... then was overlaid on top of Google Maps. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Information retrieval User interfaces Data analysis Computer applications Geographic information systems Information searches Students often come to a library’s reference desk to ask for directions...

.../approach – The authors experimentally compared MBRS with the Google search engine. MBRS first gathers reviews from online sources, such as bookstores and blogs. It reduces information overload through an advanced filtering and sorting algorithm and by providing a uniform user interface. MBRS accommodates...

... Electronic books Software development User interfaces Redesign It is almost 30 years since digital reading was developed. With the advancement of information technology (IT), people's reading activity gradually transferred from paper-based reading to digital reading. Recently, e-books have gone...

... Group Publishing Limited 2014 User interfaces Personalization Human computer interaction User-centered design Student-centered library User experience design While academic libraries have previously offered customizable web sites, adaptive web site personalization through...

... standardised, design could lead to greater levels of engagement and utility. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Public libraries Communities User interfaces Portals The sample population was purposefully limited to CI portals servicing Australian communities, located by limiting...

... of screen configuration. User interfaces Information foraging Online document presentation environment Readability applications Skimming comprehension Software This study is a first step in beginning to determine if interface design, as it relates to online document presentation, can...

... at a billboard. All those who pass by see the same message. In contrast, different technology approaches to personalization may dynamically organize content that transparently or explicitly adapts to the needs of the user. Some personalization, typically in terms of changing the user interface, is selected...

... reading service and help service providers better understand users' demands. Also it may provide some useful information for further research in mobile reading. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Electronic books Mobile reading User behaviour Educational level China Students User...

.... This method is well‐proven for scaling variants of user interface designs. The paper demonstrates how the method can be applied to input forms, for example search masks of a library catalogue. Findings The investigation shows that paired comparison is well applicable for interfaces used in library systems...

... article “Next generation catalogs: what do they do and why should we care?” Emanuel (2009) characterizes the “nextgen” catalog as having a simpler user interface screen, pulling data from outside sources and including information submitted by users. Overall, Emanuel (2009) says that the next...

... pool consisting of 40 undergraduates, 16 graduate students, 24 library staff, four instructors and 18 faculty members from other departments (p. 8). The Oregon State University Libraries drew two main conclusions regarding the user interface: Known title searching was found to be more effective...

... of human‐computer interaction. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Academic libraries Public libraries Canada Intelligent agents User interfaces Information retrieval As modern libraries continue to evolve in the information age, the problem of how to best access...

... the current state of accessibility common digital resources purchased by libraries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Academic libraries Databases User interfaces Information exchange Communication management 1. Accessible versions of PDF web pages and documents. 2...

... were constructed to organize the individual items as librarians imagined the users would understand them. The resources menu (Figure 3), for example, shows the beginnings of the development of the gateway. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 User interfaces Libraries Information...

... Skylab [5] . As accessible as these data are, however, there is need for deeper, more sophisticated access. Dean James can be contacted at: dean.james@exch.library.tmc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Medical libraries Library users User interfaces Software tools Search...

... a unique account of one library's experience providing an alternative catalog interface using open source software. It also uniquely reports on VuFind hardware and software architectures and some initial testing results and evaluation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 User interfaces...

...Bradford Eden; Detlef Zuehlke; Nancy Thiels Purpose The development time for user interfaces is drastically reduced by today's shorter product life cycles. Generally, at the end of the development phase, there is not enough time or money left to enhance the usability of software. After the user...

.... Kevin Curran can be contacted at: kj.curran@ulster.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Library and information networks Information services User interfaces Libraries were never the primary source of knowledge but they have always played a major role where people of all...

... benefits to the student. Originality/value Librarians need to build their own technological solutions to serve their users when the commercial world is not addressing a real need. Library instruction Information services Distance learning User interfaces The last several years have seen...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Content management Libraries User interfaces This article is a reflective case study of the experiences of a library's systems department in choosing and implementing a content management system (CMS) for the library web site. A reflective case study...