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Article: Creating a User-Friendly Database.(Review)
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- Information Today
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- March 1, 2000
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A well-designed interface is an important foundation for online success
When the personal computer is your primary means for finding research information, usability becomes a major issue. What were merely irritations when an electronic database was used infrequently become major roadblocks to effective searching when that product is used often. The study of "human-computer interactions" (HCI) is a way to help solve these problems. HCI attempts to understand how people use computers and then design interfaces to take these needs into account. Now that libraries are providing access to so many electronic products, interface evaluation is an important part of the ...