Here, we report on an effort to bring together text mining tool developers and database biocurators to test the utility and usability of tools.
Through an ethnographic approach, the aim is to broaden the scope of investigation and measure the usability of tools for musicians in a real world setting.
First, the usability of tools and metaphor must free cognitive resources for planning; but also, the difficulty of the task and the need for planning must remain visible to the user.
2. Practicality issues: These address performance, genericity, and usability of tools; case studies and experience reports; and industrial use and feedback.
The (lack of) usability of tools and fit with users' working practices played a crucial role in limiting the uptake of grid computing but there was also lack of a pathway from the demonstration of benefits through to early stages of skills acquisition and adoption through to routine use [6].
Therefore views about the usefulness and usability of tools may be different among public health professionals who do not interact with a KB or are involved in these roles.
Kinson suggests "it is simply a case of building the right curriculum, as virtually all of the infrastructure to do this exists today, but stripping back one or two layers of the usability of some of today's tools to ensure people learn the fundamental principles and skills".
Additional useful information would include the following: a specific 'how-to' manual for implementing the CPG (which might include a downloadable lecture, a sample project timeline, and estimated personnel, time and monetary requirements); links to general change management resources; and evidence of usability testing of the implementation tools to match the rigor of the CPG development process.
As a start in this direction, the US Department of Veteran Affairs has established a usability laboratory to support the rapid prototyping of new health IT designs, formal usability testing and the development of analysis tools to assess existing technologies.
In addition, (e)health literacy skills need to be taken into account to ensure usability of these tools.
