EVALUATION OF E-RESOURCES IN MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A USER-CENTRED APPROACH TOWARDS COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

Usability evaluation and PPGIS: towards a user-centred design approach

Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) is a field of research that, among other things, focuses on the use of GIS by non-experts and occasional users. These users tend to have a diverse range of computer literacy, world views, cultural backgrounds and knowledge. These aspects require that the systems used within PPGIS are accessible and easy to use. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the related us...

Interaction Pool: Towards a user-centred test collection

The advance of evaluation methodology is essential for the development of interactive systems that are based on the understanding of information seeking behaviour. This position paper presents a (rough) design of a community-based approach called the interaction pool, a repository of annotated interaction data that can be harnessed and shared by a research community interested in information se...

The Materials-centred Approach to Public Library Collection Development: A Defense

User-centred Library Web Sites: Usability Evaluation Methods

User tagging of library resources: Towards a framework for system evaluation

Although user tagging of library resources shows substantial promise as a means of improving the quality of users’ access to those resources, several important questions about the level and nature of the warrant for basing retrieval tools on user tagging are yet to receive full consideration by library practitioners and researchers. Among these is the simple evaluative question: What, specifica...