Information Tasks

Toward a User-Centered Approach to Information Systems

By: Bryce Allen

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Hardcover | 9 October 1996

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The user-centered approach is central to the creation of usable information systems, services, and institutions. Information system design should derive from user research into information needs, tasks accomplished in meeting those needs, and resources used in the tasks. Information Tasks summarizes user research, then presents design sketches of systems that illustrate how design is linked to research. Also discussed are usable information services and an overview of the organization and economics of information institutions. This comprehensive user-centered approach provides an agenda for information research, design, and education that challenges many accepted beliefs and suggests new directions for information work.
Information Tasks is of interest to library and information science students and faculty interested in information storage and retrieval, user studies, and systems analysis design. Students and scholars of human factors in systems design, human-computer interaction, and cognitive engineering also find the text useful.
Key Features
* Reviews user research from many disciplines
* Links research to practical design issues
* Provides a unified model for user studies and user-centered design
* Includes how-to summaries of design chapters
* Shows how designers can investigate their user communities
* Provides a general template for the design process
* Integrates all aspects of information design
* Discusses library issues in the larger information context

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"The major theme of this book is important and central to information science. The approach is unique and may affect the thinking and behavior of many information professionals. Both the approach and organization of material in this book are innovative and imaginative. The book looks at information institutions and the profession, in addition to user behavior, opinions and system design. It is well written and clearly thought out, citing significant studies and extensive literature. A very scholarly approach."
--AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Databases Library & Info Sciences Automation of Library & Information Services Library Library & Information Services Computer Science Computer Architecture & Logic Design Engineering & Technology Technology in General Engineering in General

Introduction
An Introduction to User-Centered Information System Design
Information Needs
Information Needs and Information Design
Expressing Information Needs
Designing Systems for Meeting Expressed Information Needs
Information Tasks: Interacting with Information Systems
Design Details for Information Systems
Information Services from the User's Perspective
Information Institutions
Conclusion: User-Centered Design and Evaluation
Chapter References
Index
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