JISC

Summary 

The Rave in Context project will build a new user interface for the popular eScience tool myExperiment. Our new interface will focus on usability, accessibility and adaptability to user experience and device form factor. Furthermore, we will build a uniform search feature across myExperiment, Simal and OpenDOAR repositories in order to make it easier for researchers to learn how to use these research tools together. All user interface components will be delivered as reusable W3C Widgets, allowing features of myExperiment to be embedded in other widget enabled tools such as Drupal, Wordpress, Elgg and Moodle. We expect the ability to embed discrete units of myExperiment functionality in common dissemination tools will help myExperiment expand its user community. Finally, by providing open source widget templates for progressively enhanced user interfaces we intend to make it easier for future projects to build similar user interfaces.

Objectives

In this project we aim to expand our experience of creating usable and accessible mobile web interfaces, produce documentation relating to our experiences and generate reusable W3C Widgets to help others build on the interface work we are undertaking. In addition to this we hope to share our developed expertise within the communities around the projects with which we engage, and also with attendees at events where we present the results of our work.

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes 

1. Project blog
2. Report on usability/learnability in the mobile space
3. Report on accessibility in the mobile space
4. Report on evaluation of UI prototypes
5. Usable, accessible, learnable and adaptable W3C widget templates and widgets
6. Final usability report
7. Facilitation of future interface work undertaken by ourselves and third parties
8. Dissemination of results and experiences at appropriate events