Transcript Advanced Information Architecture Topics

Information Architecture & Design
• Week 13 Schedule
- Advanced IA Topics
• When is IA Different?
• Alternate IA Environments
- BREAK
- Research Topic Presentation
- 10 Minute Drill
IA Methodology
Planning
Analysis
Design
Verification
Construction
Maintenance
Bookmarks
• Bookmarks are your own Personal Information
Architecture
• How Many?
• What For?
• Why Bookmark?
• Do You Organize Your Bookmarks?
Bookmarks & Web Use with IA
• How Do Your Bookmarks Influence How You
Use the Web?
• What Do Your Bookmarks Note About Your
Web Use?
• How Does Using Bookmarks Affect the IA of a
Web Site?
• How Can You Promote Bookmark Use for a
Web Site?
• Why Is Bookmarking Helpful for IA?
Information Archiving with Bookmarks
• Small, Older Study
- 50 Bookmarkers
- 300+ Web Users
• How People Create, Use and Organize Bookmarks
• Bookmarks Are One Method to Make Sense of the Web
- Supporting Searching
- Supporting Browsing
• Help with Mental Model of the Web
• A “Personal Web Information Space”
Abrams, Baecker & Chignell (1998)
Information Archiving with Bookmarks (2)
• Why Bookmarks?
- Frequently Used Pointers
• Easy to Make
• Easy to Use
- Archives
• Topics of Interests
• Aging Interests (forever)
• Paths Through the Web (over time)
• What Bookmarks?
- Distinct Domain Names
- Index or Search Engines
- Front/Main (News) Pages
Information Archiving with Bookmarks (3)
• Methods for Organizing Bookmarks
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Ordered List (re-arranged)
Sets & Folders
Hierarchy (Nested Folders)
External Web Page(s)
Other System(s)
• More Bookmarks Require More Organization
Methods
Information Archiving with Bookmarks (4)
• Bookmark Filing Strategies
- None – Never – Natural Order
- At Creation Time
• Folders
• Labels
- At End of Browsing Session
• More Folders
• More Time
- When Bookmark Sets Become Unwieldy
• Randomly
• Scheduled
• Archival Use
- 100 Day Median
- About Half Visited in the Last Three Months
- Almost All Within the Last Year
Information Archiving with Bookmarks (5)
• Organizing Bookmarks
- Only When Necessary
- Tradeoff Against Not Finding a Bookmark
• Finding Bookmarks
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Names of Bookmarks Not Always Descriptive
Folders Difficult to Navigate
Remembering Bookmark Location Challenging
Recalling Exact Bookmark Name Unlikely
Information Archiving with Bookmarks (6)
• How to Enable & Expand Bookmarking Functions?
- Taxonomy-Classification
- Automatic Bookmarking
- Agents
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“My” Web (Site – Nav Bar)
Bookmarking As Poaching
Sharing With Others (email)
Should We Bookmark at All?
- Search Engines Are More Efficient
- Web Use History (if extended) Show Prior Accesses
- Interfaces Don’t Scale for Volume
• Implications for IA?
Design Space for Personal Info Mgmt Tools
• How Can We Help People Remember Where Information
Has Been Stored?
• How Can We Display How Information Is Stored?
• How Can We Manage Daily (and other) Information
Tasks?
• Stacks, Folders and Piles of Information
- Appearance
- Geographic Cues
- Temporal Cues
• A Web Site
Peters (2001)
Design Space for Personal Info Mgmt (2)
• Very Personalized Management
• Event-Driven Retrieval
• Numerous Devices, Locations & Formats
- Systems
- Home and Work (Now Mobile)
- Contexts
• Confusion Affects Memory of Information
• IA Implications
- Web Sites?
- eCommerce Site?
- Portal?
Design Space for Personal Info Mgmt (3)
• Email
- Rapid Increases in Volume
- Task Management
- Remembrance Agents
• “Most Efficient”
- “Group Items of Similar Type Together” (then)
- “Order Them By Time” (p 2)
• Task Analysis
- Domain of Tasks
• System Interface Affordances
Document Management & Web Tech
• (Alice Marries the Mad Hatter)
• Keeping up with Web Technologies
• Instant (Dynamic) Publishing Often Bypasses
Information Architecture Issues
• Follow a Systematic Design Methodology
• Use a Document Management System
Balasubramanian & Bashian (1998)
Document Mgmt & Web Tech (2)
Document Mgmt & Web Tech (3)
• Manage and deliver large amounts of unstructured
material in multiple media
• Provide a consistent and predictable information
structure, user interface, and navigational mechanism
• Enable linking of related materials
• Ensure information is up-to-date
• Facilitate non-technical authors in creating the content
• Support well-defined roles, responsibilities, and
access control for various stakeholders in various
departments
• Enable workflow between authors, product managers,
content administrators, editors, attorneys, and system
administrators
Document Mgmt & Web Tech (4)
• Enable the composing and publishing of
different views of marketing information for
different audiences: financial consultants,
clients, the public
• Provide version control to support regulatory
requirements
• Provide a locking or concurrency control mechanism
to prevent two or more people from simultaneously
updating the same content
• Enable searching and retrieval of content using
predefined business characteristics of products and
services
Document Mgmt & Web Tech (5)
• How Do You Integrate All These
Requirements?
• Use a Database
• Make the System Fit the Organization
(Not the Reverse)
• Use Generated Templates with
Instructions and Comments Ready for
Filling In
• Keep Objects in Sync (between versions)
Document Mgmt & Web Tech (6)
• Gradually Integrate New Features into the Doc
Mgmt System
• Gradually Integrate New Features into the Web
Site
- Staging & Production Servers
- Automatic Verification
- Usability
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Can Others Input (Content) Changes?
Don’t Chase New Technologies
Users Aren’t Like Us
Web Sites Are More Likely to Be Like
Applications Now, Follow Structured Dev.
Methods
Principles for Digital Library Development
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New Projects and Converted Projects
Expect Changes
Ensure Open Access
Be(a)ware of Data Rights
Automate When Possible
Use Standards
Work Towards Persistence
Good List of Resources (Fig. 5)
McCray & Gallagher (2001)
Bonus Points – IA Tool Reviews
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Each Review Contributes 1 point to Final Grade
Up to Five IA Tool Reviews
Submit Notice of IA Tool Review and Name of Tool
Submit Notice Now
Tool Reviews Accepted No Later Than Dec. 3rd at Beginning
of Class
- IA Tool Review Format:
• Key IA Functions of Tool
• Describe Interface and Unique Features
- Menus
- Commands
- Formats
• Screen Capture of Main Tool Interface & Additional
Noteworthy Features
• Example of Tool Output (graphic, search results,…)
Next Week
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Group Presentations Order Set
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Rehearsing Recommended
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20 Minutes
8 Minutes of Questions
2 Minutes for Setup
Course Evaluation (Nadalia)
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