Stanford University’s Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) is working in partnership with Battelle Memorial Institute and IBM Watson Research Center to develop a suite of technologies for information extraction, knowledge representation & reasoning, and human-information interaction, in unison entitled “Knowledge Associates for Novel Intelligence” (KANI). We have developed an integrated analytic environment composed of a collection of analyst associates, software components that aid the user at different stages of the information analysis process. An important part of our participatory design process has been to ensure our technologies and designs are tightly integrate with the needs and requirements of our end users, To this end, we perform a sequence of evaluations towards the end of the development process that ensure the technologies are both functional and usable. This paper reports on that process.
Revised: November 2, 2006 |
Published: November 7, 2005
Citation
McCool R., A.J. Cowell, and D.A. Thurman. 2005.End-User Evaluations of Semantic Web Technologies. In Proceedings of the ISWC 2005 Workshop on End User Semantic Web Interaction, 6th-10th November 2005, Galway, Ireland. Second International Workshop on Interaction Design and the Semantic Web, edited by A. Bernstein, I. Androutsopoulos, D. Degler, B. McBride, 7 pages. Zürich:University of Zürich. PNWD-SA-7109.