Blog Post #2: Research Topic and Sources

I've decided to use the DSU website usability topic I mentioned in the first blog post for my research topic. I'm planning to use other universities' website usability studies and articles on methods for conducting usability studies as sources. With that in mind, my 10 tentative sources are as follows:

  • Glenn Jones, P. W., & Davenport, E. K. (2021). Website Presence and Usability Among Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Journal of Negro Education, 90(1), 123–137. (LINK)
  • Vlachogianni, P., & Tselios, N. (2021). Perceived usability evaluation of educational technology using the System Usability Scale (SUS): A systematic review. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2020.1867938 (LINK)
  • Lažetić, P. (2020). Studying similarities and differences in higher education organisations based on their websites – comparative methodological approaches and research potential. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(1), 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2019.1672286 (LINK)
  • Peker, S., Kucukozer-Cavdar, S., & Cagiltay, K. (2016). Exploring the relationship between web presence and web usability for universities. Program, 50(2), 157–174. https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-04-2014-0024 (LINK)
  • Rahman, M. S., & Ahmed, S. Z. (2013). Exploring the factors influencing the usability of academic websites: A case study in a university setting. Business Information Review, 30(1), 40–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266382113482557 (LINK)
  • Al-Khalifa, H. S. (2014). A framework for evaluating university mobile websites. Online Information Review, 38(2), 166–185. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-12-2012-0231 (LINK)
  • Alkindi, S., & Bouazza, A. (2010). An evaluation study of the navigation and search systems on two academic websites and Google. International Information & Library Review, 42(1), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iilr.2009.12.002 (LINK)
  • Tella, A. (2020). Interactivity, usability and aesthetic as predictors of undergraduates’ preference for university library websites. South African Journal of Libraries & Information Science, 86(2), 16–25. https://doi.org/10.7553/86-2-1905 (LINK)
  • Vargas Ochoa, I. (2020). Navigation Design and Library Terminology: Findings from a User-Centered Usability Study on a Library Website. Information Technology & Libraries, 39(4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v39i4.12123 (LINK)
  • Zammarchi, G., Frigau, L., & Mola, F. (2021). Markov chain to analyze web usability of a university website using eye tracking data. Statistical Analysis & Data Mining, 14(4), 331–341. https://doi.org/10.1002/sam.11512 (LINK)

Comments

  1. EmmaSeptember 14, 2021 at 7:48 PM

    I think it's really cool that your research topic is related to something that could (possibly, if needed) improve things for our school--or at least see how we are doing compared to other universities haha. Usability is such an interesting topic and I think you could do so much with this! I'm excited to read your final research plan!

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  2. Autumn NuzmanSeptember 15, 2021 at 6:47 PM

    Revision Plan:
    *Check databases besides the old reliable Academic Search Premiere.
    *Double check to make sure these sources are all relevant beyond just their names and abstracts.

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  3. Dr. Florence Elizabeth BacabacSeptember 16, 2021 at 1:34 PM

    Hi Autumn,

    Great progress and preliminary thoughts about your topic, so far! I really like the usability idea of exploring our school site (with your initial sources) as presented in this second blog. Based on your revision plans upon reflecting on your Tentative 10, I suspect you'll be distilling more of this topic as you plow through and annotate sources this weekend, so just keep an open mind.

    When you're ready to write an outline of your Lit. Review final draft next week OR, most especially, when you start planning/drafting your Research Proposal later on (writing assign #2), let me know if you need help narrowing things down further amidst the diverse sources you've found.

    Keep up the good work!

    Dr. B

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