Enhancing usability in CITIDEL: multimodal, multilingual, and interactive visualization interfaces

Author

Perugini, Saverio ; McDevitt, Kathleen ; Richardson, Ryan ; Perez-Quinones, M. ; Shen, Rao ; Ramakrishnan, Naren ; Williams, Chris ; Fox, Edward A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 June 2004

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

324

Abstract

We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal interaction facility with capability for out-of-turn input, interactive visualizations for exploratory analysis, a translation center exposing multilingual interfaces, as well as traditional usability enhancements. Pilot studies demonstrate the resulting improvements in quality, as measured across a number of metrics.

Keywords

academic libraries; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; language translation; linguistics; CITIDEL; community translation; exploratory analysis; interactive visualization; multimodal interaction; out-of-turn interaction; personalized information access; translation center exposing multilingual interfaces; usability-enhancing interfaces; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Information technology; Natural languages; Protocols; Software libraries; Usability; User centered design; User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-58113-832-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336142

Filename

1336142