All Outputs (6)

Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. (2018)
Journal Article
Cleverley, P., & Muir, L. (2018). Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. Knowledge Organization, 45(2), 152-169. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2018-2-152

The study investigates whether existing Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for strong and hesitant forward-looking sentiment could be improved to detect social phenomena. Five judges identified examples of strong/hesitant forward-looking sentiment... Read More about Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena..

Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance (2015)
Journal Article
Cleverley, P. H., Burnett, S., & Muir, L. (2017). Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(1), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1

No prior research has been identified which investigates the causal factors for workplace exploratory search task performance. The impact of user, task and environmental factors on user satisfaction and task performance was investigated through a mix... Read More about Exploratory information searching in the enterprise: A study of user satisfaction and task performance.

The case for a risk-assessed approach to organisational records management in the Oil and Gas sector (2014)
Journal Article
Muir, L. J., Cousins, F., & Laing, A. (2014). The case for a risk-assessed approach to organisational records management in the Oil and Gas sector. Information Research, 19,

Introduction. Processes and practices for information management service delivery, including retention, retrieval and disposal of documents and records, are not easily quantified for benchmarking and performance improvement. Method. A mainly qualita... Read More about The case for a risk-assessed approach to organisational records management in the Oil and Gas sector.

The case for e-book literacy: undergraduate students' experience with e-books for course work. (2013)
Journal Article
Muir, L. J., & Hawes, G. (2013). The case for e-book literacy: undergraduate students' experience with e-books for course work. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 39, 260-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2013.01.002

This paper investigates how electronic books (e-books) are used for scholarly activity. It focuses on the end-users of e-books in a case study which aimed to establish how scholars use and learn from e-books and the limitations of academic e-books. T... Read More about The case for e-book literacy: undergraduate students' experience with e-books for course work..

Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population (2009)
Journal Article
Muir, L. J., Veale, T., & Nichol, A. (2009). Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population. Library and information research, 33, 90-109

This paper reviews previous research on e-books and the information seeking behaviour of scholars. It presents the initial findings from an in-depth study of the behaviour and experiences of seven students (including students with dyslexia and visual... Read More about Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population.

Perception of Sign Language and its application to visual communications for deaf people. (2005)
Journal Article
Muir, L. J., & Richardson, I. E. G. (2005). Perception of Sign Language and its application to visual communications for deaf people. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 10, 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eni037

Video communication systems for deaf people are limited in terms of quality and performance. Analysis of visual attention mechanisms for sign language may enable optimization of video coding systems for deaf users. Eye-movement tracking experiments w... Read More about Perception of Sign Language and its application to visual communications for deaf people..