Usability Heuristics Assessment Tool (UHAT)

Digital technologies, such as websites and mobile phone apps, have become integral to projects in participatory citizen science practice. Organizations, volunteers, and project staff increasingly leverage digital tools to support important tasks such as delivering training material, reaching wider communities of participants, and supporting more efficient data collection and verification efforts.

Our ongoing research develops, UHAT, an online tool for self-assessing the usability of digital tools for citizen science.

Take our UHAT self-assessment for participatory sciences using the link below and contribute to our ongoing research in developing a heuristics-based assessment tool that can help assist project staff in identifying strengths and areas for improvement across their online digital resources.