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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-018-10-1308</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23547</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.5.2 - User Interfaces</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Usability Evaluation Methods for a Scientific Internet Information Portal</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Hellmers</surname>
            <given-names>Jens</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">hellmers@iwt.uni-bremen.de</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Thomaschewski</surname>
            <given-names>Jörg</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Holt</surname>
            <given-names>Eva-Maria</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Wriedt</surname>
            <given-names>Thomas</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Bremen</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Bremen</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Emden</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">(SEVEN PRINCIPLES, Ratingen, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>(SEVEN PRINCIPLES</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Ratingen</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Jens Hellmers (<email xlink:type="simple">hellmers@iwt.uni-bremen.de</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>1308</fpage>
      <lpage>1322</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/D3F6B341-BABD-56B2-9CA7-FA9C876B2388">D3F6B341-BABD-56B2-9CA7-FA9C876B2388</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505599">5505599</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>26</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Jens Hellmers, Jörg Thomaschewski, Eva-Maria Holt, Thomas Wriedt</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Sharing information is important for the scientific community. Over the years the internet became the main information source due to its actuality, interactivity and flexibility. While the amount of available data grows, especially non-profit scientific internet pages often lack the user friendliness known from commercial offers, sometimes they also fail to focus on the users needs. To analyze and improve the attractiveness of internet pages it became common to apply methods of usability engineering. But as it requires a certain amount of work it is usually done in 'big scale' for commercial offers. In this paper we would like to demonstrate the evaluation of a non-commercial scientific information internet portal using methods of usability engineering. For this an online User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) in combination with web traffic analysis was used. We also would like to outline the experience made during the evaluation process, as well as some of the results.</p>
      </abstract>
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