TIGER: Website Usability Project

 

Status: complete

Funding Initiative: DeL 1

 

Description

This project compared 3 different online teaching and learning resource facilities

• TRIBE (http://www.business,heacademy.ac.uk/resources.tribe)*
• Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk)
• Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)

through a series of website usability research sessions.

* (TRIBE is no longer available)

A total of 29 tests were run in 5 different Academy associated universities throughout the UK - in Bristol, Bangor, Newcastle, Salford and Inverness.

The study aimed to understand what potential users thought about the three different academic resource facilities.

Users were observed completing a series of searches on each of the websites on topics relating to their own area of work. They were then asked to provide feedback on the search functionality, quantity of results, type of resources available, and usefulness of the resources provided by each website.

The primary focus of the testing was on the users’ ability to find resources of value to them. 

 

Related documents/URLs

TIGER Overview report

TIGER Full Report

 

Start date

2007-05-01

End date

2007-10-31