved in the design stage of a Digital Library DL. Hence an experiment has been undertaken to find out the level of user satisfaction with a user-centred DL UDL compared to a non-user-centred DL NDL. In this experiment, the UDL prototype has been compared with the NDL prototype. The two prototypes were then evaluated by separate users with various Information Technology IT backgrounds. Results show that users' task performance was better in the UDL version of the prototype.