RESEARCH AT TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY | |
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| Name: | Diane Neal, PhD |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Department: | Library and Information Studies |
| Email address: | dneal@mail.twu.edu |
| Description of research activities: Dr. Neal’s research focuses on information retrieval system design. Specifically, she is interested in the usability of online information retrieval systems and the representations used for the documents in the system, especially images and moving images. Her dissertation, “News photography image retrieval practices: locus of control in two contexts”, investigated photojournalists’ preferred methods of image retrieval and representation as well as digital archiving issues surrounding their image retrieval systems. She also performs usability testing on library-related Web sites and library automation systems. | |
| Keywords: Information retrieval, usability, user-centered design, indexing, image retrieval, library automation | |
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