Interaction Modelling for Digital Libraries
Nick Bryan–Kinns, ANN E. BLANDFORD, Harold Thimbleby · 2000
This paper reports on the development of a framework to support interaction modelling in order to inform design and evaluation of interactive systems. The utility and nature of this Interaction Framework (IF) are illustrated by considering user interaction within digital libraries. In particular, we are interested in how requirements on user interfaces to information repositories, such as supporting serendipity and ease of familiarisation with the structure of the collection, can be described and understood. IF provides a means of mapping such abstract requirements onto concrete descriptions of the interaction as illustrated by examples in this paper.