End User Evaluation of the FAIR4Health Data Curation Tool

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27:281:8-12. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210110.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to build an evaluation framework for the user-centric testing of the Data Curation Tool. The tool was developed in the scope of the FAIR4Health project to make health data FAIR by transforming them from legacy formats into a Common Data Model based on HL7 FHIR. The end user evaluation framework was built by following a methodology inspired from the Delphi method. We applied a series of questionnaires to a group of experts not only in different roles and skills, but also from various parts of Europe. Overall, 26 questions were formulated for 16 participants. The results showed that the users are satisfied with the capabilities and performance of the tool. The feedbacks were considered as recommendations for technical improvement and fed back into the software development cycle of the Data Curation Tool.

Keywords: Data Curation; Data Transformation; FAIR Data; HL7 FHIR; Software Ergonomics; Software Evaluation; User-Computer Interaction.

MeSH terms

  • Data Curation*
  • Europe
  • Humans
  • Software*