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6-D, A Process Framework for the Design and Development of Web-based Systems.
Christian, Phillip – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Explores how the 6-D framework can form the core of a comprehensive systemic strategy and help provide a supporting structure for more robust design and development while allowing organizations to support whatever methods and models best suit their purpose. 6-D stands for the phases of Web design and development: Discovery, Definition, Design,…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Design Requirements, Development, Information Systems
User Centric Design and Implementation of a Digital Historic Costume Collection.
Martin, Kathi; Lin, Xia; Lunin, Lois – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Reports on the human factors considered in the design and implementation of a digital museum for historic costume. Starting with an elicitation and analysis of the qualitative and functional needs of its users, an evolutionary prototype was developed for a model of digital archiving that delivers a gratifying Web experience, visually and…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer System Design, Database Design, Design Preferences
Developing Multilingual Academic Web Sites: A Study of Chinese University Web Design for the Chinese and the English Versions.
Tang, Rong – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Investigates the design differences between Chinese and English language versions of Web sites based on evidence gathered from Chinese academic Web sites. Through surveying and interviewing university Webmasters from Mainland China and Taiwan, this study seeks to gain real-life insights into the design environment of multilingual Web development.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Computer System Design, English
Development of a Text Summarization System Using Verb-based Sentence Patterns.
Choe, In-Sook; Chung, Young-Mee – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Presents a text summarization system and examines its validity by comparing automatically generated summaries with human-generated ones. Examines the accuracy of the system by evaluating the representativeness of cue verbs and basic sentence patterns, as well as the essential information in a summary. Also analyzes syntactic and semantic errors of…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Electronic Text, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval
Lessons from Reading E-News for Browsing the Web: The Roles of Genre and Task.
Shepherd, M.; Watters, Carolyn; Kaushik, Raj – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Results from user studies support the importance of genre and task in interface design and effectiveness of filtering of electronic news. Preliminary results from a study on effectiveness of predicting interesting Web pages based on the content of previously visited pages suggest a great similarity between reading electronic news and browsing the…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Seeking, Information Systems
Building a Global Corporate Library Portal: Usability Results and Design Implications.
Hirsh, Sandra – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Usability tests were conducted on different corporate library Web sites, within the same company but based in three different countries, as part of efforts to build a global library portal site for a large high tech company. Results addressed factors influencing the success rates on the Web sites, user perceptions of usability of the sites, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Corporate Libraries
Children as Designers of Web Portals.
Large, Andrew; Beheshti, Jamshid; Nesset, Valerie; Bowler, Leanne – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Describes the process undertaken by a design team comprising both elementary school students and researchers to design a Web portal intended for use by children. The approach adopted by the team was based upon several design theories related to usability studies: contextual inquiry, participatory design, and cooperative inquiry. Presents…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Cooperative Programs
Search Interface Design Using Faceted Indexing for Web Resources.
Devadason, Francis; Intaraksa, Neelawat; Patamawongjariya, Pornprapa; Desai, Kavita – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Describes an experimental system designed to organize and provide access to Web documents using a faceted pre-coordinate indexing system based on the Deep Structure Indexing System (DSIS) derived from POPSI (Postulate based Permuted Subject Indexing) of Bhattacharyya, and the facet analysis and chain indexing system of Ranganathan. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design
Draw and Tell: Children as Designers of Web Interfaces.
Bilal, Dania – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Using a participatory approach, 11 middle school children created paper prototypes for Web search engines. The prototypes were analyzed in relation to content-related spaces, specific spaces, general spaces, instruction spaces, and other spaces. Children's comments about the purposes of the interfaces were analyzed in terms of functionality and…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Design Preferences