Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Apprenticing with the customer
Communications of the ACM
Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Usability Engineering
Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: The Great Divide
Social Science, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work: The Great Divide
Introduction and overview: effective methods for studying information seeking and use
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
User information seeking behavior in a medical web portal environment: a preliminary study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Do-it-yourself information technology: Role hybridization and the design-use interface
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Design research for a context-aware capture system to support biology education
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
Unearthing the Infrastructure: Humans and Sensors in Field-Based Scientific Research
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Complementary, socially grounded, user-centered methodologies are being used to design new information systems to support biodiversity informatics. Each of the methods--interviews, focus groups, field observations, immersion, and lab testing--has its own strengths and weaknesses. Methods vary in their ability to reveal the automatic processes of experts (that need to be learned by novices), data richness, and their ability to help interpret complex information needs and processes. When applied in concert, the methods provide a much clearer picture of the use of information while performing a real life information-mediated task. This picture will be used to help inform the design of a new information system, Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE). The groups being studied are high school students, teachers, and volunteer adult groups performing biodiversity surveys. In this task the people must identify and record information about many species of flora and fauna. Most of the information tools they use for training and during the survey are designed to facilitate the difficult species identification task.