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This study discusses one of the three measures defined within the usability testing, namely the user satisfaction, when evaluating an ontology engineering tool based on social processes. The motivation of our focus lays in the fact that being driven by communities through social interactions, the ontology engineering process depends on what the user does, sees and feels when using the system. The evaluation criteria proposed here are therefore developed by looking at the people involved, the processes and their outcomes, mostly taking into account the user experience, in an approach that goes beyond usability. The paper identifies the problems the users encounter when using the system, both at a technical level and psychometric level. A set of recommendations is proposed in order to overcome these problems and to improve the user experience with the system.
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Ciuciu, I., Debruyne, C. (2012). Assessing the User Satisfaction with an Ontology Engineering Tool Based on Social Processes. In: Herrero, P., Panetto, H., Meersman, R., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33618-8_33
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