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Caria, Federico and Mathiak, Brigitte (2018). A Hybrid Focus Group for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarly Editions of Literary Authors. In: Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces, pp. 267-285. Norderstedt: BoD. ISBN 978-3-7481-0925-9

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Abstract

Digital scholarly editions (DSEs) are becoming more and more important for the work of scholars in the humanities. Yet, little is known about how the end users benefit from DSEs in contrast to paper editions, which kinds of interfaces for digital editions are the most useful and how the user interface of digital editions can be improved systematically. In order to answer these questions, we collected qualitative and quantitative data through a user study with a hybrid focus group of humanities graduate students. Open task scenarios were designed to explore the usefulness of three DSEs. Our key result is that lack of usability can be a serious hurdle for users to effectively use the DSE. This leads the participants to prefer books over the DSE, although they do value the added benefits the DSE o ers in terms of additional content.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Caria, Federico UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mathiak, Brigitte UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bleier, Roman UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bürgermeister, Martina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Klug, Helmut W. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Neuber, Frederike UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schneider, Gerlinde UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Corporate Creators:	Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-91202
Title of Book:	Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces
Series Name at the University of Cologne:	Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik
Volume:	12
Page Range:	pp. 267-285
Date:	2018
Publisher:	BoD
Place of Publication:	Norderstedt
ISBN:	978-3-7481-0925-9
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Zentrale Forschungseinrichtungen > Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science
Related URLs:	Organisation
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/9120