 Research
in Digital Libraries (RIDL)
Interaction
Modelling for the design of Digital Libraries
This project moved to UCL with Ann Blandford in January 2002. Up-to-date
information can be found at the UCL project web site.
Project Background
 he focus of this project is on extending and
testing an Interaction Framework (IF) that defines requirements on the interaction
between users and computers in an interactive system. IF provides a way
of describing and reasoning about processes within a multi-agent interaction.
It explicitly aims to take a high-level view, and to draw on more focused
approaches (that will yield predictions about, for example, network performance
or user perception) as needed. In this way, it is designed to integrate
user, device and domain considerations.
The aims of the work are to achieve a better understanding of the design
of digital libraries from a usability perspective, to develop IF from
the existing prototype method, and to apply IF in the design of the interface
to a digital library so that its utility can be assessed.
People
The following people work on the project:
- Ann Blandford (originally at Middlesex)
- Hanna Stelmaszewska
- Harold Thimbleby (originally at Middlesex)
The following people are external collaborators on the project:
Publications
Shooting the Information Rapids
Introductory paper presented at C@Mdx2000 conference
(Middlesex University)
Interaction Modelling for Digital Libraries presented
at EIMS2000
Use of Multiple Digital Libraries: A case study
Interactional Traps: A case study
on digital libraries
Interactional Traps and Detours: Losing the Common
Ground
Working papers:
A survey of user studies for digital libraries
(working paper)
Understanding Interaction in Digital Libraries:
a case study on applying Interaction Framework (working paper)
Understanding Interaction in the NZDL (working
paper)
This project is funded by EPSRC (GR/M81748).
Last updated 24th November 2002
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