Ergonomic inspection checklist of institutional digital repositories

Abstract

Context – digital repositories are informational environments for managing and controlling the scientific and academic production of institutions and/or communities; Gap – however, they can present gaps such as navigation flaws, low usability and accessibility, limited searches, little disclosure of the environment and little or no use of customizable services; Purpose – from this context, an ergonomic evaluation of institutional digital repositories becomes necessary; Methodology – an integrative review of the literature was carried out to evaluate the state of the art of usability techniques applied to the ergonomics of institutional digital repositories and to support the methods applied in this work, the file of the included articles helped in the choice of the usability evaluation method, selection of a set of requirements for usability inspection in institutional digital repositories; Final considerations: the integrative literature review strategy in the databases used and used descriptors showed that the tests applied improve the usability of digital repositories. During this study, it was observed the lack of a checklist focused on ergonomic specifications and recommendations to evaluate the ergonomics and usability of institutional digital repositories. To fill this gap, an ergonomic inspection checklist was proposed for these digital repositories.

Keywords: ergonomics. cognitive ergonomics. mental workload. Usability.