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Category Archives: Mobile discovery
Technical Approach
The MACON interface has been developed by adapting MIT’s mobile web project which is an open source software and taking inspiration from NCSU mobile web project. We tweaked the code and user interface elements to meet our requirements and have also enhanced WURFL … Continue reading
Lessons Learnt
Mobile Discovery This project reinforced that developing for mobile devices is complex because of the wide range of operating systems, browsers, screen resolution and processing power that are in common use at present. We also learnt that our users do … Continue reading
Posted in Evaluation, Final project report, Mobile Audiovisual discovery, Mobile bookmarklet tool, Mobile discovery
Tagged method, open data
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Approaches to improving mobile authentication
One of the aims of the MACON project was to develop a bookmarklet that would allow users to authenticate securely without having to enter their full Open University password every time they wanted to access a mobile e-resource. OU students … Continue reading
Major Outputs
1. Prototype discovery tool for delivery of academic content to mobile devices. The discovery tool draws on the EBSCO API to return search results within the Open University Library’s mobile website. The user requirements and the technical approach for this prototype … Continue reading
Posted in Final project report, Mobile discovery, Project management
Tagged method, progress update
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User requirements report
Aim The purpose of gathering user requirements was to ensure that the development of the mobile search resulted in a user-friendly interface with functionality that would make it useful and attractive to OU students and staff. Method Members of Open … Continue reading
Posted in Evaluation, Mobile discovery
Tagged diary study, progress update, user requirements
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Developing simpler authentication for mobile users
One of the deliverables of this project is a “mobile bookmarklet tool”, which is intended to help address the difficulty of entering a complex password into a mobile keyboard. The difficulties encountered tend to be with accessing special characters and … Continue reading
Invitation to OU Staff: search the library on your mobile phone and win an Amazon voucher!
OU Library Services would like to invite you to take part in assessing our mobile library search tool in order to help us improve it. If you are willing to take part you will be asked to carry out any … Continue reading
Posted in Evaluation, Mobile discovery
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User requirements – diary study
In order to ascertain user requirements for our mobile discovery interface, we are going to ask members of Open University staff to try out a prototype mobile search interface we already have. We will recruit some academic staff, and some … Continue reading
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User requirements gathering – choosing a methodology
One of our first steps in this project has to be finding out what users really want from a mobile discovery interface. In this case users include OU students, OU staff and OU librarians. We considered the following three methods: … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile discovery, Project management
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