Engaging the User: Elaboration and Execution of Trials with a Database of Illuminated Images

Issues to Be Addressed for Transforming a Digital Library Application for Experts into One for Final Users

“…The trials were held in two different moments: the first time the trial was carried out with two groups of university students in October and November 2011, the second time was in April 2012 with a different cohort of university student. The IPSA trials turned out to be a fruitful way to have a useful feedback from the students, and they helped to improve the application and its functions; the results of the trial we conducted in 2011 are mainly reported in (Ponchia, 2012). In the following we report on the additional insights we gained with trial and interviews conducted in 2012.…”

The Evaluation Approach of IPSA@CULTURA

“…Afterwards, they were asked to give their feedback by filling in an online questionnaire specifically prepared by a team of psychologists from the University of Graz, a partner of the CULTURA project. The results of these evaluations were reported in [3].…”

Guided Tours Across a Collection of Historical Digital Images

“…Narratives aim at highlighting the richness of the available digital content, which may be difficult to retrieve for non-experts, and to give the users the preliminary information they need to navigate the collection and to take advantage of their interaction with the system. We tested the approach with a task-oriented evaluation [6]. A group of users followed a narrative before using IPSA@CULTURA, while a control group accessed the content directly.…”