[Air-l] Attribute based web scales

[Paul DiPerna]

Brian, 

In terms of usability, Jakob Nielsen and his group's useit.com site
might give you ideas for evaluation parameters.  http://www.useit.com/

You may also want to check the papers written for Community Lab.  Here
is the URL for their index:

http://www.communitylab.org/?q=bibliography/project_cites

I should give a caveat..  I'm not a web developer or HCI researcher. 
These days I research ICT-minded organizations and individuals for
interviewing purposes.  I apologize in advance if these links are not
helpful.


 Good luck,

 Paul




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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Air-l] Attribute based web scales
> From: "Cugelman, Brian" <B.Cugelman at wlv.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, March 19, 2007 2:48 pm
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm investigating how website attributes impact users' behaviour in the context of social campaign. A pilot study I conducted found a number of results: that usability, design, credibility and the quality of interactive applications were associated with more active users. Moving to the next stage, I wanted to develop attribute based evaluation scales I could use to assess website's credibility, usability, degree of interactivity and content quality. Ideally, I'd like to avoid systems that require human judgement and develop scales that ask: does it have X, does it have Y, is it missing Z. And from these come to a basic ranking of sites' usability, credibility, etc...
> 
> I'm now pooling sources and was wondering if anyone knows about any 'tried and tested' scales which measure the above web attributes and have proven successful in the past; have suggestions on good frameworks from which to base such scales; or general thoughts on using attribute based scales to evaluate websites?
> 
> Any advice is appreciated,
> 
> Brian
> 
> --------------------
> Brian Cugelman
> Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group
> University of Wolverhampton
> b.cugelman at wlv.ac.uk
> http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk <http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/> 
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