Interface Design: Resources & Best Practices

Suggested Readings

Albertson, D. (2010), Influences of users’ familiarity with visual search topics on interactive video digital libraries. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 61: 2490–2502. doi: 10.1002/asi.21413

Bates, M. J. (2002). The cascade of interactions in the digital library interface. Information Processing & Management, 38(3), 381-400.

Bilal, D., & Bachir, I. (2007). Children’s interaction with cross-cultural and multilingual digital libraries: I. understanding interface design representations. Information Processing & Management, 43(1), 47-64.

Bilal, D., & Bachir, I. (2007). Children’s interaction with cross-cultural and multilingual digital libraries. II. information seeking, success, and affective experience. Information Processing & Management, 43(1), 65-80.

Buchanan, S. (2009). Evaluating the usability and usefulness of a digital library. Library Review 58(9): 638-651.

Chowdhury, G., Sudatta, C., Landoni, M., & Gibb, F. (2012) Usability and Impact of Digital Libraries: A Review.” Online Information Review, 30.6 (2006): 656-680.

Comeaux, D. J. (2008). Usability Studies and User-centered Design in Digital Libraries. Journal of Web Librarianship, 2(2):457-475.

Detlor, B., & Arsenault, C. (2002). Web information seeking and retrieval in digital library contexts: Towards an intelligent agent solution. Online Information Review, 26(6), 404-412.

Druin, A., Bederson, B. B., Hourcade, J. P., Sherman, L., Revelle, G., Platner, M., & Weng, S. (2001). Designing a digital library for young children. Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 398-405.

Druin, A., Bederson, B. B., Weeks, A., Farber, A., Grosjean, J., Guha, M. L., . . . Zhang, L. (2003).  The international children’s digital library: Description and analysis of first use.

Druin, A., Revelle, G., Bederson, B. B., Hourcade, J. P., Farber, A., Lee, J., & Campbell, D. (2003). A collaborative digital library for children. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19(2), 239-248.

Greene, S., Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., & Shneiderman, B. (2000). Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to support visual information seeking. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(4), 380-393.

Hourcade, J. P., Bederson, B. B., Druin, A., Rose, A., Farber, A., & Takayama, Y. (2003). The international children’s digital library: Viewing digital books online. Interacting with Computers, 15(2), 151-167.

Hutchinson, H., Druin, A., Bederson, B. B., Reuter, K., Rose, A., & Weeks, A. C. (2005). How do I find blue books about dogs? The errors and frustrations of young digital library users. Proceedings of HCII 2005

Hutchinson, H. B., Bederson, B. B., & Druin, A. (2006). The evolution of the international children’s digital library searching and browsing interface. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 105-112.

Jeng, J. (2009). Usability evaluation of digital library. In Theng, Y.-L., Foo, S., Goh, D., & Na, J.-C., (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact (pp. 278-86). IGI Global.

Lagoze, C., Arms, W., Gan, S., Hillmann, D., Ingram, C., Krafft, D., . . . Terrizzi, C. (2002). Core services in the architecture of the national science digital library (NSDL). Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 201-209.

Lanyi, C. S., & Brown, D. J. (2010). Design of Serious Games for Students with Intellectual Disability. Proc. Human Computer Interaction, 1-11.

Lesk, M. (2004). Chapter 7: Usability and retrieval evaluation. In Understanding Digital Libraries. 2nd Ed. (pp. 185-216). Amsterdam: Morgan-Kaufmann.

Nov, O. and Ye, C. (2009), Resistance to change and the adoption of digital libraries: An integrative model. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 60: 1702–1708. doi: 10.1002/asi.21068

Reuter, K., & Druin, A. (2004). Bringing together children and books: An initial descriptive study of children’s book searching and selection behavior in a digital library. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41(1), 339-348.

Theng, Y., Nasir, N., Thimbleby, H., Buchanan, G., Jones, M., Bainbridge, D., & Cassidy, N. (2000). Children as design partners and testers for a children’s digital library. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, , 249-258.

Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D., & Nichols, D.M. (2010). Chapter 3: Presentation: User interfaces. In How to Build a Digital Library (pp. 73-126), 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann.

Xie, I. & Matusiak, K. (2016). Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and practice. Elsevier.

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