This November 22nd, Alejandro Morales Vargas, an esteemed member of the DigiDoc Group, will defend his doctoral thesis
This November 22nd, Alejandro Morales Vargas, an esteemed member of the DigiDoc Group, will defend his doctoral thesis
This November 22nd, Alejandro Morales Vargas, an esteemed member of the DigiDoc Group, will defend his doctoral thesis
The aim of Alejandro's research is to characterize website quality as a field of study, examine its evaluation methods and instruments – identifying their approaches and the factors they analyse – and formulate a model for the development of new comprehensive instruments. To do this, through a literature review, the field’s leading authors, their disciplines of origin and the sector of the websites studied were detected.
Among the results, the recognition of three main approaches stands: strategic, functional and experiential. Also, that the technique of expert analysis predominates over user studies; and that most organize the characteristics to be evaluated – for example, usability and content – into parameters and indicators.
Furthermore, based on the most cited works, two new website quality assessment instruments and a framework to create them are proposed, as part of a multipurpose model that also seeks to advance towards a shared terminological conceptualization.
This research was co-directed by Dr.Rafael Pedraza and Dr.Lluís Codina. The tribunal of this defense will be composed by Dr.Mario Pérez-Montoro (President), from the Universitat de Barcelona; Dr.Cristofol Rovira Fontanals (Secretary), from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra; and Dr.Javier Guallar Delgado (Vocal), from the Universitat de Barcelona.
The event will take place the next November 22nd, at 12:00 pm, in the Auditori Mercè Rodoreda (Campus de Ciutadella). It will also be available via streaming.