Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. When seeking information, either within a document or in a large collection of materials, the contexts of collaboration and place have a strong influence on user performance. While those studying human behaviour have noted these factors, there is at present only a limited understanding of how to provide features that exploit these contexts in computer-based information discovery systems. In this seminar, Dr. Buchanan will report on a series of projects that have uncovered how each factor can be leveraged in new interactions between people and technology, and indicate how the interplay between social and location contexts can provide opportunities neither can on their own. George Buchanan is a Reader in the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University London. His main areas of research encompass information seeking and mobile technologies. His work has received a series of best-paper awards, and he is currently Research Chair of the British Computer Society Special Interest Group (SIG) on Interaction.
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Buchanan, George. (2010). The Usability of digital Documents – A Barrier to Digital Scholarship. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 4(1-2). pp. 125 – 139. [Link]
Buchanan, George. (2010). The Fused Library: Integrating Digital and Physical Libraries With Location-Aware Sensors. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. JCDL ’10. pp. 273-282. [Link]
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