Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12, 2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce catalog search solution
Usability Testing Trends I
n10 undergraduate students
–5 with Endeca catalog
–5 with old Web2 OPAC
nEndeca performed as well as OPAC for known-item searching
–89% Endeca tasks completed ‘easily’ (8/9)
–71% OPAC tasks completed ‘easily’ (15/21)
nEndeca performs better than OPAC for topical searching
–61% Endeca tasks completed ‘easily’ (19/31)
–3% Endeca tasks completed as ‘hard’ (1/31)
–33% OPAC tasks completed ‘easily’ (13/39)
–26% OPAC tasks completed as ‘hard’ (10/39)
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