This paper report the results of an empirical study which was carried out to investigate the effect of testing environment on the results of usability evaluation process. The study involved 54 school children from India in the age range of 11-13 years. Children were asked to perform books searching tasks with International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL). Children’s activities with ICDL were ...

The problems that illiteracy poses in accessing information are gaining attention from the research community. Issues currently being explored include developing an understanding of the barriers to information acquisition experienced by different groups of illiterate information seekers; creating technology, such as software interfaces, that support illiterate users effectively; and tailoring c...

Nowadays, the construction and application of digital library leads a new era of the way people obtain knowledge and information, and promotes the academic exchanges and social progress. Digital library, however, also involves great risk; hacker attacks become the main threat of the information security of digital library, and may probably cause the loss and damage of the information resources ...

In recent years archaeologists have been using a variety of computing technology to speed up research and make information much easier to access, manipulate, and analyze. I propose a Digital Library framework that will assist nautical archaeologists in their research work, enhancing the dissemination of archaeological findings and seafaring related information to the general public. In this ess...

The Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (German National Library of Medicine) is the National Library and Service Institution for medical libraries and the scientific medical community in Germany. The library was founded in 1970 (with predecessors back to 1910); its holdings amount to more than 1.200.000 volumes including 9.000 current journals. The collections include all subject areas in m...

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 Scenarios: Relates to the process where the user queries his need and related information on the search query is provided to the user based upon his current query term and his profile. Explicit feedback is a scenario where the user provides input of his preferences to the recommender. Implicit feedback is a scenario where the system gathers information about user in an implicit manner through...

This paper based on a study visit made in May 1999, generously sponsored by the VALA Travel Scholarship program, reports on developmental projects that seek to aid library users to efficiently discover and locate information resources. In the current information landscape, where resources exist in a variety of formats, the goal is to develop systems that seamlessly integrate the globally distri...

Phase 2 of a 2-phase project funded by the NSFNational Science Digital Library Project observed undergraduate and graduate engineering, chemistry, and physics students and faculty while they searched the ScienceDirect e-journals system for scholarly science journal articles for simulated class-related assignments. Think-aloud protocol was used to capture affective and cognitive state informatio...

We consider ideas for a tighter integration of searching a digital library while writing a paper. A prototype system based on web services is described which allows us to explore the design space of ambient search tools to support and inspire the writing process.