Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 612.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:01:53 +0000
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 14.0592 cognitive effects of formatting
Willard,
slowly but surely we may have found some references for you on the KWIC
front
I've manage to conduct a search using the Boolean string
KWIC AND (interface NEAR design) which nets the following hints and hit
(and I quote some of the contextual copy from Ashok Banerji's site below
the URL)
http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~abanerji/sect2.htm
Some of the important factors influencing the design of end-user
interfaces to electronic books (and tools to support their access within
an electronic library) have been studied by various researchers. In their
paper, Benest, Morgan and Smithurst (1987), for example, discuss the
various principles underlying the design of 'a humanised interface to an
electronic library'. In this work a keyword-in-context (KWIC) index was
used as a means of locating books and documents. The design of a
(graphical) end-user interface to an electronic KWIC for library work has
also been discussed in some detail by Barker (1994a). More in-depth
studies of end-user interface design for electronic books has been
undertaken by Richards (1994), Barker (1991) and Barker, Richards and
Benest (1994). This latter work has produced a number of useful design
guidelines and design models. Further useful research into (and the
development of) end-user interfaces for use in 'digital libraries' is
discussed in a recent issue of the journal 'Communications of the ACM'
(CACM, 1995).
Benest, I.D., Morgan, G. and Smithurst, M.D., (1987). A Humanised
Interface to an Electronic Library, 905-910 in Proceedings of IFIP
Human-Computer Interaction Conference -INTERACT '87, edited by H.-J.
Bullinger and B. Shackel, Elsevier Science Publishers BV (North-Holland),
Amsterdam.
Barker, P.G., (1994a). End-User Interface Design for an Electronic KWIC,
191-202 in 'ONLINE Information 94', Proceedings of the 18th International
Online Information Meeting, 6-8 December, 1994, Olympia, London, UK,
Edited by D.I. Raitt and B. Jeapes, Learned Information (Europe) Ltd,
Oxford, UK.
Richards, S., (1994). End-User Interfaces to Electronic Books, PhD Thesis,
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Teesside, Cleveland,
UK.
Barker, P.G., (1991). Electronic Books, Special Edition of Educational and
Training Technology International, 28(4), 269-368.
Barker, P.G., Richards, S. and Benest, I.D., (1994). Human-Computer
Interface Design for Electronic Books, 213-225 in 'ONLINE Information 94',
Proceedings of the 18th International Online Information Meeting, 6-8
December, 1994, Olympia, London, UK, Edited by D.I. Raitt and B. Jeapes,
Learned Information (Europe) Ltd, Oxford, UK.
CACM, (1995). Special Edition on Digital Libraries, Communications of the
ACM, 38(4).
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hope this helps
-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm
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