Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think
Communications of the ACM
The CORE electronic chemistry library
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Users, user interfaces, and objects: Envision, a digital library
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
A task-oriented interface to a digital library
Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A user-centered interface for information exploration in a hetergeneous digital library
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
Construction kits and design environments: steps toward human problem-domain communication
Human-Computer Interaction
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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DWE is aimed at providing a one-stop access point to local and remote digital library collections, traditional in-house libraries, and most importantly, to the vast array of information resources that exists in the academic community's local Intranet. Due to vast amount of information available and the difficulty faced by students and staff in finding the relevant resources, there is a need for a better and logical organization of these resources. DWE uses tasks as a means of directing students and staff to the relevant resources. Tasks generally play an important role in system and user interface design. Identifying the user's tasks enables the designer to construct user interfaces reflecting the tasks' properties, including efficient usage patterns, easy-to-use interaction sequences, and powerful assistance features. The resources in DWE are organized according to specific tasks performed by the research students and staff in the division of information studies. The tasks and resources were elicited based on the needs of faculty and students through interviews and focus groups.