A World Wide Web-based HCI-library Designed for Interaction Studies
Ketil Perstrup, Erik Frøkjær, M. Konstantinovitz, T. Konstantinovitz, F. S. Sørensen, J. Varming · 1997
Abstract. The World Wide Web has the potential for making scientific information widely available even to people without access to scientific libraries, but using the World Wide Web for this is hard in practice. Possible causes for this are that there is no central repository for scientific papers, that the papers are often not indexed by the World Wide Web search engines, and when they are, novices have trouble using the services. We have developed HCILIB as an interface to a collection of scientific articles on Human-Computer Interaction available on the World Wide Web. HCILIB uses a scatter/gather inspired technique to display a browsable structure for the collection integrated with Boolean queries. It has facilities for searchers to restrict their view of the collection to the parts they consider interesting and reorganize these to display a personal classification of documents. This allows us to investigate usage patterns and differences in them for such a library including field studies of the interaction.