Co-browsing the Greenstone digital library collection

Context: Social interaction is an important aspect of a successful web page. Social network sites attract many people worldwide. The social interaction aspect is missing from digital libraries, including the Greenstone Digital Library. Objectives: This study investigates how two distant users exchange information while in front of the computer and browsing the same Greenstone Digital library collection, in real time, and identifies the features that support their needs. Methods: To answer the research questions, an observation methodology is applied to gain more insight into users’ information-seeking behaviour for an online DL. Two recording elements were used to gather data from a sample of eight pairs of university students (n=16). The two elements were video camera (with audio) and screen capture. Further, a questionnaire was used to collect data about the workload during the session. Results: The data obtained was analysed using conversation and content analysis methods. The findings of this user study related to the metadata presentation, referencing information and search box activities. A Co-browsing GDL system is proposed based on the requirements derived from findings from the user study and also the related works. Evaluation: A usability test is used to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of the proposed system. Think aloud and questionnaire methods are used to gather the data of this usability test. Results: The result of this study “debug” the proposed Co-browsing GDL system and explore issues related to communication and private works, with it having become apparent through the study that improvements can be made to some parts of the system presentation. Conclusions: The findings of the thesis research have been used to provide recommendations for future work to develop and implement a Co-browsing Greenstone digital library (GDL) system

Hollins Columns (2001 Apr 13)

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Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations

In this paper, we investigate the implications of the philosophical considerations presented in Nozick‘s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by examining group formation in a laboratory setting where subjects engage in both cooperative and conflictual interactions. We endow participants with a commodity used to generate earnings, plunder others, or protect against plunder. In our primary treatment, we allow participants to form groups to pool their resources. We conduct a baseline comparison treatment that does not allow group formation. We find that allowing subjects to organize themselves into groups does not lead to more cooperation and may in fact exacerbate tendencies towards conflict

Textile Society of America Newsletter 30:2 — Fall 2018

Letter from the Editor Letter from the President TSA NewsWelcome New TSA Board MembersOur Focus on Diversity: Vision StatementR. L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book AwardDiedrick Brackens Honored with 2018 Brandford/Elliott Award International ReportFeatured ExhibitionsCentre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT)OpportunityThe University of North Texas to Close Fibers Program by Spring 2019 TSA SymposiumThe Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global in picturesTSA Members\u27 ExhibitionReports from Student & New Professional Awardees A Long-Delayed Professional Conversation Book ReviewsArt, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern GhanaPolychromatic Screen PrintingRug MoneySpider Woman\u27s Children: Navajo Weavers Today Film Reviews In Memoriam: Surayia Rahman Featured ExhibitionsContemporary Muslim FashionsHelena Hernmarck: Weaving in ProgressLia Cook: Inner Trace

A Java Based Multimedia Distributed Computer Supported Collaborated World (CSCW) Environment Over the Internet

Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and distributed computing have been termed as the next paradigm of computing which allows users to interact and collaborate with each other seamlessly over the network. As a result, many collaborative distributed CSCW system have been proposed and developed. However, most of the system fall short in providing platform independent system that address many real-world needs of users working together in a CSCW system. In this paper, efforts have been focused on creating a Distributed Computer Supported Collaborative Work environment for efficient collaborative editing and interaction among the participating users over the internet that support asynchronous and synchronous collaboration. Java has been used developed language

Formations of the Sikh Community in Ireland

This dissertation examines the formation of the Sikh community in Ireland by providing a brief historical account of the migration of Sikhs to Ireland, as well as by offering a discussion of the key challenges faced in Ireland by Sikh migrants along with their responses to these particular socio-cultural and political contexts in attempting to forge a ‘community’ in Ireland. The research draws extensively upon an oral history and photography project entitled A Sikh Face in Ireland that was commissioned by, and carried out through, the Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) between 2007-2010. The interviews I conducted during this project as research assistant to Dr Glenn Jordan, who created the photographic exhibit, form a substantial methodological component towards the analysis and insights developed throughout this dissertation. In addition to the interviews, the discussions here are grounded in lo ng-term and sustained participant observation in the Dublin gurdwara over the last three years, which constitutes the major field site for this research. This dissertation offers a particularly located and ground-level perspective on the many issues around migration, multi- culturalism, and questions of diversity that have been central to Irish public life over the last two decades, informed by the life experiences of a community that has suffered widespread racial abuse for sporting external signifiers like beards and turbans identified with Muslims in an increasingly Islamophobic European, indeed Irish context. Through this research I hope to present the Sikh communities’ experiences and perspectives of migration as insights that might productively influence the depth and range of sensibilities towards migration and migrants in Ireland and outside, both among the general public as well as at policy level. The dissertation also offers Sikh community a documented account of their presence in Ireland and their contribution to Irish society by highlighting the proactive role that migrant-led community organisations (such as ISC) can play in civic engagement, intercultural dialogue, and towards establishing migrant support networks.The dissertation consists of four chapters: Chapter One outlines the methodological approach to the research and locates the main theoretical concerns within relevant literature; Chapter Two offers an outline of the history of Sikh migration to Ireland; Chapter Three is a discussion of t he key challenges faced by Sikh migrants in Ireland; and Chapter Four is a analysis of the strategies employed by the community in coping with and adapting to life in a foreign land. The focus of the thesis is the formations of the Sikh community. It does not directly address broader questions, such as racialization of non-white bodies, though these issues do figure in the analyses. While the dissertation includes several photographs that were taken during the research for A Sikh Face in Ireland along with archival photographs from family albums shared by the research participants, these are used in an illustrative capacity to vivify issues under discussion