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Ann Marie Cotman; F. Chris Curran; Katharine Harris-Walls – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
Choices made on data visualizations guide how users make meaning of the information presented. This research investigates design decisions made on 115 state-level dashboards reporting school safety data. Using pre-determined codes drawn from a framework of visualization rhetoric, dashboard characteristics were described and analyzed. Analysis…
Descriptors: School Safety, Data, Visual Aids, State Agencies
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Williams, Sarah C.; Foster, Anita K. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2011
Discovery tools are the next phase of library search systems. Illinois State University's Milner Library implemented EBSCO Discovery Service in August 2010. The authors conducted usability studies on the system in the fall of 2010. The aims of the study were twofold: first, to determine how Milner users set about using the system in order to…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Usability, Navigation (Information Systems), Web Sites
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Harley, Bruce L.; Knobloch, Patricia J. – Government Publications Review, 1991
Describes a project at Stanford University Library that was initiated to enhance user access to government documents collections by developing a prototype natural language computer-based aid. The development of an expert system, Government Documents Reference Aid (GDRA), is explained, and the application of expert systems in libraries is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Appropriate Technology, College Libraries, Comparative Analysis