Here you will find research articles by some of the staff here at Oracle. These articles vary in their scope and material, but they will give you a glimpse into how we think and what we are thinking about.
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Information Visualization |
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Selecting the Best Graph Based on Data, Tasks, and User Roles |
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Enterprise software developers and product managers often have difficulty selecting appropriate graph types for business users of applications. Existing solutions for organizing graph types are not adequately focused... |
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Enterprise Network Monitoring Using Treemaps |
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Treemaps may provide significant advantages over tabular data in corporate enterprise applications, due to their inherent ability to support users' integration of multiple dimensions of information. This study investigated... |
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Wide Screen Display Technology |
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Evaluating User Expectations for Widescreen Content Layout |
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Corporate large display usage is rapidly increasing due to lower costs and the promise of high worker productivity. In light of this, a formative evaluation of content layout and expansion in large browser windows... |
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Developing Application Design Guidelines for Large and Multiple Displays |
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Enterprise use of large and multiple displays will soon dramatically increase due to increased availability, lower prices, and the potential for enhanced employee productivity and satisfaction. Current enterprise application... |
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Design Research |
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Best Practices and Future Visions for Search User Interfaces |
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The authors describe a set of best practices that were developed to assist in the design of search user interfaces. Search user interfaces represent a challenging design domain because novices who have no desire to learn... |
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Why structure and genre matter for users of digital information |
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In an effort to understand the impact of designing for digital genres on users' mental representations of structure, a two-phase study was conducted. In phase 1, six expert news readers and a panel of HCI... |
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Usability Research |
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Capturing Longitudinal Usability: What really affects user performance over time? |
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In this Special Interest Group (SIG) the attendees discussed methods for capturing usability data over time. Specifically, they shared industry best practices, brainstormed alternative solutions, as well as compared... |
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