Dear All,
I am happy to report that we do indeed have survey results and, if I
recall, I had promised to share these on the listserv upon the
completion of the 'How do you use Ovid' survey.
(note: I didn't put 'Ovid' in the subject line of this email as that
tends to upset the listserv daemon and various other demons...)
This link gives a blog entry about the poster and the latest Ovid SP
redesign, which in turn links to a PDF of the poster itself:
http://healthinformaticist.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/hlg-poster-on-ovid-s
p-redesign-and-how-we-adapted/
Some quick information below:
Themes
Time-consuming: the process of relearning where to find things and how
to use new features takes some time
Irritating: some respondents found it frustrating adapting to a new
interface
Screen 'real estate': many respondents were concerned about the usage of
screen space by the new design and features-such as the Tips on the
right hand side, and the new placement of Results Manager
It's Fine: many respondents thought the new design was fine, or it had
not had an impact on their searching-this group is different from the
conflicted no-impacters (see poster for a brief discussion)
Heterogeneity of responses: what was "annoying" to one person was "fine"
to another!
I had asked questions about whether the change of placement or
appearance of the following features had had any impact on the user's
searching, and the following results were the most common:
Search Box
40% said SB position had no impact
13% had to scroll more or constantly
Edit Current Search
53% said the appearance had no impact
14% did not use it or did not know it existed
Search History
44% said the appearance had no impact
10% found using it cumbersome or irritating
Results Manager
42% said the change in configuration had no impact
20% found the configuration poor and it was awkward to use
13% found it time-consuming to use
Text Size and Font
60% said the size or font had no impact
15% found that readability was poor and the text was too small
In terms of usability, 63% of users did not use Search Aid, which
suggests they did not find it helped usability, or they did not think it
looked useful. 83% of respondents found that the Remove Selected
function (found at the bottom of the search history) was useful.
The poorest function, for conducting an accurate search, was the Basic
Search function. The best function for accuracy was the set of Boolean
buttons at the bottom of the search history.
If users could change one thing about Ovid SP, the most common things to
be changed are: 1.Ovid Tips- get rid of this, or hide it (17%) 2.
Results Manager - move this, many said back to the bottom (12%) 3.
Search box - move back under the search history (9%) (the percentages
are low because there was a lot of heterogeneity in the responses--also
many people answered 'no' or 'n/a')
I'd like to look at more aspects of the results, such as how many folks
responded from each country, but had a limited time for interpreting the
results.
If you've attended the HLG Conference in Cardiff then all of this will
be old hat to you, so please ignore my repetition of information. If
not, enjoy!
Have a nice weekend and apologies for cross-posting,
Danielle
Danielle Worster
Information Scientist
National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health
(NCC-WCH)
Fourth Floor, Kings Court, 2-16 Goodge Street, London W1T 2QA
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