As humans, we are used to being, living and thinking in the three-dimensional, physical space that is called the “world”. It is our natural habitat. Recently, we have become active in another world: the “digital world”, ...

The recent development of Web Analytics offers new perspectives to libraries, archives and museums to improve their knowledge of user needs and behaviours. In order to dive into the mind of their end users, institutions ...

Stereotype and most-popular recommendations are widely neglected in the research-paper recommender system and digital-library community. In other domains such as movie recommendations and hotel search, however, these ...

This paper discusses two multivariate visualisations which provide insights into topic model distributions across subcollections of a collection of historical textbooks in the context of a digital humanities project. ...

Depending on the news source, a reader can be exposed to a different narrative and conflicting perceptions for the same event. Today, news aggregators help users cope with the large volume of news published daily. However, ...

Gamification is being applied more and more to information systems. Many developers apply similar strategies for the gamification of tasks. A benchmark conducted in 22 mobile apps containing gamification elements showed ...

While much is known about how Twitter is used for specific tasks or by particular groups of users, we understand surprisingly little about how the service is used generally on a daily basis. To learn more about general ...

This paper describes the Reference Architecture of the enhanced VRE (e-VRE), a Virtual Research Environment defined in the context of the VRE4EIC Project, funded by EU H2020 e-Infrastructure program. e-VRE is designed ...

In an online experiment using a representative sample of the German online population (n = 1,000), we compare users’ selection behaviour on two versions of the same Google search engine results page (SERP), one showing ...

In this paper we present an empirical study comparing user studies and expert evaluations based on a specific set of heuristics for evaluating information appliances with a heuristic walkthrough. The study looks at an ...