Texttiles Browser

The Texttiles browser is a prototype of a rich-prospect browser. Rich-prospect browsing principles consist of providing a persistent display of all items in a collection and controls to manipulate the display, and organization of those items (Ruecker 2004). These principles have been evaluated in previous studies in order to identify different sorts of pills (Given et al. 2007), and conference delegates (Ruecker et al. 2006). With the Texttiles browser we attempt to translate those principles to collections that consist mainly of textual information. We also aim to provide more comprehensive controls on the display of such information.

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References

Given, L., S. Ruecker, H. Simpson, B. Sadler, and A. Ruskin. (2007). “Inclusive Interface Design for Seniors: Exploring the Health Information-Seeking Context.” JASIST. 58(11), 1610-1617. 2007.
Ruecker, S. (2003). Affordances of Prospect for Academic Users of Interpretively-tagged Text Collections. Diss. University of Alberta.
Ruecker, Stan, Michael Lewcio, Michael Plouffe, and Maryanne Wynne. (2006). “I never forget a face: a rich-prospect image browser for conferences.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) conference. York University, Toronto. May 29-31, 2006.