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• Announcements
  
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Updates on previous business
    • UX actions with DSpace 8 testathon
      • could be more qualitative work with users
      • testathon
      • need people to create tests
      • multi-pronged, for testathon and in-depth
      • types of tests provided by developer in Usability working group at Cornell 
        • OptimalWorkshop (https://www.optimalworkshop.com/solutions/research/) will let you do these types of tests - 
          • Surveys (we could do this in LibWizard too if the other Dspace institutions use Springshare products or Qualtrics)
          • Card Sorts (open - the user tells us how they'd organize it --- or closed - we give the user categories to organize the cards into)
          • Tree testing (this is for Information Architecture - see if your navigation makes sense to your users)
          • First click (where people go to first on your website)
          • qualitative - so like a survey - uncovers user's painpoints - hard to do this unless user has some familiarity with interface --
          • They also have some good user guides for each type of test in case people are interested -- https://www.optimalworkshop.com/learn/user-interviews-101-user-interviews-overview/ 
        • In person, we could do user studies asking different (random) individuals to do a specific number of tasks (usually like 5) to see how they try to navigate to a specific tool or find an element (and if they're successful).  The only issue here is sometimes your subjects aren't representative of your user base.
          • • DSpace 8 testathon
            • DCAT Vice Chair
            • Community Engagement Theme
            • Documentation for different DSpace versions

• New business
  
  • DSpace topics for upcoming meetings

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