• A log analysis study of 10 years of ebook consumption in academic library collections 

  Littlewood, Haley; Hinze, Annika; Vanderschantz, Nicholas; Timpany, Claire; Cunningham, Sally Jo (Springer, 2014)

  Even though libraries have been offering eBooks for more than a decade, very little is known about eBook access and consumption in academic library collections. This paper addresses this gap with a log analysis study of ...

  

• An analysis of cooking queries: Implications for supporting leisure cooking 

  Cunningham, Sally Jo; Bainbridge, David (iSchools, 2013)

  Cooking is a common and an information-intensive activity. We analyze a set of 678 cooking-related queries to identify the attributes that cooks provide in their queries to the Google AnswersTM ‘ask an expert’ online ...

  

• An analysis of usage of a digital library 

  Jones, Steve; Cunningham, Sally Jo; McNab, Rodger J. (University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1998-06)

  As experimental digital library testbeds gain wider acceptance and develop significant user bases, it becomes important to investigate the ways in which users interact with the systems in practice. Transaction logs are one ...

  

• Analyzing users’ behaviour to identify their privacy concerns 

  Cunningham, Sally Jo; Masoodian, Masood (2010)

  The majority of studies examining privacy concerns of Internet users are based on surveys. Many problems have, however, been identified with using surveys to measure people’s privacy concerns. Based on our experience from ...

  

• Applications for bibliometric research in the emerging digital library 

  Cunningham, Sally Jo; Vallabh, Mahendra (University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 1995-05)

  A large amount of research literature has recently become available on the Internet through "digital libraries". This migration of information from paper to electronic media promises to have a huge impact on the way that ...

  

• Typographic Emphasis of Headings: Methods of typographic emphasis to assist with search of unfamiliar and familiar text 

  Timpany, Claire (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Readers use headings to understand the structure and content of a text, and to locate information. Readers understand the structure of a text by building an understanding of the structure of the content through developing ...

  

• KidsQuestions: Assisting Children’s Digital Information Seeking 

  Vanderschantz, Nicholas (University of Waikato, 2016)

  The work presented in this thesis aims at supporting children’s digital information seeking. Children are known to have difficulties effectively using the information technologies that are available to them. We hypothesize ...

  

• Keeping track of electronic reading material 

  Alanazi, Mohammed Subhi (University of Waikato, 2013)

  Because reading electronically has become widespread, keeping track of the wide range of material one reads has become a problem. To explore this issue, a user study was conducted concerning how people keep track of the ...

  

• Providing computer-assisted, two-way feedback in formative assessment: an innovation supporting best educational practice 

  Gaukrodger, Howard Malcolm (University of Waikato, 2012)

  This thesis presents the design and development of an educational ICT innovation called the Quality Assessment System (QAS), intended to: increase the speed of providing useful, legible and consistent feedback, enhance ...

  

• Development of wireless network planning software for rural community use 

  Bartels, Samuel James (University of Waikato, 2012)

  Rural New Zealand has poor access to broadband Internet. The CRCnet project at the University of Waikato identified point-to-point wireless technology as an appropriate solution, and built networks for rural communities. ...

  

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