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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
Peer reviewedWildemuth, 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
Peer reviewedWildemuth, 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
Peer reviewedWildemuth, Barbara M. – Library Quarterly, 1993
Discussion of positivist and interpretive approaches to research and postpositivism focuses on two studies that apply interpretive research in different ways: an exploratory study of user-developed computing applications conducted prior to a positivist study and a study of end-user searching behaviors conducted concurrently with a positivist…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Information Science, Medical Education, Models
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
Peer reviewedWildemuth, 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
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
Peer reviewedWildemuth, Barbara M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Describes a study of medical students that was conducted to evaluate measures of performance on factual searches of INQUIRER, a full-text database in microbiology. Measures relating to recall, precision, search term overlap, and efficiency are discussed; reliability and construct validity are considered; and implications for future research are…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Correlation, Efficiency, Evaluation Methods
