US-Australia Cooperative Research: Methods for Online Monitoring of User Behavior in Information Technologies

该奖项为克里斯汀·博格曼博士和桑德拉·戈尔茨坦博士提供旅行支持，他们都来自加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)图书情报研究生院，使他们能够在约翰·希勒教授的领导下与新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程学院的同事们合作。这项活动允许两个团队在涉及信息处理任务的互补项目上携手合作，并借鉴了一项关于儿童使用超文本检索系统的研究在加州大学洛杉矶分校和澳大利亚工程师使用计算机辅助设计系统(CAD)的研究。加州大学洛杉矶分校的团队将贡献信息检索专业知识和大量已可用于分析的数据。澳大利亚团队将贡献计算机建模方面的专业知识。澳大利亚人计划在1993年上半年访问加州大学洛杉矶分校，以协助设计澳大利亚赠款项下的科学图书馆目录监测分析算法。预计加州大学洛杉矶分校的小组将于1993年8月前往澳大利亚，进一步建立数据模型并进行比较分析，从而利用两个小组在网上监测方面的互补专长。希勒博士的工作解决了一些与研究人机交互相关的方法论问题，特别是信息，包括图形数据显示和专家与新手用户的比较。博格曼博士的专长是分析信息检索系统的交易日志和用户行为。戈尔茨坦女士的工作将被纳入她的论文。

This award provides travel support for Dr. Christine Borgman and Sandra Goldstein, a doctoral student, both from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Library and Information Science, to enable them to work with a team of colleagues at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales under the leadership of Prof. John Hiller. The activity allows the two teams to join forces in working on complementary projects involving information processing tasks and draws upon a study of children's use of hypertext retrieval systems at UCLA and studies of engineers' use of computer aided design systems (CAD) in Australia. The UCLA team will contribute the information retrieval expertise and a large body of data already available for analysis. The Australian team will contribute the computer- modeling expertise. Plans are for the Australians to visit UCLA in the first half of 1993 to assist in the design of the Science Library Catalog monitoring analysis algorithms under the counterpart Australian grant. It is expected that the UCLA team will go to Australia in August 1993 to further the data modeling and conduct a comparative analysis thus using the complementary expertise in online monitoring of the two teams. Dr Hiller's work deals with a number of methodological issues relevant to studying human-computer interaction in general and information in particular, including graphical data display and expert vs. novice user comparisons. Dr. Borgman's expertise is in the analysis of transaction logs of information retrieval systems and user behavior. Ms. Goldstein's work will be incorporated in her dissertation.