This project was completed for the Office of Communications at NASA Headquarters to determine the current state of NASA’s webspace. As per the Federal CIO, NASA currently supports 3092 website URLs. Our team randomly selected 312 websites from NASA’s webspace and surveyed their responsible NASA employee for information about the website. With the survey data, our team developed personas from each of NASA’s target audiences. Our team conducted user experience testing with these personas to observe the effectiveness of NASA’s websites in serving their target audiences. This project resulted in data on the current state of NASA’s webspace, the potential effectiveness of tested websites, and evidence that persona driven user testing could be a useful technique for NASA in the future.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Green, Nicholas Edward
• Wethern, Drew Cronin
• Marciano, Jesse Axelrod
• Nelson, John Perry

Subject

• Industry
• Computing
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121715-105815

Keyword

• Web sites--Design and construction
• Application software--Development
• Organizational effectiveness

Advisor

• Servatius, Brigitte
• Looft, Fred J.

Year

• 2015

Center

• Washington, DC Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• NASA

Date created

• 2015-12-17

Location

• Washington

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright