Browsing by Author "Bennett, Erin Kay"

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Re-designing Greenstone for Seniors

Bennett, Erin Kay (The University of Waikato, 2008)

The golden generation have a wealth of experience and knowledge from throughout their lifetimes that younger generations wish to retain. In our technology filled world an obvious means of collecting this information is ...
Tailoring the Greenstone ‘Librarian’ for seniors: Eliciting metadata and browsing structures

Cunningham, Sally Jo; Bennett, Erin Kay (2011)

This paper describes a ‘cultural probe’ study underpinning a user-centered re-design of the Greenstone digital library system's collection creation sub-system (the Greenstone ‘Librarian’), with a focus on assisting seniors ...
Understanding collection understanding with collage

Cunningham, Sally Jo; Bennett, Erin Kay (Springer, 2008)

A streaming collage visualization of images extracted from the collection’s documents has been proposed as an effective tool for gaining a comprehensive overview of a digital library collection (“collection understanding”). ...
Usability of Greenstone's ‘Librarian’ to create and maintain a digital library: The case of senior users

Cunningham, Sally Jo; Bennett, Erin Kay (2011)

While Greenstone is a versatile tool for creating and managing digital collections, its interface is not well suited for senior users. As we age, our usability requirements for software change; the mismatch between interfaces ...