Experiences with Developing a User-Centered Digital Library

Purpose This paper aims to present an overview of the challenges encountered in integrating visual search interfaces into digital libraries and repositories. These challenges come in various forms, including information visualisation, the use of knowledge organisation systems and metadata quality. The main purpose of this study is the identification of criteria for the evaluation and integration of visual search interfaces, proposing guidelines and recommendations to improve information retrieval tasks with emphasis on the education-al context. Design/methodology/approach The information included in this study was collected based on a systematic literature review approach. The main information sources were explored in several digital libraries, including Science Direct, Scopus, ACM and IEEE, and include journal articles, conference proceedings, books, European project reports and deliverables and PhD theses published in an electronic format. A total of 142 studies comprised the review. Findings There are several issues that authors did not fully discuss in this literature review study; more specific, aspects associated with access of digital resources in digital libraries and repositories based on human computer interaction, i.e. usability and learnability of user interfaces; design of a suitable navigation method of search based on simple knowledge organisation schemes; and the use of usefulness of visual search interfaces to locate relevant resources. Research limitations/implications The main steps for carrying out a systematic review are drawn from health care; this methodology is not commonly used in fields such as digital libraries and repositories. The authors aimed to apply the fundamentals of the systematic literature review methodology considering the context of this study. Additionally, there are several aspects of accessibility that were not considered in the study, such as accessibility to content for disabled people as defined by ISO/IEC 40500:2012. Originality/value No other systematic literature reviews have been conducted in this field. The research presents an in-depth analysis of the criteria associated with searching and navigation methods based on the systematic literature review approach. The analysis is relevant for researchers in the field of digital library and repository creation in that it may direct them to considerations in designing and implementing visual search interfaces based on the use of information visualisation.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Motivating Confident Privacy Protection Practices

Coles-Kemp

Kani‐Zabihi

2011

2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing

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The study presented in this paper shows that service users can have low confidence in a service provider's ability to protect their personal information even if those service users trust the overall brand. Today, on-line services are not specifically designed to promote a service user's confidence building. As a result, service users have to depend on off-line techniques to build confidence in their information practices. One implication of not having effective support for confidence building designed into the on-line service is that, despite costly investment in trust marks, security technologies and brand development, service users will continue to give false information, limit the extent of their engagement in on-line services and avoid registration with on-line services. In the era of on-line public services delivery, this pattern of privacy protection practice potentially has devastating consequences for public service delivery and the ability of the most vulnerable to receive the public service support that they need. The study also indicates that providing interaction possibilities through social computing as part of the service design is one way to help build service user confidence. This paper concludes with examples of social computing used for this purpose.

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Experiences with Developing a User-Centered Digital Library

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Increasing Service Users’ Privacy Awareness by Introducing On-Line Interactive Privacy Features

Increasing Service Users’ Privacy Awareness by Introducing On-Line Interactive Privacy Features

Trends and challenges of visual search interfaces in digital libraries and repositories

Practice Makes Perfect: Motivating Confident Privacy Protection Practices

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