A Humanised Interface to an Electronic Library

Benest, Ian; Morgan, G.; Smithurst,

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-70304-0.50143-6

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“…the emulation of real objects in an electronic environment. This approach is important as people have strong mental models of their reality and it is not convenient to impose new models on the basis of the new medium (Benest et al 1987).…”

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“…This approach becomes particularly important when a paper version exists of the same document and readers are already familiar with it. Benest (Benest et al 1987;Benest & Duric 1990) presents examples of the electronic book within more general contexts: the electronic library and the automated office. In these contexts, books are organised in bookshelves.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Hyper‐books and visual‐books in an electronic library

Landoni

Catenazzi

Gibb

1993

The Electronic Library

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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current developments in the area of electronic books and libraries, and to describe an on‐going research project. Following a discussion of the key terminology used in this field, a number of issues will be investigated: what an electronic library is; how this concept has evolved during the last twenty years; what an electronic book is; and the relationship between an electronic library and an electronic book. As a result of our research we have defined a new concept, the Virtual Electronic Library, and its basic components: the hyper‐book and the visual‐book. These are two forms of electronic books which are built from different sources: paper books and electronic texts respectively. The environments in which such electronic books are produced will also be described.

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Section: Features and Motivesmentioning

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Section: Different Interpretations Of Electronic Booksmentioning

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Hyper‐books and visual‐books in an electronic library

Landoni

Catenazzi

Gibb

1993

The Electronic Library

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“…The process of reading and the tasks readers are attempting to complete have a central role in judging whether such a translation is suitable. The cognitive overhead associated with a computer-based environment is an important reason for carefully considering the appropriateness and the method of realising this conversion (Barker et al, 1994;Benest et al, 1987).…”

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Looking for guidelines for the production of electronic textbooks

Landoni

Wilson

Gibb

2001

Online Information Review

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This paper starts by reporting the results of two studies into electronic book production, the Visual Book and the WEB Book. The Visual Book study (Landoni, 1997) explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor for the production of more effective electronic books, while the WEB Book study (Wilson, 1999) took the findings of the Visual Book and applied them to the production of books for publication on the WWW. It was possible to extract from the two experiences a set of recommendations for producing electronic books. These are the starting point for a new project, EBONI (Electronic Books ON-screen Interface). EBONI focuses on the evaluation of electronic resources for teaching and learning in academia and it is going to expand our previous findings with the aim of producing a set of guidelines for publishing educational material on the Web

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“…The main features of electronic books are that they are dynamic, reactive, can be made available in different formats and/or editions in a short time and, with the growth of the Internet, are accessible almost everywhere [3], [4]. However the cognitive overhead associated with a computer-based environment is an important reason for carefully considering the appropriateness and the method of realising this conversion [5], [6]. It is important to consider both the subject matter and the intended usage of a particular paper book in order to decide whether an electronic version will be useful or not [7], [8].…”

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From the Visual book to the WEB book: the importance of design

Landoni¹,

Wilson²,

Gibb³

2000

The Electronic Library

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This paper presents the results of two studies into electronic book production. The Visual Book study [1] explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor for the production of more effective electronic books, while the WEB Book study [2] took the findings of the Visual Book and applied them to the production of books for publication on the WWW. Both studies started from an assessment of which kinds of paper book are more suitable for conversion into electronic form, and both identified as target publications those which are meant to be used for reference rather than those which are read sequentially and usually in their entirety by users. This includes scientific publications and textbooks which have been chosen for the Visual Book and the WEB Book experiments. In this paper we discuss the results of the two studies and the way they could influence the design and production of more effective electronic books.

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A Humanised Interface to an Electronic Library

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Hyper‐books and visual‐books in an electronic library

Hyper‐books and visual‐books in an electronic library

Looking for guidelines for the production of electronic textbooks

From the Visual book to the WEB book: the importance of design

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