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Measuring User Performance during Interactions with Digital Video Collections.
Yang, Meng; Wildemuth, Barbara M.; Marchionini, Gary; Wilkens, Todd; Geisler, Gary; Hughes, Anthony; Gruss, Richard; Webster, Curtis – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Proposes two general classes of user tasks-recognition tasks and tasks requiring inference-for which performance measures were developed. The measures include graphical object recognition, textual object recognition, action recognition, free-text gist determination, multiple-choice gist determination and visual gist determination. Results from two…
Descriptors: Interaction, Library Collections, Measurement Techniques, Performance
The Role of Narrative in Understanding Digital Video: An Exploratory Analysis.
Wilkens, Todd; Hughes, Anthony; Wildemuth, Barbara M.; Marchionini, Gary – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Outlines the basic principles and research supporting the concept of narrative intelligence and its applicability to the ways in which people make sense of digital video. Explores relevant theory and research in sense-making, surrogates, narrative, and narrative intelligence and presents preliminary results of two research studies. Results have…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Indexing, Information Technology, Use Studies
An Empirically Grounded Model of the Adoption of Intellectual Technologies.
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Wildemuth, Barbara M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Data on adoption of 43 user-developed computing applications in 3 large corporations were analyzed to develop an empirically grounded model of the adoption process for intellectual technologies. A five-stage model consisting of Resource Acquisition, Application Development, Adoption/Renewal, Routinization/Enhancement, and External Adoption was…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Business, Computer Oriented Programs, Models
Search Moves Made by Novice End Users.
Wildemuth, Barbara M.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Describes a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that analyzed the transaction logs of medical students' searches of a factual database to determine the overall frequency of search moves, the interaction between the problem statement and students' search strategies, the search moves selected, and the tactics used by students.…
Descriptors: Databases, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Students
Effective Methods for Studying Information Seeking and Use. Introduction and Overview.
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Wildemuth, Barbara M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
In conjunction with the American Society for Information Science and Technology's (ASIST) annual meeting in fall 2001, the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) sponsored a research symposium on "Effective Methods for Studying Information Seeking and Use." This article briefly reviews six articles presented at the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Seeking
The "Known" in Known-Item Searches: Empirical Support for User-Centered Design.
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Wildemuth, Barbara M.; O'Neill, Ann L. – College & Research Libraries, 1995
User-centered design of catalog records requires the study of user behaviors and cognition related to interaction with the catalog. During 3 phases of a pilot study, 103 catalog users described 386 searches; searchers generally knew the title, publication date, page numbers, and/or the author. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bibliographic Records, Case Studies, Design Requirements
A Detailed Analysis of End-User Search Behaviors.
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