title: Development of an e-learning system for occupational medicine: usability issues.
abstract: The aim of the present paper is to describe the process of developing an e-learning system for continuous medical education in the field of occupational medicine, with special focus on usability. The following steps are described: the needs analysis of the potential users; the prototype of the system that has been set up; the usability evaluation of the prototype by a sample of ten users; the analysis of the potential improvements; the evaluation of the revised system. The results of the usability tests point out that investing in improving usability was useful, even when they have not been recommended as mandatory. Only data collected from real active users will provide a more exhaustive evaluation, nevertheless it can be considered that positive results can be expected.
authors.affiliation: S. Maugeri Foundation IRCCS, Pavia, Italy. cmazzoleni@fsm.it
authors.forename: M Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mazzoleni
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rognoni
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Finozzi
authors.forename: Ines
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Giorgi
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pugliese
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagani
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pimbriani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007558:Italy; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000193:education*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface