Recommended Citation
Salvo, Michael; Brizee, H. Allen; Driscoll, Dana Lynn; and Sousa, Morgan, "Preliminary Report to the Purdue Writing Lab: Assessing Usability of the "New" Online Writing Lab (OWL) Design and Contents" (2006). Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Research Reports. Paper 1.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/writinglabreps/1
Date of this Version
6-2006
Keywords
usability, design, writing centers, OWL, rhetoric, professional writing
Abstract
This report is submitted June 16, 2006 to the Purdue University Writing Lab, specifically to Linda Bergmann, Director; Tammy Conard-Salvo, Associate Director; and Karl Stolley, Lead Web Designer. Intended to inform the ongoing redesign of the Online Writing Lab (OWL), it is written to maintain the highest level of usability and user-centered design of a unique, globally-utilized information resource. This document is a preliminary report limited to initial findings from a five-step usability testing protocol conducted February 25 through March 3, 2006. This testing plan was submitted to Purdue’s Institutional Review Board’s Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB) and exempted from further review (#0502000117).
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