Mu, Xiangming and Luo, Lili Virtual Reference for Video Collections: System Infrastructure, User Interface and Pilot User Study., 2005 . In 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Charlotte (US), 28 October - 2 November 2005. [Conference paper]
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A new video-based Virtual Reference (VR) tool called VideoHelp was designed and developed to support video navigation escorting, a function that enables librarians to co-navigate a digital video with patrons in the web-based environment. A client/server infrastructure was adopted for the VideoHelp system and timestamps were used to achieve the video synchronization between the librarians and patrons. A pilot usability study of using VideoHelp prototype in video seeking was conducted and the preliminary results demonstrated that the system is easy to learn and use, and real-time assistance from virtual librarians in video navigation is desirable on a conditional basis.
Item type: | Conference paper |
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Keywords: | virtual reference ; virtual librarians ; digital video |
Subjects: | I. Information treatment for information services > IJ. Reference work. B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. L. Information technology and library technology > LA. Telecommunications. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CD. User training, promotion, activities, education. |
Depositing user: | Norm Medeiros |
Date deposited: | 07 Feb 2006 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:02 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6988 |
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