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Undergraduate research support with optical character recognition apps

محفوظ في:
الحاوية / القاعدة:Reference Services Review vol. 42, no. 2 (2014), p. 336-350
المؤلف الرئيسي: Hahn, Jim
منشور في:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
الموضوعات:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Illinois
United States > US
Software
Librarians
Design
OCR
Higher education
Research & development > R&D
Academic libraries
Library collections
Library resources
Learning
Books
Application programming interface
Computer science
Graduate students
Semantics
Access to information
Library management
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Literature reviews
Scholarly communication
Libraries
Applications programs
Optical character recognition
Mobile computing
Students
Qualitative analysis
Iterative methods
Searching
Ideograph recognition
Development studies
Quantitative analysis
Prototypes
Qualitative research
College students
Research methodology
Assignment
Feedback
Undergraduate students
Application
Personality
Acknowledgment
Resources
Formative evaluation
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مستخلص:Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to report results of a formative usability study that investigated first-year student use of an optical character recognition (OCR) mobile application (app) designed to help students find resources for course assignments. The app uses textual content from the assignment sheet to suggest relevant library resources of which students may not be aware. Design/methodology/approach - Formative evaluation data are collected to inform the production level version of the mobile application and to understand student use models and requirements for OCR software in mobile applications. Findings - Mobile OCR apps are helpful for undergraduate students searching known titles of books, general subject areas or searching for help guide content developed by the library. The results section details how student feedback shaped the next iteration of the app for integration as a Minrva module. Research limitations/implications - This usability paper is not a large-scale quantitative study, but seeks to provide deep qualitative research data for the specific mobile interface studied, the Text-shot prototype. Practical implications - The OCR application is designed to help students learn about availability of library resources based on scanning (e.g. taking a picture, or "Text-shot") of an assignment sheet, a course syllabus or other course-related handouts. Originality/value - This study contributes a new area of application development for libraries, with research methods that are useful for other mobile development studies.
تدمد:0090-7324
2054-1716
DOI:10.1108/RSR-09-2013-0045
المصدر:Library Science Database