1. MaNIS Interface Project Mayjane Co Denise Green Jane Lee Rebecca Shapley

2. The MaNIS Project ► ► NSF funded project to develop network of distributed databases of mammal specimen data ► ► Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley is one of 17 North American institutions involved.

3. Prototype 1 vs. Prototype 2 Feedback From: ► ► Severity 3 Violations ID’d by Paparazzi ► ► Marti ► ► Team Members Changes To: ► Panel Relationships ► Documentation ► Zero Results ► State Indicators ► New Search

4. Panel Relationships - Old

5. Panel Relationships - New

6. Documentation – Old

7. Documentation – New

8. Zero Results - Old

9. Zero Results - New

10. State Indicators - Old

11. State Indicators - New

12. New Search - Old

13. New Search - New

14. Demo

15. Pilot Usability Study: Purpose ► Can users understand, navigate, and use the interface without any training or explanation? ► Were there substantial improvements between the first interactive prototype and this second interactive prototype?

16. Pilot Usability Study: Method ► 3 participants  Biology student  Faculty curator  Research information manager CAS ► 3 scenarios  Which museums should I visit to review specimens?  Where is the best place to capture a bat?  What species is this? ► 2 test measures  Task Time  Number of Errors

17. What the Critics are Saying (Results of the Study) ► Users liked the step-by-step search refinement ► After one successful search they understood how the system worked ► Average rating for ease-of-use 4.3 out of 5 ► Average rating for overall satisfaction 4.3 out of 5

18. Lessons Learned ► User’s experience level with previous interfaces affects their expectations ► Designing a single interface to suit the beginner, the moderate user, and the super-user all at once continues to be a difficult challenge ► Both heuristic evaluation and usability tests provided lots of useful feedback ► Schedule more users than you need

19. Last Prototype Version What we aren’t doing: ► Have two conditions within one facet, related by OR. ► Ideas for the AND/OR display. ► Hundreds of other details we were able to imagine as good features of our design….

20. Last Prototype Version What we are doing: ► Display preview numbers on hyperlinks that add search conditions ► Location search in multiple fields ► Bold text within results where it matches search text

21. Last Prototype Version …or is it? The Research Information Manager at California Academy of Sciences considering implementing this design for some CAS online databases. BNHM /MVZ Summer internship involving implementation of design ideas into the actual MaNIS project.