This article explores the aesthetic design criteria that should be incorporated into the information visualization of a taxonomy intended for use by children. Seven elementary-school students were each asked to represent their ideas in drawings for visualizing a taxonomy. Their drawings were analyzed according to six criteria-balance, equilibrium, symmetry, unity, rhythm, and economy-identified as aesthetic measures in previous research. The drawings revealed the presence of all six measures, and three-unity, equilibrium, and rhythm-were found to play an especially important role. It is therefore concluded that an aesthetic design for an information visualization for young users should incorporate all six measures.
This paper investigates the contribution of LIS research to intellectual growth of other disciplines. 209 highly cited papers has been analyzed to reveal the interdisciplinary patterns. Interdisciplinary journals seem more promising in producing highly cited papers.Cet article analyse la contribution de la recherche en BSI en ce qui concerne la croissance intellectuelle d’autres disciplines. 209 articles fréquemment cités ont été analysés afin de révéler les modèles interdisciplinaires. Les périodiques interdisciplinaires semblent plus prometteurs pour la production d’articles couramment cités.
Elementary students use the Web to find information, but can encounter problems with keyword searching. An alternative is to choose terms from a taxonomy (subject directory), but students may then encounter problems in locating a term within the taxonomy. This paper reports on a comparative analysis of a conventional, hierarchically displayed taxonomy with a display of the same taxonomy using information visualization techniques. The evaluations were undertaken by students from grade-six (11 to 12 years’ old) and are part of a larger study on the application of information visualization techniques to interfaces targeted at children.Les élèves du primaire utilisent le Web pour trouver de l'information, mais peuvent avoir des difficultés avec la recherche par mots-clés. Une possibilité serait de choisir des termes à partir d'une taxonomie (liste de sujets), mais dans ces circonstances, ils pourraient avoir de la difficulté à localiser le terme voulu. Cet article présente l'analyse comparative d'une taxonomie hiérarchique conventionnelle et de la même taxonomie présentée en utilisant des techniques de visualisation de l'information. Les évaluations ont été effectuées par des élèves de 6e année (11 et 12 ans) et font partie intégrante d'une étude plus vaste sur l'application de techniques de visualisation de l'information dans la conception d'interfaces ciblant les enfants.
We report on a pilot project to evaluate the usability of the VRLibrary, a desktop virtual reality library containing links to websites, depicted as books. While lack of instructions may have prevented the participants in the pilot study from completing the experimental tasks efficiently, they endorsed enthusiastically the VRLibrary.Résumé : Nous présentons un projet préliminaire conçu pour évaluer l'utilisabilité de la VRLibrary, une bibliothèque de réalité virtuelle de bureau offrant des liens vers des sites web illustrés par des livres. Malgré le manque de directives offertes aux participants au moment de l'étude préliminaire afin d'effectuer efficacement les tâches expérimentales, les participants se montrent enthousiastes envers la VRLibrary.
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