Catch a Wave:

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Catch a Wave What User Studies Tell Us About
the Water
Henry Pisciotta, Penn State University
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Catch a Wave What User Studies Tell Us About
the Water
What wins acceptance? Has acceptance been
won? So what do we do?
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What Wins Acceptance?
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Moores Technology Adoption Model
Late Majority
Early Majority
Early Adopters
Innovators
Laggards
Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm. (New York
HarperBusiness, 1991 1999).
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A Few User Studies
DLF Digital Library Federation / Outsell, Inc
survey - 2002 - all media - multiple schools
n100s UDR Ctr. for studies in Higher Ed.,
Berkeley, Use of Digital Resources survey -
2004 - all media - multiple schools
n1000 VIUS Visual Image User Study survey,
Penn State 2002 - images only 1 school
n1000
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Has Acceptance Been Won?
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Wellpeople use pictures

• in whatever form
• 4th most-used format for teaching (of 17) (behind
  books, journals, news) (DLF)
• 7th most used format for undergrads (DLF)
• 75 of faculty 55 of students (VIUS)

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And, increasingly, digital pictures

• 65 of faculty grads (DLF)
• 70 to 80 of faculty (Berkeley UDR)
• 75 of plan to increase use of pictures
• (VIUS)

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Which people?

• Arts / Humanities / Biological Sciences
• highest of picture users (DLF)
• Arts Architecture
• most pictures per capita (VIUS)
• Earth Sciences
• most digital pictures per capital
• twice as many picture users as Arts
  Architecture (VIUS)
• Agriculture
• twice as many picture users as Arts
  Architecture (VIUS)
• and many others

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Which sources?

• Licensed Databases
• Locally Produced Databases
• Personal Collections
• Search Engines

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Which sources?

• Licensed Databases
• (1 to 3 million images)
• 3 to 10 use them (VIUS)
• 20 of picture-using faculty (DLF)
• (also RLG/AGIT)
• 10 of picture-using students (DLF)

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Which sources?
Locally Produced Databases ???
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Which sources?

• Personal Collections
• (Sources and not sources)
• 0 to 17 of faculty grads (DLF)
• 32 of faculty (or 51 ?) (VIUS)
• 24 of students (VIUS)
• 64 to 71 of faculty have own digital resources
  collection (UDR)

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Which sources?

• Search Engines
• (billions of pictures)
• Most used for any form of information
• Most used source for digital images
• (though much less than libraries for analog
  pics) (DLF)
• 4/5ths of faculty use for images (RLG/AGIT)
• (CDL/IDP)

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So what do we do?
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So what do we do?

• Expose collections to search engines?
• Work more closely with personal collections?
• Focus on high quality?
• Find a content niche?
• Collaborate

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So what do we do?
Numbers dont use pictures. People use
pictures. we needed a methodology that would
allow us to explore with our partners, not to
investigate them. - Nitecki Rando (2004)
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So what do we do?
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