Website usability research
Despite commercial website usability design guidelines (Nielsen 2000), the usability of
geospatially enabled citizen science websites involving complex data entry features needs
additional evaluation. Traditional web evaluation approaches involve both quantitative and
qualitative assessments (Zimmerman and Paschal 2009) that employ usability engineering
(Good et al. 1986, Nielsen 1993, Coltekin et al. 2009). Usability factors evaluated include
satisfaction, efficiency, and effectiveness (Coltekin et al. 2009) and are often measured with