Cultures of Health Website Study (PDF)

Spring of 2008 I was contracted to perform a usability study of the Cultures of Health website, a research group at the University of Windsor. I performed a brief heuristic evaluation of the website as well as a lab usability study with 6 highly targeted participants. While the participants understood the concept behind the website fairly well most unsure how they would continually use it. This was frustrating because one of the goals of the website was to create a community and harvest the energy of user generated content. Some of the recommendations lead towards fixing this goal.