Design and usability study of an iconic user interface to ease information retrieval of medical guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Doc'CISMeF (DC) is a semantic search engine used to find resources in CISMeF-BP, a quality controlled health gateway, which gathers guidelines available on the internet in French. Visualization of Concepts in Medicine (VCM) is an iconic language that may ease information retrieval tasks. This study aimed to describe the creation and evaluation of an interface integrating VCM in DC in order to make this search engine much easier to use.

Methods

Focus groups were organized to suggest ways to enhance information retrieval tasks using VCM in DC. A VCM interface was created and improved using the ergonomic evaluation approach. 20 physicians were recruited to compare the VCM interface with the non-VCM one. Each evaluator answered two different clinical sce

SUBMITTER: Griffon N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4173161 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature