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User-Centered Design for Biomedical Literature Search User Interfaces

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Biomedical literature search tools are crucial resources for the work of physicians, biologists, and bioinformatics. Many of the genetic-medical diagnoses depend on the findings in these literature resources. Despite the importance and value of the information stored in these resources, the user interface (UI) implemented by such tools present several usability problems converting the query and interpretation of the information into complex and time-consuming tasks. In this sense, an user-centered design (UCD) approach can improve the usability of these UIs facilitating the interaction, analysis, and comparison of biomedical information, and, consequently, improving the productivity of practitioners in this domain. This paper presents a user-centered design (UCD) approach for designing UIs for the search of biomedical literature considering the usability problems and proposing design solutions to such problems. How to apply the UCD approach and the design solutions proposed for the usability problems become the main contribution of this work.

A prior version of this paper has been published in the ISD2018 Proceedings (http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2018).

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Notes

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    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

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    https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

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    https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/10/17/try-our-new-experimental-pubmed-search-and-user-interface-in-pubmed-labs.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki.

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    http://www.nextbio.com/b/nextbio.nb.

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    https://www.iso.org/standard/52075.html.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the members of the PROS Center’s Genome group for fruitful discussions. In addition, it is also important to highlight that Secretaría Nacional de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología (SENESCYT) and Escuela Politécnica Nacional from Ecuador have supported this work. This project also has the support of Generalitat Valenciana through project IDEO (PROMETEOII/2014/039) and Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through project DataME (ref: TIN2016-80811-P).

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  1. Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

    Carlos Iñiguez-Jarrín

  2. Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

    José Ignacio Panach

  3. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Oscar Pastor

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Bo Andersson

  2. School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Björn Johansson

  3. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

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  4. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

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Iñiguez-Jarrín, C., Panach, J.I., Pastor, O. (2019). User-Centered Design for Biomedical Literature Search User Interfaces. In: Andersson, B., Johansson, B., Barry, C., Lang, M., Linger, H., Schneider, C. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22993-1_14

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