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>3.3.co;2-8

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“…The derived set of interaction and information object properties has been reported and discussed in detail in an earlier work [1]. 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: 89%

“…This section provides a brief description of PROPIE. 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%

“…A detailed description of the scenarios has been documented in an earlier work [8] and the 71 mini-scenarios used in the evaluations can be found at http://islab.sas. ntu.edu.sg:8000/islab/research/chernli/.…”

Section: Propie For Interacting With E-journalsa Summary Of the Task Scenariosmentioning

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

Liew

Foo

Chennupati

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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Section: Research Aims and Objectivesmentioning

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Section: The Proposed Information Environment (Propie)mentioning

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

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Foo

Chennupati

2001

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“…Future user interfaces are likely to be more interactive -moving towards the creation of personal workspaces that are endowed with rich features to create more integrated environments to support various user information seeking and use tasks. A useful study is PROPIE -a mock-up novel environment developed to evaluate users' perception to enhanced interaction and value-adding of electronic documents (Liew, Foo, Chennupati, 2000, 2001a, 2001b. The environment contains workspaces that operate independently but yet in a closely coordinated manner with each other to allow users to interact with document collections through various forms of interaction and visualization.…”

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A Snapshot of Digital Library Development

Foo

Theng

2004

Design and Usability of Digital Libraries

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This chapter highlights selective key issues and assesses the current situation of digital library development in the Asia Pacific under the broad categories of design architecture and systems, implementation issues and challenges, use and impact, and users and usability. Emphasis on cross-cultural and cross-lingual research would especially be beneficial to address the diversity and richness of the heritage, cultures and languages of this region. Nonetheless, a fundamental digital divide problem poses the greatest challenge as almost 70% of the population of the countries of Asia Pacific has little or no connectivity to the digital world. Concerted international collaborative efforts are much needed, not only to push ahead with the various aspects of the digital library research agenda and realize the global digital library vision of the future, but to derive novel solutions to eliminate or close the gap of digital divide across various parts of the world.

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“…Rather than emphasizing simplicity, the focus is on the development of tools that allow for greater interactivity and exploit some of the unique capabilities of digital text. Studies of electronic journal use [1, 26–28] note the value of advanced features such as integrated information retrieval of related resources; the ability to create hypertext links to related passages in other journal articles; the ability to take notes and make annotations within articles; and different article views based on genre-based structural components, for example, showing only the ‘Results’ section. Kopak and Chiang [28] examined the use of both annotation and linking tools within the Open Journal Systems, with the intention of having these Reading Tools used to actively create meaning connections both within and between texts in a collection of journal articles.…”

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The effects of textual environment on reading comprehension: Implications for searching as learning

Freund

Kopak

O'Brien

2016

Journal of Information Science

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This paper reports on a study of digital reading that investigates the effects of different textual environments on information interaction and comprehension outcomes. While there is a large body of literature that compares print and digital reading, research that compares differently designed digital reading environments is limited. Such work can inform the design of information and search systems intended to support learning. This study investigated the effects of two design dimensions: Text Presentation (Plain Text vs In-Context) and Interactivity (availability of Reading Tools). Results show that the simplest textual environment (Plain Text presentation with no Interactivity) was associated with the highest comprehension outcomes, but that Interactivity mitigated the negative effects of texts presented In-Context. Both time spent reading and certain reading behaviours varied to some extent by condition and may be associated with comprehension; however, personal characteristics of the readers played little to no role in determining outcomes.

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

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

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