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Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:11:19 +0200
From: Lajos Balint <h48bal at helka.iif.hu>
To: MEKEGYES at LISTSERV.IIF.HU
Subject: [Fwd: Cfp: Usability for Digital Libraries]

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Usability for Digital Libraries Workshop:
Final Call for Participation


A "Usability for Digital Libraries" workshop is being held
at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries on 18th July
2002, in Portland, Oregon.

Theme
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"Its like being given a Rolls Royce and only being able to
sound the horn": this is the description of one user (a
surgeon) when asked about her experience of digital
libraries. Digital libraries have great potential to help
people organise, access and share information in powerful
ways. However, the cost for the user is a huge learning
curve, and most existing libraries do not provide sufficient
or appropriate feedback and guidance to users to enable them
to acquire expertise appropriately rapidly and easily. This
workshop will bring together researchers from a variety of
disciplines to share insights, methods and findings about
usability and user acceptance of digital libraries. Possible
topics include:

* Empirical studies of user behaviour when interacting with
libraries;
* Evaluations of existing libraries;
* Formal and semi-formal models of users, systems and
interactions that support reasoning about usability;
* Novel techniques for supporting usability (NB: reports of
novel techniques are expected to include at least a
user-centred rationale for the approach being adopted, and
preferably a user-centred evaluation of the approach);
* Social and organisational aspects that influence user
acceptance of libraries in various settings;
* Tools and techniques that support designers accommodating
any or all of the above concerns in working digital
libraries.

Papers are welcomed on the above, or related, topics.
Papers should be up to 4 sides, in standard ACM format.

Please submit papers to
Dr. Ann Blandford (email: A.Blandford at ucl.ac.uk),
with a copy to
George Buchanan (G.Buchanan at mdx.ac.uk),
in PDF or RTF form.


Important dates:
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    * Submission: 7th May 2002
    * Notification of acceptance: 31st May 2002
    * Camera-ready copy: 1st July 2002
    * Workshop date: 18th July 2002.

Programme Committee
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Christine Borgman, Univ.of California, Los Angeles, USA
Katy Börner, Indiana University, USA
Sally-Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Matt Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Hanna Stelmaszewska, Middlesex University, London, UK
Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Yin Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Harold Thimbleby, University College London, UK


Futher details
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Are available online at
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/ridl/jcdl02.html


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