A usabilidade na perspectiva do uso da informação: estatísticas das pesquisas sobre o tema no Brasil

Abstract

This work presents various issues relating to usability, positioning it as a key factor in favor of the dissemination of information. Looking for to contribute to the increase in research on the topic, in the context of Information Science, presents detailed data of research groups in Brazil. This paper also reveals the size of the scientific community involved, clustering the data of this scientific community regarding the geopolitical regions of Brazil, detailing the data of the States for the three predominant regions. It identifies the major areas of knowledge that actively participate in the research of usability and particularized the analysis on subarea of Information Science. Also crossing data between active research groups in theme with data from Lattes curricula, and establishing relationships between these groups and researchers, categorizing them according to the following metadata: the academic degree; connections with any research group; area of activity; main area and sub-area of egress of the researcher; academic trends in the levels of undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees. It particularizes the analysis by segmenting a micro population comprised by Researchers with doctoral degree which work in usability research, and have academic performance in the subarea of Information Science. Some of the results are: a) the three predominant academic backgrounds of undergraduate researchers who participate in research related to usability, with an area of activity in the subarea of Information Science are: Library Science, Computer Science and Administration. When we consider the academic degree of PhD, Information Science appears with Production Engineering and Computer Science with 9%; b) the micro population with doctoral degree from the Scientific Community involved in research related to usability, with an area of activity in the subarea of Information Science, is limited to 209 researchers, representing Researchers involved.