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Sugar, William A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Examines the implications of incorporating user-centered design within information systems design practices. Highlights include a definition of user-centered design based on human-computer interface; questions asked about users, including outcome, process, and task variables; and three criteria for when to use this approach in information systems…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Criteria, Information Systems, Man Machine Systems
Newby, Gregory B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Presents a theoretical framework for navigation in information retrieval systems and describes a prototype retrieval system that was developed to investigate navigation. The use of a visual interface in a spatial representation scheme is described, and results of a user-based evaluation of the system are reported. User questionnaires are appended.…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer System Design, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
Dillon, Andrew – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Discussion of information system design proposes the artifact as theory perspective and suggests that information system design is best tackled by user-centered theories and methods. Topics include the software development process, human-computer interaction, and implications for information science. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Information Science, Information Systems
Newby, Gregory B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Introduces navigation as a central concept for information retrieval and for information systems in general. The evolution of information systems is described; navigability as an aid to improve relevance is discussed; and a system under development that attempts to facilitate navigation for information retrieval is described. (31 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Heidorn, P. Bryan – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Describes a graphic modeling, natural language processing system, VerbalImage, which mimics features of human shape reasoning. Subjects read the same text description and were able to recognize the image generated by the computer from among a series of other computer-generated images. Performance on task was as good as for a control group…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Man Machine Systems
Sonnenwald, Diane H.; Lievrouw, Leah A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discussion of communication between designers and users of information systems focuses on a review of seven participatory design techniques in terms of the communication dimensions found in the Lievrouw and Finn communication systems model. Implications for the development of more effective and appropriate design models and methods are suggested.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Software, Computer System Design, Designers
Troll, Denise A.; Richards, Barbara G. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Describes the design and development of the Mercury Electronic Library Project at Carnegie Mellon University that resulted in a library information system that provides access to the library's online catalog as well as to other databases. The distributed architecture of the system is explained, and future plans are discussed. (two references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Detlor, Brian – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Proposes a user-centered framework for intranet design based on an understanding of people, their typical problems, information behaviors, and situated contexts. Argues that by adopting such an approach, intranets can be designed which facilitate organizational information access and use. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Design Preferences
Buckland, Michael K.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Describes the design of a prototype adaptive online catalog that was implemented as a transparent workstation-based front end system to MELVYL, the online catalog for the University of California libraries. Problems with searching bibliographic retrieval systems are reviewed, including irrelevant retrievals and the inexperience of most users.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Computer System Design, Higher Education
Wildemuth, Barbara M.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discussion of search strategy formulation focuses on a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that analyzed how medical students developed and revised search strategies for microbiology database searches. Implications for future research on search behavior, for system interface design, and for end user training are suggested. (16…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education, Man Machine Systems
Lankes, R. David – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Presents the Virtual Reference Desk project, its activities, and a proposed information system architecture to build a human intermediated network of expertise and experience. The project seeks to study, support, and improve current K-12 digital reference services, as well as to build a foundation for a national cooperative digital reference…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design
