Use of a digital work environment prototype to create a user-centered university digital library

Meyyappan, N.; Chowdhury, Gobinda; Foo, Schubert

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“…In the digital library domain, researchers have tried to design user-centered systems that helped users retrieve relevant documents. One such work is the Digital Work Environment library [17] which points users of a university digital library to relevant documents based on their user categories and tasks. Another example uses a participatory design approach through techniques like observations and low-tech prototyping to develop a user-centered children's digital library called SearchKids [9].…”

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An Exploratory Factor Analytic Approach to Understand Design Features for Academic Learning Environments

Lee

Theng

Goh

et al. 2006

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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Subjective relevance (SR) is defined as usefulness of documents for tasks. Using digital libraries as examples of IR systems, this paper enhances objective relevance and tackles its limitations by conducting a quantitative study to understand students' perceptions of features for supporting evaluations of subjective relevance of documents. Data was analyzed using factor analysis to identify groups of features that supported students' document evaluations during IR interaction stages to provide design implications for an IR interface supporting students' evaluations of documents. Findings seemed to suggest an implied order of importance amongst groups of features for each interaction stage. The paper concludes by discussing groups of features, its implied order of importance, and support for information seeking activities to provide design implications for IR interfaces supporting SR for academic research.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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An Exploratory Factor Analytic Approach to Understand Design Features for Academic Learning Environments

Lee

Theng

Goh

et al. 2006

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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“…It also varies from school to school and division to division in the academic environment. An analysis of various categories of users and their tasks was discussed in detail in our earlier publications (Meyyappan et al, 2000b(Meyyappan et al, , 2001a.…”

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“…The system consists of a user interface (UI) module linked to the task maintenance, resource maintenance, information resource organisation, statistics and user authentication and management modules for carrying out the various functions of DWE. Details of the various components of DWE and their functions have been discussed in earlier papers (Meyyappan et al, 2000b(Meyyappan et al, , 2001a. JDOC 60,4…”

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“…The Division of Information Studies (DIS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, was chosen as a test case to build a prototype for this research. Details of the design and architecture of DWE have appeared elsewhere (Meyyappan et al, 2000b(Meyyappan et al, , 2001a. However, we have provided a brief overview of DWE later in this paper in order to facilitate our discussion of its evaluation.…”

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Design and evaluation of a task‐based digital library for the academic community

Meyyappan

Foo

Chowdhury

2004

Journal of Documentation

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The paper discusses the design, development and evaluation of a task-based digital library, the Digital Work Environment (DWE), for the academic community of higher education institutions (HEI) with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a test case. Three different information organisation approaches (alphabetical, subject category and task-based) were used to organise the wide range of heterogeneous information resources that were interfaced to DWE. A user evaluation study using a series of task scenarios was carried out to gauge the effectiveness and usefulness of DWE and these information organisation approaches. The time taken by respondents to identify and access the relevant information resources for individual tasks was also measured. The findings show that the task-based approach took the least time in identifying information resources. Regression analysis of information resource location time with gender, age, computer experience and digital resource experience of the participants are also reported.

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“…they are tasks associated with meeting real work/business requirements rather than operating the existing systems. Some previous research by Meyyappan et al (2001aMeyyappan et al ( , b, 2004 discussed the concept of providing a one-stop information access point for both internal and external information accessed by users of the academic community. Meyyappan's group proposed the DWE system containing a task module together with a task-based interface to allow the user to choose a task (from a list of tasks usually performed by him/her), and the system would then automatically lead the user to the relevant information resources.…”

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Implementing a multi-tiered framework for building NDLTD-Taiwan

Chiang

Wang²,

Lin³

2014

Library Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the multi-tiered framework supported by the NDLTD-Taiwan systems to achieve the collaboration and cooperation with universities and colleges in building electronic theses collection in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the outcomes of multi-tiered framework, its user roles, tasks, and thesis-specific workflow, as well as the function for simulating user roles. Findings – The framework is the result of supporting both the two-tiered and the three-tiered frameworks on the NDLTD-Taiwan systems platform. The design guidelines emerged out of the outcomes of task analysis. Practical implications – The multi-tiered design not only accommodates graduation procedures for member universities and colleges, but also supports bibliographic control and collections building. Originality/value – The paper shows that the multi-tiered design, which emerged out of the existing theses processes of member institutions, is inclusive. The framework allows member universities and colleges to choose an appropriate framework, either two-tiered or three-tiered, for managing their e-theses processes. In addition, role simulation allows the NCL administrator to reproduce problems encountered by the users to help troubleshooting.

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Use of a digital work environment prototype to create a user-centered university digital library

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An Exploratory Factor Analytic Approach to Understand Design Features for Academic Learning Environments

An Exploratory Factor Analytic Approach to Understand Design Features for Academic Learning Environments

Design and evaluation of a task‐based digital library for the academic community

Implementing a multi-tiered framework for building NDLTD-Taiwan

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