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Haber, Natalie; Shelton, Steven; Chassaing, William – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2018
User experience is immeasurably important for your patrons as they access your Web site. This article presents tips and strategies for testing user experience, suggests a number of different popular technologies and tools that are used in the UX field, and lays out a plan for sharing and utilizing data to make improvements on your Web site. It is…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Users (Information), Web Sites, Library Services
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Hershkovitz, Arnon – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2015
Data-driven instruction is still a huge scope and has many shades. One promising way of adding learning analytics to traditional teaching is to offer teachers accessible, data-driven information, either in a dashboard style or with a UI with which they could perform their own analysis on student data (e.g., Ben-Naim, Bain, & Marcus, 2009;…
Descriptors: Data Use, Learning Analytics, Computer Interfaces, Reflection
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Power, June L. – Journal of Access Services, 2012
It's been well documented in a number of articles regarding the contemporary library patron that with the rise in mobile computing and smart phone technology, patrons are looking for fast and easy service from whichever technological avenue they are using to access library services. Libraries are responding with increasing numbers of online…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Users (Information), Synchronous Communication
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Baranova, Polina; Morrison, Sue; Mutton, Jean – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2011
The student experience in higher education is firmly placed at the top of the strategic agenda for the majority of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK at present. In the current climate of public cuts, universities increasingly have to strike a delicate balance between cost efficiencies and delivery of the high-quality university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Student Experience, Learning Experience
Lim, Kenneth Y. T.; Chen, Der-Thanq; Hung, David – Educational Technology, 2010
This article describes some of the key affordances for learning of the generic class of handheld computers known variously as smartphones, palmtops, and thumbtops--using the Apple iPhone 3G as one of the most mature exemplars of this class--based on the authors' experiences with and reflections about the device over a period of a year. An argument…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Users (Information), Handheld Devices, Computers
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Amershi, Saleema; Conati, Cristina – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2009
In this paper, we present a data-based user modeling framework that uses both unsupervised and supervised classification to build student models for exploratory learning environments. We apply the framework to build student models for two different learning environments and using two different data sources (logged interface and eye-tracking data).…
Descriptors: Supervision, Classification, Models, Educational Environment
Soergel, Dagobert – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Reports on papers presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology) for the Special Interest Group in Classification Research (SIG/CR). Topics include types of knowledge; developing user-oriented classifications, including domain analysis; classification in the user interface; and automatic…
Descriptors: Automation, Classification, Computer Interfaces, Knowledge Representation
Maly, Kurt; Nelson, Michael L.; Zubair, Mohammad – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Discusses digital libraries, interoperability, and interfaces to access them, and proposes one universal protocol for communication for simple archives based on the hypertext transfer protocol (http). Describes the creation of a special class of digital objects called buckets, archives based on a NASA collection, and a set of digital library…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Interfaces, Electronic Libraries, Hypermedia
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Teague-Rector, Susan; Ghaphery, Jimmy – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
Academic libraries customize, support, and provide access to myriad information systems, each with complex graphical user interfaces. The number of possible information entry points on an academic library Web site is both daunting to the end-user and consistently challenging to library Web site designers. Faced with the challenges inherent in…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Information Systems, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
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Brajnik, Giorgio; Mizzaro, Stefano; Tasso, Carlo; Venuti, Fabio – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Discussion of search strategy in information retrieval by end users focuses on the role played by strategic reasoning and design principles for user interfaces. Highlights include strategic help based on collaborative coaching; a conceptual model for strategic help; and a prototype knowledge-based system named FIRE. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Cooperation, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval
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Toms, Elaine G. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Discussion of information architecture focuses on a model of information interaction that bridges the gap between human and computer and between information behavior and information retrieval. Illustrates how the process of information interaction is affected by the user, the system, and the content. (Contains 93 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Systems
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Jarvelin, Kalervo; Ingwersen, Peter; Niemi, Timo – Journal of Documentation, 2000
Presents a user-oriented interface for generalized informetric analysis and demonstrates how informetric calculations can be specified through advanced data modeling techniques. Topics include bibliographic data; online information retrieval systems; citation networks; query interface; impact factors; data restructuring; and multi-level…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citation Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Data Processing
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Roy, Marie Christine; Dewitt, Olivier; Aubert, Benoit A. – Internet Research, 2001
Describes a study where 66 subjects were asked to perform some predefined book purchasing task in a series of Web sites with varying interface quality. A strong relationship between interface quality and trust was found and some components of user interface quality were more important than others. Discusses implications for Web site design.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Purchasing, Retailing
Senn, Gary J.; Smyth, Thomas J. C. – 1995
Because of the graphical interface and "openness" of the operating system, Macintosh computers are susceptible to undesirable changes by the user. This presentation discusses the advantages and disadvantages of software packages that offer protection for the Macintosh system. The two basic forms of software security packages include a…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Security, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design
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Kemnitzer, Ronald B. – Technology Teacher, 2005
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the process in information about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on users through the planning, design and development of a product. Establishing a User Profile is certainly a key element in user-centered design. For many products, such as an automobile, a…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Interfaces, Profiles, Task Analysis
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