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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Semant Web Inf Syst. 2013;9(1):45–78. doi: 10.4018/jswis.2013010103

Table 2.

An excerpt of usability issues identified in the Heuristic Evaluation, manually filtered by significance. The issues are ranked according to the average severity assigned by the three evaluators.

Short Title Description
Interpretation of results It is very hard to interpret the currently browsed features (see Table 1) of the network visualizations as no information about the actual meaning (or interpretation) of chosen features is provided.
Details of initial concept network visualization unclear Directly after login - when being confronted with the initial ontology concept network visualization - it is unclear what parts of the ontology are represented as nodes, edges, colors and diameter of the nodes.
Unreadable hover text When the mouse is hovering over a node in the graphical representation, the hover text is unreadable if the hovered node has many children and parents.
Wrong vocabulary for Audience Ontology experts might not be familiar with network analysis measures and vocabularies.
Can't move/drag nodes The network interface should support “drag & drop” for nodes, as there are bigger nodes that sometimes conceal smaller underlying nodes.