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Robins, David – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Presents an abstract for a planned session on the need to coordinate user studies and information retrieval system design research. Topics include human-based research and system-based research; children's information use; usability and cartographic information systems; and ethnomethodology and system design. Panelists included: Nick Belkin, Dania…
Descriptors: Cartography, Children, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedBianchi, Nadia; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes the architecture of an anthropocentric Biomedical Information Management System prototype that is based on a network of computational components, or agents, that expert biomedical users can define, use, and refine to serve their own communication and documentation habits and needs. The innovation of the proposal, the Participatory Design…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Computer System Design, Information Management, Information Systems
Zeichick, Alan – EContent, 2003
Discusses archiving digital information and the need for organizations to develop policies regarding digital asset management (DAM) and storage. Topics include determining the value of digital assets; formats of digital information; use of stored information; and system architecture, including hardware and asset management software. (LRW)
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Information Management
Peer reviewedHohhof, Bonnie – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses issues connected with developing information systems for competitive intelligence support; defines the elements of an effective competitive information system; and summarizes issues affecting system design and implementation. Highlights include intelligence information; information needs; information sources; decision making; and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer System Design, Decision Making, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedCase, Donald Owen – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Examines how users interact with text to devise a more effective information retrieval interface. Research in cognitive psychology and information science that relates to the use of metaphors and document categorization is reviewed, and an example of text organization and retrieval by historians is presented. (60 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Psychology, Computer System Design, Documentation
Peer reviewedBurns, Catherine M.; Vicente, Kim J. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes an empirical evaluation that investigated the criteria by which designers of human-machine systems evaluate design information. Professional designers of nuclear power plant control rooms rated hypothetical information search questions in terms of relevance, importance, cost, and effort based on Rouse's model of information search…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Correlation, Costs, Designers
