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Academic Mobile Library Services
In order to get a picture of the mobile library landscape, the mobile offering from a variety of academic institutions has been investigated. The aim of this is to understand what institutional...
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Mobile library survey report
In November we ran a survey to all students at the university to investigate mobile demographics among students, Internet habits and attitudes towards mobile library services. The survey ran for two...
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Designing for Mobile Devices in Higher Education Research
While researching mobile library services, I’ve read a few research papers produced by other projects recently. Doing so has provided some guidance on our own research techniques and allow me to make...
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy...
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Mobile user research methods
As the project embarks on usability testing using mobile devices, it was important to evaluate mobile specific research methods and understand the important differences between desktop usability...
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UX2 Presentation at Scottish UPA, 15th March
Last week UX2 were fortunate to be invited back to present at the Scottish UPA’s regular meeting. Having introduced our project and the work we were doing at an event last year, this was a great...
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UX2 Mobile Usability Testing
Introduction Following on from the usability testing of the desktop prototype digital library, we conducted more user research on the mobile prototype. The prototype is similar to the full version but...
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Event: User Centred Design Day with Balsamiq Prototyping for Beginners
As the UX2 project wraps up this month, we have planned an event which we hope will introduce user-centred design and usability in digital libraries to others through our case studies. The event is...
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Slides: User Centred Design Day, 17th May
Many thanks to everyone who made it along to our event yesterday. I hope that it was informative and provided some guidance on planning your own user research. I’ve uploaded my slides from the morning...
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Library Hi Tech article: Student attitudes towards mobile library services...
I’m very pleased to announce that the article written for Library Hi Tech based on research conducted earlier this year is now available. For more information and to read the article in full follow the...
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