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Komlodi, Anita; Soergel, Dagobert – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Considers search histories and their role in human information seeking and identifies potential application areas for history information to enhance information-seeking user interfaces. Reports results related to supporting mental model development and task integration, based on a study of legal information seeking. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Information Seeking, Information Systems, Lawyers
Bilal, Dania; Barry, Jeff; Penniman, W. David – Library Journal, 1999
Reviews automated-systems activities in libraries during the past year and profiles major vendors. Topics include new partnership arrangements driven by competition; library-systems revenues; Y2K issues; Windows-based interfaces; consulting; outsourcing; development trends; global system sales; and sales by type of library. (LRW)
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Interfaces, Consultants, Income

Hamilton, Anne – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Discusses the use of interface metaphors in computer system design. Describes empirical research that shows users can experience cognitive dissonance with metaphors and suggests that the concept of a logical analogue rather than that of a metaphor should guide system designers. (Contains 66 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Dissonance, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Logic

Tovey, Janice – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1996
Extends the discussion of visual rhetoric to the writing spaces and iconic representations of computer interfaces. Examines interfaces of a word-processing and a page layout program for desktop publishing, revealing the visual nature of the interface. Opines that the visual writing space encourages and fosters a writer's consideration of options…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Desktop Publishing, Layout (Publications), Rhetoric

Liew, Chern Li; Foo, Schubert; Chennupati, K. R. – Journal of Information Science, 2001
Examines how electronic documents, particularly electronic journals, could be enhanced to make them more valuable to end-users. Describes the development of PROPIE (Proposed Information Environment) that demonstrated the potential to support various interaction needs and discusses the results of an empirical evaluation of PROPIE. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Electronic Journals, Evaluation Methods, User Needs (Information)
Head, Alison J. – Online, 1999
Discusses usability as an interface design concept to improve information retrieval on the World Wide Web. Highlights include criteria for a usable Web site; usability testing; usability resources on the Web; and a sidebar that gives an example of usability testing by Hewlett-Packard. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Criteria, Information Retrieval, Testing

Byrd, Donald; Crawford, Tim – Information Processing & Management, 2002
Considers some of the most fundamental problems in music information retrieval, challenging the common assumption that searching on pitch alone is likely to be satisfactory for all purposes. Discusses special issues related to polyphonic music, user-interface issues, and the notion of relevance for music information retrieval. (Contains 52…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Music, Problems
Roberts, Gary – Computers in Libraries, 2005
This article discusses the pros and cons of open source software, such as Linux. It asserts that despite the technical difficulties of installing and maintaining this type of software, ultimately it is helpful in terms of knowledge acquisition and as a beneficial investment librarians can make in themselves, their libraries, and their patrons.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Computers, Computer Software, Computer Interfaces

Lee, Doris; Chamers, Terri; Ely, Tim – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2005
Web-based training, WBT, is a relatively new application of instructional design in any organization. Advances in technology may tempt WBT designers to use the fastest or the latest technological features possible, but if content and intent are obscured and instructional effectiveness sacrificed, the WBT becomes another neglected eye-catching, yet…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Internet, Evaluation, Corporations
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
Bordac, Sarah; Rainwater, Jean – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
This article presents a case study in user-centered design that explores the needs and preferences of undergraduate users. An analysis of LibQual+ and other user surveys, interviews with public service staff, and a formal American with Disabilities Act accessibility review served as the basis for planning a redesign of the Brown University…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Testing, Information Systems, Libraries
Foertsch, Julie; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2008
Julie Foertsch and Morton Ann Gernsbacher present the results of an evaluation of an online undergraduate course in psychology that adheres to the seven widely accepted principles of effective online teaching and suggests an eighth principle: using the unique benefits and constraints of online communication to prompt critical thinking about…
Descriptors: Cues, Autism, Formative Evaluation, Online Courses
Wang, Fu Lee, Ed.; Fong, Joseph, Ed.; Kwan, Reggie, Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
Hybrid learning is now the single-greatest trend in education today due to the numerous educational advantages when both traditional classroom learning and e-learning are implemented collectively. This handbook collects emerging research and pedagogies related to the convergence of teaching and learning methods. This significant "Handbook of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Programming Languages
Sasaki, Shiori; Watagoshi, Kiku; Takano, Kosuke; Hirashima, Kazuo; Kiyoki, Yasushi – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of music courseware that features a music search system that uses impression keywords. The paper applies the courseware to "Kansei" (sensibility) development for elementary and junior high school students. The objectives of this courseware are to cultivate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2006
Those who work in libraries focus much of their energies on providing access to information, and major changes seen in the last decade have shown the need to be flexible in the ways that librarians approach content delivery. Library users span all the generations of information distribution mechanisms. Some prefer to receive information in their…
Descriptors: Libraries, Web Sites, Access to Information, User Needs (Information)