A proposed integrated environment for enhanced user interaction and value-adding of electronic documents: An empirical evaluation

Liew, Chern Li; Foo, Schubert; Chennupati, K.R.

doi:10.1002/1532-2890(2000)52:1<22::aid-asi1056>3.0.co;2-h

“…The PROPIE evaluation comprises three tiers of evaluation and tiers 1 and 2 results have been reported [2,3]. In this paper, we consolidate all the evaluation results and outline the major findings of the research.…”

Section: Research Aims and Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…A more detailed description of the conceptual design of the environment and the various tools and features available is reported in an earlier work [8]. PROPIE is an integrated and unifying environment comprising multiple workspaces.…”

Section: The Proposed Information Environment (Propie)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a new generation of information environment for the use of e-documents

Liew

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Foo

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Chennupati

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2001

Journal of Information Science

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This research examines how electronic documents (e-documents) such as electronic journals (e-journals) could be enhanced in the electronic environment to make them more valuable to end-users. In particular, it investigates how a wide range of information searching, analysis and communicating tasks involved in interacting with e-documents could be supported within a single user interface (UI) environment, using e-journals as an example of e-documents. The research tasks completed in the study include the elicitation of user needs and wants, a comprehensive review of latest research developments in electronic publishing and e-documents, derivation of a new set of information and interaction properties that are necessary for a new digital environment to support enhanced access and value-adding to e-documents, and the design of a platform (PROPIE) to demonstrate the use of various features and functionality to support creative and effective e-document use. Providing a suite of novel features and interactive tools that could be flexibly combined, PROPIE allowed users to apply multiple novel ways to intuitively query and navigate information in edocuments. The querying and browsing processes in PROPIE were supported by various interactive and visualization techniques. A set of interface mock-ups was developed to demonstrate the potential of PROPIE in supporting the design of a new-generation of e-journals. Following that, a series of empirical evaluations of various aspects of the environment was conducted using up to a sample of 83 graduate students in three separate tiers to obtain representative users' feedback with regard to interacting with e-journals. This paper reports the major research findings of these evaluations. In particular, it describes the types of features, tools and interaction identified as desirable and required in future e-journals systems. The conclusions were that top-ranked features of e-journals were those not available in print journals and included those of querying, navigation and visualization that contributed to enhanced access, advanced interaction and value-adding contents. 2

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“…This paper reports results from a recent user study of such nature. The study is part of a larger research and experiment (Liew, Foo & Chennupati, 2000a). The objective of this study is to identify the following, using a sample of graduate students:…”

Section: Objective Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results of our ongoing research indicate that e-journals can be further enhanced through a more effective information environment that integrates various novel, useful tools and features to support advanced interactions between users and the various information objects contained within the edocuments (Liew, Foo & Chennupati, 2000a, 2000bLiew & Foo, 1999).…”

Section: Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

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A study of graduate student end‐users’ use and perception of electronic journals

Liew

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Foo

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,

Chennupati

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2000

Online Information Review

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The growth and diversity of electronic journals (e-journals) in the past five years had led many to predict the extinction of print journals and that a new paradigm is sweeping scholarship. Some others however, believe that future electronic scholarly journals will be different from their print antecedents and that both will fill a different niche, and will be necessary for the growth of knowledge. This paper considers the future of e-journals in the light of the use and perception of graduate student end-users, and their expectations of future e-journals. A segment of the results from a recent user study that present significant implications for the design of future e-journals are reported. The results show a significantly high acceptance of e-journals by this category of users. Generally, e-journals are expected to be different from print journals, with novel forms of functionality not possible in their print counterparts.

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Towards a new generation of information environment for the use of e-documents

Liew

¹

,

Foo

²

,

Chennupati

³

2001

Journal of Information Science

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This research examines how electronic documents (e-documents) such as electronic journals (e-journals) could be enhanced in the electronic environment to make them more valuable to end-users. In particular, it investigates how a wide range of information searching, analysis and communicating tasks involved in interacting with e-documents could be supported within a single user interface (UI) environment, using e-journals as an example of e-documents. The research tasks completed in the study include the elicitation of user needs and wants, a comprehensive review of latest research developments in electronic publishing and e-documents, derivation of a new set of information and interaction properties that are necessary for a new digital environment to support enhanced access and value-adding to e-documents, and the design of a platform (PROPIE) to demonstrate the use of various features and functionality to support creative and effective e-document use. Providing a suite of novel features and interactive tools that could be flexibly combined, PROPIE allowed users to apply multiple novel ways to intuitively query and navigate information in edocuments. The querying and browsing processes in PROPIE were supported by various interactive and visualization techniques. A set of interface mock-ups was developed to demonstrate the potential of PROPIE in supporting the design of a new-generation of e-journals. Following that, a series of empirical evaluations of various aspects of the environment was conducted using up to a sample of 83 graduate students in three separate tiers to obtain representative users' feedback with regard to interacting with e-journals. This paper reports the major research findings of these evaluations. In particular, it describes the types of features, tools and interaction identified as desirable and required in future e-journals systems. The conclusions were that top-ranked features of e-journals were those not available in print journals and included those of querying, navigation and visualization that contributed to enhanced access, advanced interaction and value-adding contents. 2

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A proposed integrated environment for enhanced user interaction and value-adding of electronic documents: An empirical evaluation

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