Review of Information Science

• Visualisation, multimodality and traditional graphical user interfaces
  (Jürgen Krause)

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Metaphors
2.1 More precisely: What are metaphors?
2.2 Controls based on metaphors
2.3. Conclusion regarding metaphors
3. Visual formalisms as an alternative to metaphor formation
4. Natural mapping
4. Summary
6. Literature

 

 

 

                              Articles (Vol. 2, Issue 1)

 

• Design and Implementation of a Web-based Electronic Refereeing System
  (Zongdong Zhang)
  »article

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The refereeing process: a specification
2.1 Requirements analysis
2.2 Work flow analysis of the traditional refereeing process
3. Implementation
3.1 General aspect
3.2 Description of the system functions
3.2.1 Display various information
3.2.2 Support tasks / sub-processes of the refereeing process
3.2.3 Other functions
4. A brief discussion
References

• A review of the information and telecommunication policy of the European Union
  (Christian Schlögl)
  »article

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The EU and the Information Society
3. Definition
4. The information society - open questions
5. Summary
Acknowledgement
References
Footnotes

 

• Multimedia Startup in Germany? Some Findings of the TAB Project on "Multimedia"
  (Herbert Paschen & Ulrich Riehm)
  »article

Contents

1. Selected Background Information on the Situation in Germany
1.1 Telecommunications
1.2 Broadcasting
1.3 Computer Networks and Online Services
2. The TAB Multimedia Project
3. Multimedia - Term, Limits, Markets
4. Selected Results and Issues for Discussion
4.1 Access and universal service
4.2 The Economic Efficiency and the Effectiveness of Multimedia
4.3 Transformation of the Media
References

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                                Articles: Issue 2 - Oct 1996

• Is Electronic Information Worth More?
  An Empirical Comparison of the Usability of Printed and Electronic Versions of the Same Information (Ulrich Riehm) »article

Contents

1. Research Context: Comparative Studies of Media
1.1 Information Retrieval
1.2 Reading on Screen
1.3 News Reception
1.4 Learning with Electronic Media
1.5 Electronic Books and Hypertexts
1.6 Conclusions
2. Background and Context of the PEB-PRODA Study
3. Approach of the Study
3.1 Issues of the Study
3.2 Design and Performance of the Study
4. Results
4.1 Non-use or Use
4.2 Duration, Extent and Types of Use
4.3 Problems of Use
4.4 Information Reception in the Media Compared
4.5 Evaluation of Usability
5. Conclusions
5.1 Summarizing the Results and Discussion
5.2 Some Methodological Remarks
References

• The (Surplus) Value of Scientific Communication (Gerhard Fröhlich) »article

Contents

1 On the shoulders of giants and dwarfs
2 A jungle of data, a desert of concepts - Conceptsand models of scientific communication research
3 Power and information: sciences as social action fields

3.1. Insiders and outsiders: sciences as social figurations (Elias)
3.2 Symbolic capital of reputation: sciences as fields of competition (Bourdieu)
3.3 Privileging the known ("the more, the more"): the "Matthew effect" (Merton)
3.4 Fraud and deception in the sciences
3.5 From the production of knowledge to science as rhetoric

4 Inherent surplus value of scientific communication
5 Surplus value realization - Diffusion through specialized information systems and computer networks?
6 Literature

 

• Object-centered Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval
  (Jiri Panyr) »article

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Problem
2.1 Object-centered knowledge representation
2.2 Predicative (declarative) and associative knowledge
2.3 Creation of subconcepts and superconcepts
3. Object-centered knowledge representation and automatic classification
3.1 Suitable methods
3.2 Note on the manipulation and retrieval of generated structures
4. Examples
References

• Success Factor Research in Information Provision: Concepts, Models and Results (Josef Herget) »article

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Success factor research
3. Success factor research in information provision


3.1 Approaches
3.2. Models
3.3. Research design

4. Results


4.1. Methods of study
4.2. Structure data
4.3. Success factors

5. Prospects
Footnotes
Literature

• Profit Impact of Information Technology (Thomas Weitzendorf/ Harald Hiller) »article

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Definitions
3 Components of the Model


System Effectiveness - User Information Satisfaction (UIS)
Organizational Conversion
Top Management Commitment
Organizational Climate

4 Building the Model
5 Hypotheses
6 Evaluation Methodology
7 Empirical Test
8 The Questionnaire
9 Results


9.1. Statistical Mean
9.2. Results of the Hypotheses

10 Discussion of Results
11 Footnotes
12 Literature

                              Volume: 1 (1996)

•                                       Issue 1 - Jul 1996