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Direct linkGriffiths, David; Beauvoir, Phillip; Liber, Oleg; Barrett-Baxendale, Mark – Distance Education, 2009
The use of the Web to deliver open, distance, and flexible learning has opened up the potential for social interaction and adaptive learning, but the usability, expressivity, and interoperability of the available tools leave much to be desired. This article explores these issues as they relate to teachers and learning designers through the case of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Use Studies, Program Development, Standards
Peer reviewedCombs, Joseph, Jr. – Library Software Review, 1998
Discusses the Z39.50 standard (pertaining to client software) that provides information searching and retrieval from remote servers to offer a consistent user interface; reviews currently available client software; and provides a checklist for evaluating Z39.50 client software. (LRW)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews
Ide, Nancy M.; Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
In the case of digital collections of text, provision of a simple unified user interface faces several challenges, among them a tension between intellectual adequacy and simplicity of access. Examines the question of how to allow cross-collection searching and display while preserving the variation in texts and their markup and points to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval
Feldman, Susan – Computers in Libraries, 1999
Discusses the need for usability testing for information systems and for librarians to recognize what makes computer interfaces either easy or difficult to use. Highlights include user friendliness; navigation; standards; visual appeal; layout and design; feedback; help screens; and the usability-testing process. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Information Systems
