Why bad ideas are a good idea (2008)
Alan Dix, Tom Ormerod, Michael Twidale, Corina Sas, Paula Alex, ...
What would happen if we wrote an Abstract that was the exact opposite of what the paper described? This is a bad idea, but it makes us think more carefully than usual about properties of Abstracts....
Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development (2008)
Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale, Oksana Zavalina, Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, ...
As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse...
Interface Devices and Public Participation 1 (2008)
Lewis D. Hopkins, Michael Twidale, Varkki George Pallathucheril
Research on public-participation geo-spatial technologies is largely directed at taking advantage of the potential broad reach of the Internet. In particular, Web-based GIS applications support...
Cameron Jones, Dinesh Rathi, Michael Twidale, Wei Li
In a global economy, organizations are increasingly selling online in multiple markets, as well as coordinating work teams distributed across geopolitical, cultural, and language boundaries. These...
Creating Ambient Visualisations using Extreme Prototyping (2008)
Jennifer G. Sheridan, Alan Dix, Simon Lock, Michael Twidale
Abstract. In this paper we report on an exciting exploratory experiment that lead to a number of ambient visualisations of passively sensed human activity. Ambient displays offer those around some...
YOUR MARK IS MY DIRT: IMPACT OF EMAIL SIGNATURES ON DECISION MAKING (2008)
Dinesh Rathi, Michael Twidale, Ana Singh
In order to text mine email data it is important to address the substantial amount of noise usually contained in the data. This noise can skew the results of data mining and so reduce the...
ADAPTING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR COLLABORATIVE TECHNICAL PROBLEM SOLVING (2008)
Dinesh Rathi, Michael Twidale, Vandana Singh
The paper considers the potential of a representation to facilitate the sharing of technical how-to help in workplace environments. The method uses screenshots of trails through a computer...
Do Web Interfaces to Email Services Support Users in Coping with Spam Filter Brittleness? (2008)
Christopher Lueg, Michael Twidale
For a number of reasons, spam filters cannot be expected to be totally reliable. Regardless, most research on spam filtering focuses on finding "better " filtering criteria to...
Why bad ideas are a good idea (2008)
Alan Dix, Tom Ormerod, Michael Twidale, Corina Sas, Paula Alex, ...
What would happen if we wrote an Abstract that was the exact opposite of what the paper described? This is a bad idea, but it makes us think more carefully than usual about properties of Abstracts....
Tracking Metadata Use for Digital Collections (2008)
Ellen Knutson, Carole Palmer, Michael Twidale
We are investigating how resource developers can best represent digital collections and items to meet the requirements of divergent service providers and user communities. Our first goal is to...
The Usability of Open Source Software (2007)
David Nichols, Michael Twidale
Open source communities have successfully developed a great deal of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as...
This article reports on a study which used results from 119 scenario–based evaluations of 36 museum Web sites to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum Web...
This article documents the authors’ attempt to develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method for demonstrating user testing to an audience. The resulting method, Usability@90mph, is simple...
Reflective collaborative learning on the Web: Drawing on the master class (2007)
Karen Ruhleder, Michael Twidale
We draw on the music master class as an established face-to-face pedagogical model as one that supports reflective, collaborative learning practices. We then illustrate how this model is being...
Toward Understanding Sustainability and Usability of Email Communication in the Age of Spam (2006)
Lueg, Christopher, Huang, Jeff, Twidale, Michael
This is a submission to the "Interrogating the social realities of information and communications systems pre-conference workshop, ASIST AM 2006" Physically dispersed people (re)find themselves...
Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development (2006)
Palmer, Carole L., Knutson, Ellen M., Twidale, Michael, Zavalina, Oksana
As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse...
Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development (2006)
Palmer, Carole L., Knutson, Ellen M., Twidale, Michael, Zavalina, Oksana
As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse...
Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not
Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michael Twidale, Key Issues
• Teaching face-to-face you get a sense of the ‘buzz ’ of the in-class discussions, degrees of student participation and how the class is doing over time. Teaching remotely you often lose these...
DEBORA: Developing an Interface to Support Collaboration in a Digital Library (2000)
David Nichols, Duncan Pemberton, Salah Dalhoumi, Omar Larouk, Claire Belisle, Michael Twidale
Interfaces to library systems have largely failed to represent the inherently collaborative nature of information work. This paper describes how collaborative functionality is being implemented as...
Collaborative Browsing and Visualisation of the Search Process (1996)
Michael Twidale, David Nichols, Michael B. Twidale, David M. Nichols
this paper we highlight the social and collaborative aspects of browsing and discuss how they may be assisted by explicit computerised support. Specifically, we describe the Ariadne system -- an...
Dave Randall, Richard Bentley, Michael Twidale
Introduction 2.15 pm - 2.40 pm Pressures for change in the design process 2.40 pm - 2.50 pm The origins and development of Organisational Theory 2.50 pm - 3.20 pm Change Management strategies 3.20 pm...
Issues in Collaborative Database Browsing (1994)
Michael Twidale, M. B. Twidale, David Nichols, D. Nichols, Pete Sawyer, John Mariani, ...
This report examines the possibilities for extending the CSCW approach to searching and browsing in computerised databases. In particular we are concerned with supporting the learning of browsing...
Populated Information Terrains: Supporting the Cooperative Browsing of on-Line Information (1994)
Steve Benford, Steve Benford, Steve Benford, Rob Ingram, Rob Ingram, Rob Ingram, ...
The growth of network availability has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of on-line information users can access remotely. However, users often have difficulty locating the details they...
Situated Evaluation for Cooperative Systems (1994)
Michael Twidale, David Randall, Michael Twidale, David R, David R, Richard Bentley, ...
This paper discusses an evaluation of the MEAD prototype, a multi-user interface generator tool particularly for use in the context of Air Traffic Control (ATC). The procedures we adopted took the...
The Designers' Notepad: supporting and understanding cooperative design (1993)
Michael Twidale, Tom Rodden, Ian Sommerville
ABSTRACT: We describe the development of a system to support cooperative software design. An iterative development approach has been used, based upon the observation of system use in authentic design...
. The paper discusses issues to be considered when evaluating an Intelligent Learning Environment. In particular it considers problems that may arise when using rigorous experimental methods and the...
Integrating Ethnography Into the Requirements Engineering Process (1993)
Ian Sommerville, Tom Rodden, Pete Sawyer, Richard Bentley, Michael Twidale
This paper reports on experiences of an inter-disciplinary project involving software engineers and sociologists. The project is concerned with discovering the requirements for a user interface to a...
The Use of Multiple Instantiations in Interactive Learning Environments (1993)
La Yr, Michael Twidale, Michael Twidale
The paper describes the benefits of providing an Interactive Learning Environment with an interface which allows explicit planning and instantiation. In addition to providing information about the...
The Designers' Notepad: (1993)
Supporting And Understanding, Michael Twidale, Tom Rodden, Ian Sommerville
We describe the development of a system to support cooperative software design. An iterative development approach has been used, based upon the observation of system use in authentic design sessions....
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Systems (1992)
Chanier, Thierry, Pengelly, Michael, Twidale, Michael, Self, John
Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Conceptual Modelling in Error Analysis in Computer-Assisted Langauge learning Systems (1992)
La Yr, Thierry Chanier, Thierry Chanier, Michael Pengelly, Michael Pengelly, Michael Twidale, ...
: Many computer-assisted language learning systems specifically designed to be used in the curriculum and which exploit AI techniques have neither a learner model nor consequently any deep error...
Experiments on Knowledge Acquisition for Learner Modelling (1990)
Michael Twidale, Michael Pengelly, Thierry Chanier, John A, J. Whiting (eds, ...
Within a general framework for learner modelling we propose a technique, involving the use of a structured interface, for the effective acquisition of a richer and deeper model of learners'...