Paper Info
Title
Issues in User-Centered Design in LIS.
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to survey the landscape of user-centered design in LIS. We begin the article by exploring the history of the "user-centered paradigm," looking first at the historical schism between behavioral science and computer science, and then surveying some of the methods of user-centered design. In the next section we present examples of technological artifacts that reflect the basic functions of information systems artifacts designed to collect, organize, and retrieve information as a way to present some of the difficulties and opportunities that surround the creations of user-centered design. Specifically, we look at how user-centered design relates to personal collections, social bookmarking, finding aids, Web interface design, information architecture, visualization systems, and personalization and adaptive search. The article then steps back and looks at design through the wider lens of values, asking the question, how are users represented (or misrepresented) through cultural, ethical, and political forces that influence information system design? The article concludes with a summary of the major issues to emerge from our survey of the current state of user-centered design, and from this we extract some key lessons vis a vis research and teaching in LIS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1353/lib.2011.0013
LIBRARY TRENDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
web interface,user centered design,behavioral science,information architecture,visual system
World Wide Web,Computer science,Information science,Information architecture,Design research,Behavioural sciences,Digital library,User interface,Library science,User-centered design,Personalization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
4
0024-2594
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
21
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leanne Bowler111412.92
Sherry Koshman222513.79
Jung Sun Oh327416.28
Daqing He489880.92
Bernadette G. Callery510.35
Geoff Bowker610.69
Richard J. Cox7187.73