George Buchanan - Publications

Editor

Proceedings of the Usability for Digital Libraries Workshop, Blandford, A., Buchanan, G., editors, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002.

“Usability of Digital Libraries,” Blandford, A., Buchanan, G., Jones, M., editors, Special Issue, Journal of Digital Libraries, March 2004.

International Journal Publications

“Designing to change users' information seeking behaviour: a case study.” Stelmaszewska, H., Blandford, A., Buchanan, G. In S. Chen & G. Magoulas (Eds.) Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems. Information Science Publishing. (in press)

“Changing the Pace of Search: Supporting ‘Background’ Information Seeking”. Jones, M., Buchanan, G., Cheng, T-C., & Jain, P.. JASIS Special Issue on Best Practices in Search. Edition in preparation, 2004.

“Improving web search on small screen devices”. Jones, M., Buchanan, G. & Thimbleby, H., Interacting with Computers, 14(2003), 479-495

“Exploring Small Screen Digital Library Access with the Greenstone Digital Library,” Buchanan, G., Jones, M., Marsden, G., Proc. European Conference on Digital Libraries, Springer Verlag, 2002, 583–596

“Improving Web Interaction on Small Displays,” Jones, M., Marsden, G., Mohd-Nasir, N., Boone, K. & Buchanan, G., Computer Networks 31:1129–1137 (Selected paper from Proc. 8th WWW conference).

“Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries,” Buchanan, G., Blandford, A., Jones, M., & Thimbleby, H., Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2539 , Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries 2002: 13-24. (Extended from 1st Workshop on Visual Interfaces for Digital Libraries).

International Conference Publications

“Information Seeking by Humanities Scholars"”, Buchanan,G., Cunningham, S.J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., European Conference on Digital Libraries,2005.

“Alerting in Digital Libraries”, Buchanan, G., Hinze, A., Proc. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005

“A Generic Framework for Building Digital Library Collections”, Buchanan, G., Bainbridge, D., Don, K., Witten, I., Proc. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005.

“Supporting Information Structuring in a Digital Library”, Buchanan, G., Blandford, A., Thimbleby, H., Jones, M., Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, in press.

“Dynamic Digital Library Construction and Configuration”, Bainbridge, D., Don, K., Buchanan, G., Witten, I.H., Proceedings of the European Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, in press.

“Integrating Information Seeking and Structuring: Exploring the Role of Spatial Hypertexts in a Digital Library”, Buchanan, G., Blandford, A., Jones, M., Thimbleby, H., Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2004, in press.

“From Sit-Forward to Lean Back: Using a Mobile Device to Vary Interactive Pace”, Jones, M., Buchanan, G., Jain, P., Marsden, M., (2003), Proc. Mobile HCI, 2003, 390-394.

“Sorting out Searching on Small Screen Devices,” Jones, M., Buchanan, G., Thimbleby, H., Proc. Mobile HCI, Springer Verlag, 2002, 81–94.

“Greenstone as a Platform for Distributed Digital Library Publications,” Bainbridge, D., Buchanan, G., McPherson, J., Jones, S., Mahoui, A., Witten, I., European Conference on Digital Libraries, Darmstadt, Germany, 2001, pp137–148. Springer-Verlag.

“Dynamic digital libraries for children,” Theng, Y. L., Mohd-Nasir, N., Buchanan, G., Fields, B., Thimbleby, H. & Cassidy, N., Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001: pp406–415. ACM Press.

“Improving mobile internet usability,” Buchanan, G., Jones, M., Thimbleby, H., Farrant, S., Pazzani, M., 2001. Proceedings of the Web 2001 Conference, Hong Kong, 2001, pp673–680. ACM Press.

“Children as Design Partners and Testers for a Children’s Digital Library,” Theng, Y.L., Mohd Nasir, N., Buchanan, G., Bainbridge, D., Thimbleby, H. & Jones, M. 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Fourth European Conference ECDL’00, Borbinha, J. and Baker, T. (Eds.), pp249–258, Springer.

“Designing a Children's Digital Library With and For Children,” ACM Conference of Digital Libraries 2000, Theng, Y. L., Mohd-Nasir, N., Thimbleby, H., Buchanan, G. & Jones, M.

“Scalable Browsing for Large Collections: A Case Study,” Paynter, Witten, I., Cunningham, S. J. & Buchanan, G., ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, San Antonio, 2000, pp215–223.

“An Evaluation of WebTwig—a site outliner for handheld Web access,” Jones, M., Buchanan, G., Mohd-Naisr, N. 1999, Proc. International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, pp343–348, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999.

“Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries,” Theng, Y. L,. Duncker, E., Mohd-Nasir N., Buchanan G. & Thimbleby H., Third European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 99) pp167–183.

“Improving Web Interaction on Small Displays,” Jones, M., Marsden, G., Mohd-Nasir, N., Boone, K. & Buchanan, G. 1999, Proceedings of the 8th World Wide Web Conference, pp51–60.

National Conference Publications

“A Stable View of the Hyperactive Web,” Buchanan, G., Marsden, G. E., Tan, T., Theng, Y.L. & Thimbleby, H., 1999, Active Web Conference, Stafford, UK 1999, pp27–34.

Articles

“Workshop Report: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries at JCDL’02”, Blandford, A., Buchanan, G., SIGIR Forum, 36(2), pp. 83-89, 2002.

“Report on the Sixth European Conference on Digital Libaries”, Buchanan, G., Dlib Magazine, October 2002 online at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/buchanan/10buchanan.html

Other Refereed Publications

“Exploring the Digital Library use of Humanities Academics”, Buchanan, G., Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., Blandford, A.., Users in the Wild Workshop, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005.

“An Alerting Service for the Greenstone Digital Library”, Hinze, A., Buchanan, G., 5th International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems, ICISC, 2005

“Expression and Interpretation in Spatial Hypertext”, Buchanan G. 4th Workshop on Spatial Hypertext, ACM Hypertext Conference, Santa Cruz, 2004.

“Spatial Hypertext on the Small Screen”. Buchanan G. & Jones, M. 2nd Mobile Ubiquitous Information Access Workshop, Glasgow, 2004.

“Using a Mobile Device to Vary the Pace of Search”, Jones, M., Jain, P. & Buchanan, G & Marsden, G. International Symposium on Mobile HCI, Udine, Italy, September 2003.

“Changing the Pace of Search – Supporting Background Information Needs”. Jones, M., Jain P., Jones, M., Jain P., Buchanan, G., CHI 2003 Workshop on Search. Florida, April 2003.

“Spatial hypertext as a reader tool in digital libraries,” Buchanan, G., Blandford, A., Jones, M. & Thimbleby, H. 1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 2001.

“Designing for Small Screen Interaction,” Jones M., Buchanan G., Information Design for Mobile Web Services Workshop, 9th International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, May 2000.

“Search Interfaces for Handheld Mobile Devices,” Jones, M. & Buchanan, G., Poster Proceedings, 9th International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, 2000, pp86–87.

“How do we Build Web Sites Fit for Purpose?” Buchanan, G., Marsden, G. E., Thimbleby, H. & Theng, Y. L., Human-Computer Interaction, Interact’99 Volume II:11–12.

“Dynamic Metadata for Monitoring Digital Library Management,” Buchanan, G., Marsden, G. E. & Thimbleby, H. 1999, Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley CA, pp219–220.

“Meaningful Link Verification for Management and Maintenance of Web Sites,” Buchanan, G., Marsden, G. E. & Thimbleby, H., 1999, 8th International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto (WWW8 1999), pp170–171, Poster Proceedings.

“A Site-based outliner for Small Screen Web Access” Jones, M., Marsden, G., Mohd-Nasir, N. & Buchanan, G., 1999, 8th International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto (WWW8 1999), Poster Proceedings 156–157.

Professional Activities

Co-Chair, Context Aware Mobile Systems Workshop, COOPIS, 2005

Co-Chair, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Usability Workshop, 2002

Program Committe, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2006

Program Committee, Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2004

Program Committee, Mobile HCI, Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, 2003

Program Committee, Second and Third International Workshops on Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries, 2002, 2003

Reviewer, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002-2005.

Selected Invited Talks

British Library/Library of Congress METS Opening Day, July 12th 2004.

Awards

ACM Ted Nelson Award, 2004

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacturers, 2001