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? Feedback from project sponsors suggests the design will inform HerpNet, OrNIS, and a future MaNIS revision. The Research Information Manager at California Academy of Sciences considering implementing this design for some CAS online databases. BNHM /MVZ Summer internship extending the design development to maps, advanced queries.

22. Last Prototype Version …or is it? “The SIMS213 team … has produced a remarkably innovative and useful prototype… designed to aid both the knowledgeable researcher and the casual user to find relevant information. …[T]he design innovations apply equally well to at least two additional MaNIS-derived NSF projects, HerpNet and ORNIS, under which the designs can be further developed into a production system. I offer my sincere thanks for the hard work, careful thought, and open-minded creativity applied by the team.” - John Wieczorek, MaNIS developer