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The Digital Library Integrated Task Environment (DLITE)

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The Digital Library Integrated Task Environment (DLITE)
We describe a case study in the design of a user interface to a digital library. Our design stems from a vision of a library as a channel to the vast array of digital information and document services that are becoming available. Based on published studies of library use and on scenarios, we developed a metaphor called workcenters, which are customized for users’ tasks. Due to our scenarios and to prior work in the CHI community, we chose a direct-manipulation realization of the metaphor. Our system, called DLITE, is designed to make it easy for users to interact with many different services while focusing on a task. Users have reacted favorably to the interface design in pilot testing. We conclude by describing our approaches to this problem.
Steve B. Cousins, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd,
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Type Conference
Year 1997
Where DL
Authors Steve B. Cousins, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd, Eric A. Bier, Kenneth A. Pier
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