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Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries

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Elaine G. Toms,

Christine Dufour,

Susan HesemeierAuthors Info & Claims

JCDL '04: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Pages 51 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996364

Published: 07 June 2004 Publication History

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In this paper, we propose a method for assessing user experience. Normally evaluation is based on usability or on the efficiency of or effectiveness of focused information search tasks. Yet all experiences with libraries (whether physical or virtual) need not be for the explicit purpose of finding, acquiring and using information. The experience and its playfulness and pleasure have equal value. To assess this experience, we modified a experiential value scale developed for online shopping and have tested it in the context of culture and heritage websites.

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Measuring the user's experience with digital libraries
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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June 2004

440 pages

ISBN:1581138326

DOI:10.1145/996350

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University of Arizona
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Nanyang Technological University
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