3.6 Perception on using animal health platforms or risk analysis
tools
When evaluating the systems or tools the respondents usually worked
with, there was a total of 198 respondents to this section. The user
opinion was equally shared (51% saying yes and the remainder saying no)
regarding the question of systems or tools being user friendly.
Respondents were asked about which issues/problems they encountered
(more than one option could be chosen giving a total of N=397
responses). These were in decreasing order: data accessibility (33.5%),
not enough information (31.74%), slow (16.88%), difficult to
understand the page (12.34%) and other (5.54%). When observing the two
subgroups of user friendly or not (Figure 10) , respondents who
did not find the animal information systems user friendly considered the
biggest issue to be difficulties understanding the page (69.39%). On
the other spectrum, the respondents who did find these systems user
friendly had an issue with the systems being slow (47.76%).
Regarding what feature the respondents considered important the Poisson
model suggested that when using the feature “be able to customise the
interface and functionality that you use” as the reference category
that with the exception of the feature “login fewer times with fewer
user accounts and passwords” all the other features were significantly
higher in importance than the reference. In decreasing order of
importance these features were: “data accessibility and availability”,
“extraction of information”, “extraction of results/information”,
“display of information”, “user friendly”, “the way the results are
displayed”, “easy to find during web search”, “risk assessment
methodologies”, “easy contact for help”, “queries and other
information”, “access software and information while off campus/work
space”, “publications regarding the tool used”, with “login fewer
times with fewer user accounts and passwords” and “be able to
customise the interface and functionality that you use” being equally
of least importance (Figure 11 ).