In the field of digital libraries, research on user experience is sparse, especially in terms of
emotions, impressions, and stimulation evoked by interaction with the digital library. Given …

Information foraging connects optimal foraging theory in ecology with how humans search
for information. The theory suggests that, following an information scent, the information …

The objective of this controlled information retrieval (IR) user experiment is to gain an
understanding of domain experts' interactions with novel search interfaces within the context …

Visualizations on the Web can help users to understand complex concepts, such as when
too many objects of possible interest are present. For the purpose of evaluation of their …

Controlled vocabularies such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) have been extensively
used to organise information resources in the biomedical domain. However, the usefulness …

Although computational tools play an increasingly important role in the humanities, adoption
of tools by scholars does not always reach its potential. One approach to this problem is user …

Students and researchers of media and communication sciences study the role of media in
our society. They frequently search through media archives to manually select items that …

Document triage is the process of determining the relevance of documents to an information
need. Research related to academic documents has identified specific information elements …

The development of tools plays an important role in the Digital Humanities. With the
increasing quantities of digitised as well as born-digital source material, computational tools …

This paper presents findings of an exploratory pilot study investigating the information
evaluation behavior of 30 researchers, including both novices and experts. Specifically, the …