Collecting User Data to Improve Your Learning Commons Webcast Recording

Last updated February 6, 2017

Collecting User Data to Improve Your Learning Commons Webcast Recording

Last updated February 6, 2017

Overview

Gain tangible, flexible, and evidence-based methods to immediately begin collecting and using data to inform your learning commons design. Kristin Meyer, User Experience Librarian, will show you how Grand Valley State University collected user driven data to improve its spaces. You will learn how you can adapt those methods to your unique institutional context and improve your own learning commons.

Throughout the online training you will have the opportunity to look at photos of learning commons spaces to better visualize the topics discussed.

Who should attend?

This program is ideal for those who are in the visioning or planning phase of a library learning commons, or those looking for a way to collect data within their current budget to inform space decisions.

Agenda

  • Various techniques to research user behavior and opinions
    • Physical usability test
    • Conducting observations
    • Using photographs to collect data
    • Ethnographic mapping
    • Visual displays
  • Analyzing user experience data to inform space decisions
  • Steps forward for ongoing collection and monitoring

Tools for Gathering User Data

In addition to the live webcast, your registration will give you access to a valuable resource packet that will help jumpstart your data-gathering effort. This packet includes:

  • Information on 6+ different user research techniques that you can use with tips for implementing the technique
  • A step-by-step guide to identifying and using each step of the human centered design process