ANNOTATIONS
Annotation # 1:
Todman, J., & Drysdale, E. (2004). Effects of qualitative
differences in initial and subsequent computer experience on computer anxiety.
computers in Human Behaviour, 20(5), 581.
Obtains a sample of
154 first year students on questions about the frequency and intensity of good
and bad subsequent computer experiences. Results show addictive effects of
good early and later experiences. It says recovery from initial bad
experiences was easy when followed by frequent and high intensity later good
experiences.
Annotation # 2:
Teague, P.E. (2004). Simple informative. Design News,
60(13), 12.
Focuses on the key factors that play a major role in
designing a Web site. Analysis of the web sites of the companies Orbiform Inc.
of Jackson, Michigan and Galil Motion Control of Rocklin, California;
Demonstrates the creation of a clean, simple design so as to make information
access easy.
Annotation # 3:
Hafner, K., & Lyon, M. (1996). Casting the net. Sciences,
36(5), 32.
Focuses on the development of the Internet. Says Robert
Taylor's experiment spawned the Internet; Sees packet switching as the central
concept and cold war fears as the reasons with human brain as the model, with
Advanced Research Projects Agency as the edge, for the development of the
Internet.
Annotation # 4:
Day, R. (2000). Tropes, history, and ethics in professional
discourse and information science. Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, 51(5), 469.
Analyzes the human-computer
interaction and its role in education on information. Focuses on the design
considerations, cognitive aspects and the dynamics of the human-computer
interface; Illustrates a few communication models such as Shannon-Weaver and
Schramm communication models; Describes about Task-action mapping, execution
and evaluation.
Annotation # 5:
Schneider, K.G. (2000). The committee wore pajamas: ALA debuts online chat.
American Libraries, 31(11), 62.
Discusses about the efforts of the American Library Association (ALA) to increase its
offering of electronic communication services. Evaluates the pros and cons of chat technology
by the ALA Electronic Meeting Task Force. Analyses on how electronic participation will
affect attendance at ALA conferences.
Annotation # 6:
Drabenstott, K.M. (2004). Information retrieval systems for end
users: Primetime players that just don't make the grade. Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, 45(2), 173-176.
Explains how the current online information retrieval (IR) systems are inadequate.
Describes the techniques such as facet analysis, ranking algorithms, controlled vocabulary,
search strategies and domain-expert search tasks to improve online IR systems for end-user
access so that users and systems work together.
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