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

该奖项为来自加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）图书馆与信息科学研究生院的Christine Borgman博士和Sandra Goldstein博士提供旅行资助。，让他们与新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程学院的同事在John Hiller教授的领导下合作。这一活动使两个小组能够在涉及信息处理任务的互补项目上合作，并借鉴了加州大学洛杉矶分校儿童使用超文本检索系统的研究和工程师使用计算机辅助设计系统的研究。在澳大利亚。加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究小组将提供信息检索方面的专业知识和大量已有的数据，以供分析。澳大利亚队将贡献计算机建模专业知识。计划由澳大利亚人在1993年上半年访问加州大学洛杉矶分校，以协助在相应的澳大利亚赠款下设计《科学图书馆目录》监测分析算法。预计加州大学洛杉矶分校小组将于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线监测方面的互补专门知识。Hiller博士的工作涉及许多与研究人机交互有关的方法学问题，特别是信息，包括图形数据显示和专家与新手用户的比较。他的专长是分析信息检索系统和用户行为的交易日志。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.