title: Managing personal documents with a digital library

authors: Jaballah, Imene

subjects: computer science

abstract: This paper presents a desktop system for managing personal documents. The documents can be of many types—text, spreadsheets, images, multimedia—and are organized in a personal “digital library”. The interface supports browsing over a wide variety of document metadata, as well as full-text searching. This extensive browsing facility addresses a significant flaw in digital library and file management software, both of which typically provide less support for browsing than for searching, and support relatively inflexible browsing methods. Three separate usability studies of a prototype—an expert evaluation, a learnability evaluation, and a diary study—were conducted to suggest design refinements, which were then incorporated into the final system.

text: Managing personal documents with a digital library This paper presents a desktop system for managing personal documents. The documents can be of many types—text, spreadsheets, images, multimedia—and are organized in a personal “digital library”. The interface supports browsing over a wide variety of document metadata, as well as full-text searching. This extensive browsing facility addresses a significant flaw in digital library and file management software, both of which typically provide less support for browsing than for searching, and support relatively inflexible browsing methods. Three separate usability studies of a prototype—an expert evaluation, a learnability evaluation, and a diary study—were conducted to suggest design refinements, which were then incorporated into the final system.

year: 2005

title: Work overload, parental demand, perceived organizational support, family support, and work-family conflict among New Zealand and Malaysian academics

authors: Nasurdin, Aizzat Mohd

abstract: Relationships between work overload and parental demands with work-family conflict were investigated among New Zealand and Malaysian academics. In addition, social support from the work and family domains were explored as moderators in the proposed relationships. Two public universities, one located in New Zealand and the other in Malaysia, participated in the study. Analysis of data gathered from 202 academic staff from New Zealand and 183 from Malaysia demonstrated similar findings concerning the positive relationships between work overload and work-to-family interference across the two samples. Contrary to prediction, parental demand was found to be unrelated to family-to-work interference in both samples. In addition, no evidence emerged for the moderating effects of perceived organizational support and the two forms of family support. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

text: Work overload, parental demand, perceived organizational support, family support, and work-family conflict among New Zealand and Malaysian academics Relationships between work overload and parental demands with work-family conflict were investigated among New Zealand and Malaysian academics. In addition, social support from the work and family domains were explored as moderators in the proposed relationships. Two public universities, one located in New Zealand and the other in Malaysia, participated in the study. Analysis of data gathered from 202 academic staff from New Zealand and 183 from Malaysia demonstrated similar findings concerning the positive relationships between work overload and work-to-family interference across the two samples. Contrary to prediction, parental demand was found to be unrelated to family-to-work interference in both samples. In addition, no evidence emerged for the moderating effects of perceived organizational support and the two forms of family support. Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

year: 2012

title: Early intervention services: Effectively supporting Maori children and their families

authors: Berryman, Mere

subjects: Early Childhood

abstract: This paper examines Early Intervention (EI) service provision from within one Ministry of Education region in New Zealand. It does this in order to better understand what works well and what needs to change if children from Maori families, of Early Childhood age, are to be provided with the most effective EI services. By engaging with Maori families in group-focused interviews-asconversation, and then with their service providers, about their experiences of working together, researchers learned about what could provide effective services for other Maori families in similar situations.

text: Early intervention services: Effectively supporting Maori children and their families This paper examines Early Intervention (EI) service provision from within one Ministry of Education region in New Zealand. It does this in order to better understand what works well and what needs to change if children from Maori families, of Early Childhood age, are to be provided with the most effective EI services. By engaging with Maori families in group-focused interviews-asconversation, and then with their service providers, about their experiences of working together, researchers learned about what could provide effective services for other Maori families in similar situations.

year: 2011