This document summarizes a study that evaluated the usability of the Virtual Health Library using a methodology for assessing usability in digital libraries. The methodology involved having users complete tasks on the Virtual Health Library website and then assess their satisfaction. The results found that the Virtual Health Library provided a high level of usability.

1. CURSO: ANÁLISE DE SISTEMAS
REDES DE COMPUTADORES
DICIPLINA: INGLÊS TÉCNICO
PROFESSOR:TOM JONES DA SILVA
CARNEIRO
ALUNO: MARCOS HENRIQUE E
KENNETH SOARES

2. Transinformação
LIMA, Izabel França de; OLIVEIRA, Henry Pôncio Cruz
de and SANTANA, Sérgio Rodrigues de
• Methodology to evaluate the level of usability of digital
libraries: a study in the Virtual Health Library.

3. • Abstract
• The aim of this paper was to discuss aspects of applying a
methodology to evaluate usability in digital libraries. A
methodology that deals with the systematization of a usability
assessment tool for digital libraries was used. The aim was to
investigate the level of usability of the Virtual Health
Library, applying a method that measures effectiveness, efficiency
and users' satisfaction when using the digital library.
Methodologically, it is characterized as a formal test of usability.
This test consisted of a list of ten tasks to be performed while using
the website of the Virtual Health Library and the Likert scale was
used to assess users' satisfaction. A quantitative approach based on
descriptive statistics was adopted to analyze the results. The test was
applied between December 5 and December 21, 2011, at the
computer lab of the Health Sciences Center of the Universidade
Federal da Paraíba. The results of the usability test enabled us to
measure the level of usability of the Virtual Health Library, which is
considered to provide a high level of usability.

4. • O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir aspectos da aplicação de
uma metodologia para avaliar a usabilidade em bibliotecas
digitais.
• A metodologia que lida com a sistematização de uma
ferramenta de avaliação de usabilidade de bibliotecas digitais
• Os resultados do teste de utilidade nos permitiu medir o nível
de usabilidade da Biblioteca Virtual, que é considerada para
proporcionar um elevado nível de utilidade.

5. SIM
PORQUE É UMA MANEIRA DE TERMOS INFORÇÕES DE
MANEIRA RAPIDA DE ONDE ESTIVERMOS.
HOJE NOS VIVEMOS EM UMA ERA DIGITAL E TUDO A
NOSSA VOLTA TENDE A SER ABSORVIDO PELA
INTERNET, QUE QUER DIZER INFORMAÇÃO DE
MANIERA RAPIDA.

6. Bibliografia
• Transinformação [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.2, pp 135143. ISSN 0103-3786. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S010337862013000200004.
• http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S
0103-37862013000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
• 30.10.2013 FORTALEZA CE
• 18:30hs