How Could an Intranet be Like a Friend to Me?: Why Standardized UX Scales Don't Always Fit

Lallemand, Carine; Koenig, Vincent

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How Could an Intranet be Like a Friend to Me?: Why Standardized UX Scales Don't Always Fit

Lallemand, Carine; Koenig, Vincent

2017 • In Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2017, p. 9-16

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Standardized UX scales; meCUE questionnaire; workplace UX assessment; UX; user experience; evaluation; intranet; design

Abstract :

[en] "I hope that this survey is a joke because it made me laugh so much". This quote is just one example of many negative respondents' reactions gathered during a large-scale user experience (UX) study. Unfortunately, the survey was no joke, rather a well-constructed and validated standardized UX scale. This paper critically reflects on the use and relevance of standardized UX scales for the evaluation of UX in business contexts. We report on a real-world use case where the meCUE questionnaire has been used to assess employees' experience (N=263) with their organization's intranet. Strong users' reactions to the survey's items and statistical analyses both suggest that the scale is unsuitable for the evaluation of business-oriented systems. Drawing on the description of this inadequacy, we discuss the quality of academic UX tools, calling into question the relevance for practice of academic methods.

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Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others

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Lallemand, Carine ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)

Koenig, Vincent ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)

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English

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How Could an Intranet be Like a Friend to Me?: Why Standardized UX Scales Don't Always Fit

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October 2017

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European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2017

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Umeå, Sweden

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September 19 - 22, 2017

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International

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Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2017

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ACM, New York, United States

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9-16

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Peer reviewed

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