Best Paper Award at European Conference on Digital Libraries
Paper entitled "Hear It Is: Enhancing Rapid Document Browsing with Sound Cues" by Parisa Eslambochilar, George Buchanan and Fernando Loizides, in the European Conference on Digital Libraries wins Best Paper Award
Document navigation has become increasingly commonplace as the use of electronic documents has grown. Speed-Dependent Automatic Zooming (SDAZ) is one popular method for providing rapid movement within a digital text. However, there is evidence that details of the document are overlooked as the pace of navigation rises. We produced a document reader software where sound is used to complement the visual cues that a user searches for visually. This software was then evaluated in a user study that provides strong supportive evidence that non-visual cues can improve user performance in visual seeking tasks.
Last year, George won the best paper with "Improving Placeholders in Digital Documents" - authors George Buchanan and Jennifer Pearson, and in 2007 it was George and Fernando Loizides with "Investigating Document Triage on Paper and Electronic Media". The acceptance rate for full papers at the conference is c. 20-25% depending on the year.
CONTACT DETAILS
Dr George Buchanan, george.buchanan.1@city.ac.uk
Neil Maiden, cc559@soi.city.ac.uk