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Steil, Toni L. – 1985
A study was devised, using 20 undergraduate students chosen at random from an introductory psychology course, to measure the teaching effectiveness of two computer tutorials oriented to the spreadsheet portion of Appleworks. The first tutorial provided a data disk with pre-entered data for the user to manipulate, but no error correction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Strategies, Higher Education
User Centered System Design: Papers for the CHI '83 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems.
California Univ., San Diego. Center for Human Information Processing. – 1983
Four papers from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Project on Human-Computer Interfaces are presented in this report. "Evaluation and Analysis of User's Activity Organization," by Liam Bannon, Allen Cypher, Steven Greenspan, and Melissa Monty, analyzes the activities performed by users of computer systems, develops a…
Descriptors: Activities, Computer Programs, Design Requirements, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSewell, Winifred; Teitelbaum, Sandra – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Investigation of end-user searching at National Library of Medicine reveals that volume of searching is related to convenient placement of terminal; slightly fewer than half of potential searchers search for themselves; practices of pharmacists and pathologists do not differ in important ways; end-user searchers perform simple searches. (86…
Descriptors: Databases, Interviews, Library Surveys, Man Machine Systems
Peer reviewedMatthews, Joseph R.; Lawrence, Gary S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1984
Reports on the Online Catalog Public Access Project, a survey of users and nonusers in 31 U.S. libraries conducted for the Council on Library Resources. Characteristics of users, tasks, library setting, and system interface that affect user satisfaction are identified. A 25-item bibliography and user questionnaire are appended. (7 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
Hu, Chengren – 1988
This paper describes a study that was undertaken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to compare the databases selected by 75 inexperienced student online searchers aided by an existing gateway system--INFOMASTER, a version of EASYNET--with databases selected manually by four experienced searchers who were reference librarians from…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Rosenfeld, Pilar N. – 1985
This investigation of the use of database management systems (DBMS) in a research environment used the Rand Corporation as a case study. After a general introduction in section 1, eight sections present the major components of the study. Section 2 contains an overview of DBMS terminology and concepts, followed in section 3 by a general dsecription…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Case Studies, Computer Software, Data Collection
