Development of a usability checklist for public health dashboards to identify violations of usability principles.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a usability checklist for public health dashboards.

Materials and methods

This study systematically evaluated all publicly available dashboards for sexually transmitted infections on state health department websites in the United States (N = 13). A set of 11 principles derived from the information visualization literature were used to identify usability problems that violate critical usability principles: spatial organization, information coding, consistency, removal of extraneous ink, recognition rather than recall, minimal action, dataset reduction, flexibility to user experience, understandability of contents, scientific integrity, and readability. Three user groups were considered for public health dashboards: public health practitioners, academic re

SUBMITTER: Ansari B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9552210 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature