چکیده:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the web pages of Islamic World Science
Citation Center (ISC), the Islamic Countries SCI using Nielsen`s Heuristic
Principles and was performed during September 2012. Among Nielsen`s 10
usability heuristic principles, five were covered. Five professional evaluators were
asked to evaluate the database using Nielsen`s five criteria. The total average of
severity rating of database problem was calculated 1.008 which stated minor
problems in overall look of the database. According to this study, strengths and
weaknesses of the WebPages of Islamic Countries SCI of ISC database were
discovered which might be used by beneficiary groups like database designers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Usability Evaluation of the Web Pages of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Islamic Countries SCI database Tannaz Azadi Rogfteyeft Eskrootchi Medical library and Information Sciences School of Health Management and Information Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Tehran, Iran azadi.
Keywords: usability, heuristic evaluation, user interface, web pages, Islamic World Science Citation Center, Islamic Countries SCI Introduction Today most universities have provided a wide access to databases to enable students and faculties meet their information needs.
Research Background Fattahi and Entezarian (2009) studied the fundamental problems of the user interface of Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST) and kanian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (kanDoc) as well as the differences between the rate of expert and novice users' understanding, using the heuristic evaluation method and Nielsen's ten components.
Abbaspour (2006) in his thesis evaluated the user interface of the databases of dissertations' abstract of IranDoc. In his study, five library and information professionals determined the fulfillment or not fulfillment of criteria and the severity rating of the found problems, based on Cherry, Williamson, Jones-Simmons, and Gu(1994) checklist.
Yushiana and Widyawati (2007) in their heuristic evaluation of the usability of user interface of the OPAC of the Malaysialnternational University Library, focused only on three factors including "system visibility", "match between system and the real world" and "Aesthetic and minimalist design".
User-centered design of a website for library and information science students: Heuristic evaluation and usability testing.