TY - GEN
T1 - MedioVis - a User-Centred Library Metadata Browser
AU - Grün, Christian
AU - Gerken, Jens
AU - Jetter, Hans-Christian
AU - König, Werner
AU - Reiterer, Harald
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - MedioVis is a visual information seeking system which was designed especially for library data. The objective target was to create a system which simplifies and optimizes the user's information seeking process and thus further motivates the user to browse in the library stock. To enhance the motivation special attention was given to consider joy of use aspects during the design of the user interface. The primary user interface design is based on multiple coordinated views to offer a great variety of exploration possibilities in a direct-manipulative manner. To accomplish a self-explanatory usability of the system for non-expert users, the development was accompanied by continuous user tests with casual and regular library users. At the end of the development process a comprehensive summative evaluation was conducted, comparing efficiency and joy of use of the existing web-based catalogue system KOALA of the library of the University of Konstanz with the MedioVis system. The results of this comparative evaluation show a significant improvement of the efficiency of the information seeking process with the help of MedioVis. The users also rated MedioVis significantly better in all dimensions of its hedonic quality and appeal compared with KOALA.
AB - MedioVis is a visual information seeking system which was designed especially for library data. The objective target was to create a system which simplifies and optimizes the user's information seeking process and thus further motivates the user to browse in the library stock. To enhance the motivation special attention was given to consider joy of use aspects during the design of the user interface. The primary user interface design is based on multiple coordinated views to offer a great variety of exploration possibilities in a direct-manipulative manner. To accomplish a self-explanatory usability of the system for non-expert users, the development was accompanied by continuous user tests with casual and regular library users. At the end of the development process a comprehensive summative evaluation was conducted, comparing efficiency and joy of use of the existing web-based catalogue system KOALA of the library of the University of Konstanz with the MedioVis system. The results of this comparative evaluation show a significant improvement of the efficiency of the information seeking process with the help of MedioVis. The users also rated MedioVis significantly better in all dimensions of its hedonic quality and appeal compared with KOALA.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33646012275
U2 - 10.1007/11551362_16
DO - 10.1007/11551362_16
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3540287671
SN - 9783540287674
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 174
EP - 185
BT - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 9th European Conference, ECDL 2005, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2005 (ECDL 2005)
Y2 - 18 September 2005 through 23 September 2005
ER -