2017 ESIP Summer Meeting

The Usability Cluster was re-initiated at the ESIP Summer Meeting 2016, and during the first year of the Cluster’s reactivation, the Cluster has been working in a number of different areas, including learning about various usability evaluation techniques, discussing usability issues at data repositories, and assessing usability of several data services/tools as use cases. Ultimately, building on the lessons learned from these activities, the Usability Cluster is working on developing and introducing a Usability Test Framework that could be used when designing and applying usability evaluations for Earth Science-centric data repositories/services.

During this session, the Usability Cluster members and anyone else who is interested will have a hands-on opportunity to review the current progress, create content, and recommend feedback/future opportunities for the Usability Test Framework. 

The session agenda is included below:

• Report Out from the RMap team regarding the team's experience with the Framework (~5 minutes)
  
  • They won’t have performed any usability tests at this point, but can talk about the process of developing the test using the framework.
• Introduction of the Usability Test Framework (5 - 10 minutes)
• Creation of a new test script for the Data Management Training Clearinghouse as a demonstration of the Framework (~45 minutes)
  
  • Introduction to the Data Management Training Clearinghouse
  • Explanation of goals for performing usability testing using the Data Management Training Clearinghouse
• Critique of the Current Content and Discussion of the next steps for the Framework (15 minutes)
  
  • Comparison with Nielsen Norman Group: https://www.nngroup.com/training/course/1816/usability-testing/
• Completion the "Post-Test Reflection" section (can be reserved for the next monthly call as needed)

The Data Stewardship Committee has been active over the last year in a number of different areas, including Provenance and Context Content Standard, Data Management Training, Information Quality, and Identifiers/Citations. This session will discuss progress on committee activities, and provide an opportunity for making plans and determining roadmap for the next 6 months toward the committee’s strategic objectives:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/ESIP_Data_Stewardship_Strategic_Plan_Calendar_Year_2017