Enhancing usability in CITIDEL: multimodal, multilingual, and interactive visualization interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Saverio Perugini;Kathleen McDevitt;Ryan Richardson;Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones;Rao Shen;Naren Ramakrishnan;Chris Williams;Edward A. Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal interaction facility with capability for out-of-turn input, interactive visualizations for exploratory analysis, a translation center exposing multilingual interfaces, as well as traditional usability enhancements. Pilot studies demonstrate the resulting improvements in quality, as measured across a number of metrics.