Collaborative Technologies and Applications for Interactive Information Design: Emerging Trends in User Experiences: Emerging Trends in User Experiences

Rummler, Scott · Ng, Kwong Bor

ago 2009 · IGI Global

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Collaboration used during technological development often has a focus on user-centered design and rapid prototyping, with a strong people-orientation.

Collaboration Technologies and Application for Interactive Design: Emerging Trends in User Experiences covers a wide range of emerging topics in collaboration, Web 2.0, and social computing, with a focus on technologies that impact the user experience. This cutting-edge reference source provides the latest international findings useful to practitioners, researchers, and academicians involved in education, ontologies, open source communities, and trusted networks.

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Scott Rummler (laserthread.com) holds a Master of Science in information and library science from Pratt Institute, a Master of Fine Art from Rochester Institute of Technology, a computer certificate in Internet technology from Baruch College, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, and did an internship at Merrill Lynch. He is a business consultant and designer in New York City in the areas of information architecture and user experience design. His areas of focus include social networking/collaboration, business consulting for distressed industy sectors, financial applications, metrics improvement for online publications, e-business for the insurance industry, and healthcare information management. He has worked for clients including Sapient, Razorfish, Hearst Digital, Schering-Plough, and Standard & Poor's. He has published articles in the areas of information architecture and library science.

Kwong Bor Ng (Ph D) is an associate professor teaching at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY. He has also been a consultant for various research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr Ng’s teaching and research areas are in the technical and technological aspects of metadata and information retrieval in the context of digital libraries environment. Dr. Ng has published more than 20 refereed papers in the most prestigious information science research journals, like Journal of The American Society for Information Science & Technology, and Information Processing & Management. His most recent book publications include: (1) Using XML, published by Neal-Schuman in 2007; (2) Collaborative Technologies and Applications for Interactive Design, co-edited with S. Rummler, published by Information Science Reference in 2009; and (3) Digitization in the Real World, co-edited with J. Kucsma, published by Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2011. [Editor]