This thesis examines the human issues underlying the design and usability of electronic
text systems. In so doing it develops a framework for the conceptualisation of these
issues that aims to guide designers of electronic texts in their attempts to produce usable
systems.
The thesis commences with a review of the traditional human factors literature on
electronic text according to three basic themes: its concern with perceptual,
manipulatory and structural issues. From this examination it is concluded that
shortcomings in translating this work into design result from the adoption of overly
narrow uni-disciplinary views of reading taken from cognitive psychology and
information science which are inappropriate to serve the needs of electronic text
designers.
In an attempt to provide a more relevant description of the reading process a series of
studies examining readers and their views as well as uses of texts is reported. In the
first, a repertory grid based investigation revealed that all texts can be described in
reader-relvant terms according to three criteria: why a text is read, what a text contains
and how it is read. These criteria then form the basis of two investigations of reader-text
interaction using academic journals and user manuals.
The results of these studies highlighted the need to consider readers' models of a
document's structure in discussing text usability. Subsequent experimental work on
readers' models of academic articles demonstrated not only that such models are
important aspects of reader-text interaction but that data of this form could usefully be
employed in the design of an electronic text system.
The proposed framework provides a broad, qualitative model of the important issues
for designers to consider when developing a product It consists of four interactive
elements that focus attention on aspects of reading that have been identified as central to
usability. Simple tests of the utility and validity of the framework are reported and it is
shown that the framework both supports reasoned analysis and subsequent prediction
of reader behaviour as well as providing a parsimonious account of their verbal
utterances while reading. The thesis concludes with an analysis of the likely uses of
such a framework and the potential for electronic text systems in an increasingly
information-hungry world.

A framework for the design of usable electronic text (electronic text)

Passer d'un référentien de compétences à une ingénierie de formation

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Enquête sur les compétences documentaires et informationnelles des étudiants qui accèdent à l'enseignement supérieur en Communauté française de Belgique : Rapport de Synthèse

This book is a reference book in French language speaking with a new edition. It concerns the need of information, how information is used, what people need in terms of information.

Le besoin d'information. Formulation, négociation, diagnostic/ Yves-François Le Coadic. - 2e éd. refondue. - Paris: ADBS Éditions, 2007

Mesusages informationnels avec la pratique massive du copier-coller, le reflexe Wikipedia ou la « googlisation », arrivee de la generation « native du numerique » et exacerbation des clivages entre culture numerique et culture universitaire, absence de veritable culture informationnelle… : la question de la formation des etudiants a la maitrise de l'information, et surtout celle des contenus de cette formation, se pose aujourd'hui de maniere particulierement vive.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02383348/document

Former les étudiants à la maîtrise de l'information : sur quels contenus ?

Dans une societe aujourd'hui confrontee au « deluge informationnel » engendre par l'essor d'Internet, il est curieux de constater que les etudiants n'ont qu'une connaissance empirique de la recherche d'information. Face au contexte general de « Googlelisation » des pratiques de recherche des etudiants et au contexte specifique de l'IFPEK (Institut de Formation en Pedicurie-podologie, Ergotherapie, Masso-kinesitherapie) qui souhaite initier les etudiants a la demarche de recherche, la question de l'acquisition de competences a la recherche de l'information par ces derniers est fortement posee aux documentalistes. Ce travail s'inscrit dans une reflexion qui pose la question des usages de la recherche d'information des etudiants. Il se propose de degager les competences de recherche d'information produites en situation, afin d'engager la reflexion sur des actions de formation qui prennent en compte les connaissances et competences tangibles des etudiants.

https://memsic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/mem_00526325/document

Olivier Honoré

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Former les étudiants à la recherche d'information par l'analyse de l'activité