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1998May to June, 1998Laura Neumann and Emily Ignacio's paper, "Trial and Error as a Learning Strategy in System Use," was accepted for the American Society for Information Science, Annual Conference, October 26- 29, Pittsburgh, PA. Madonnalisa Gonzales and Laura Neumann finished a report on the situated usability interviews done this past spring. They interviewed registered users of DeLIver to see what they thought of the system, if they had any trouble using it, and also to see what they were using the system for. Ann Bishop's paper . "Understanding Use in the Real World." was accepted. It will be presented and appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. Emily Ignacio sorted through returned surveys and organized a second round of mailings as well as web notifications for our user survey. She began sorting through returned surveys in June to get a preliminary look at how users viewed our system. Our group met to discuss construction of a final report on our findings for this project. We hope to have a large paper completed in the fall of 1998. March- April, 1998Madonnalisa Gonzales and Laura Neummann began carrying out situated usability interviews with selected registered users of DeLIver. Cecelia Merkel worked on organizing the data, figuring out what questions would be most appropriate and useful to ask, and then generating initial reports on regestration data. Laura Neumann and Ann Bishop presented at the annual GSLIS Clinic: "From Usability to Use: Measuring Success of Testbeds in the Real World." Their paper will be published in the Proceedings of the UIUC DLI Spring Partners Workshop and 35th GSLIS Clinic. March 22-24, 1998. DLI Overview Talk http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/spring98workshop/default.htm An overview of our talk is available on the web as well: http://anshar.grainger.uiuc.edu/dlisoc/socsci_site/dpc-overheads-mar98-1.html Ann Bishop's paper "Digital Libraries and Knowledge Disaggregation: The Use of Journal Article Components." was accepted for the ACM DL 98 conference. It will be published in the DL '98: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. New York: ACM. S. Leigh Star, Geofrey C. Bowker, and Laura Neumann reworked their paper on information convergence. It is now titled "Transparency At Different Levels of Scale: Convergence between Information Artifacts and Social Worlds," and is under consideration by the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Emily Ignacio sent out the first mailing of our large- scale user survey. It is aimed at learning how people feel generally about DeLIver, what they most often use it for, and what features they like about it and why. January- February, 1998Emily Igacio and Ann Bishop did a presentation at the Digital Library Initiative conference in California titled "From Usability to Use: Measuring the Success of Testbeds in the Real World." Madonnalisa Gonzales decided that she would like to do an independent study project with our team. Laura Neumann will help her. After some thought, we agree on a series of interviews with DeLIver users. We will bring screen dumps of the system to jog their memories and ask them what they were doing with the system, what (if any) problems they had, and how our system would fit intot heir work practices. Emily Igacio worked to finalize the survey questions and set up the mechanisms by which it would be distributed and analyzed. Our team will work with the Library Research Center. Cecelia Merkel worked on setting up the database and learning how to run queries on the registration and transaction log data. At this time we were still closely monitoring the web logs for DeLIver, to see how many people were accessing the system, and what percent of the people who found the initial log-in page continued on to register. Our team was collaborating to decide what questions would be most fruitfully answered by the transaction log data and the registration data. Emily Ignacio worked on finalizing the exit poll with Ann Bishop. It was passed on to the Testbed team to be implemented. |