As usual my students studying User Centred Design came up with some excellent ideas for an information service. The aim is to design an information service that is targeted at a specific group of people who share common information needs. The service must address their information needs; the questions that are in their mind and must relate to the demographics of the group, such as, age or gender and the information behaviour norms of the community. For example, whether the people like text or images; respond to certain colours; are going to respond to startling images. Younger people may want a gaming element to help them engage and so on. The emotional state of the user should also be considered - as well as all the bog standard stuff of good human computer interface design (HCI) and accessibility.
One group chose to enable people, young women in their early 20s, to get information about cervical cancer. Apparently in England women in the early twenties are not eligible for free screening or vaccination on the NHS, whereas in other places they are.
Any way, I thought the poster they created to advertise the service was good as well as the Web interface.
Hi Mark
ReplyDeletepeople using information for learning about health is a key aspect of information literacy in the community I think. At QUT I have been working with some colleagues ( led by Dr Helen Partridge and Christine Yates) to research health informaiton literacy. A paper will be pubilshed in a few months in Australian Library Journal. Other information literacy papers by the QUT team (eg Helen Partridge, Sylvia Edwards, Mandy Lupton, Judy Peacock and Christine Bruce) are available through http://eprints.qut.edu.au
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