Research Articles

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.

Information Visualization
Selecting the Best Graph Based on Data, Tasks, and User Roles
  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...
 
  Enterprise Network Monitoring Using Treemaps
  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...
 

Wide Screen Display Technology
Evaluating User Expectations for Widescreen Content Layout
  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...
 
  Developing Application Design Guidelines for Large and Multiple Displays
  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...
 

Design Research
Best Practices and Future Visions for Search User Interfaces
  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...
 
  Why structure and genre matter for users of digital information
  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...
 

Usability Research
Capturing Longitudinal Usability: What really affects user performance over time?
  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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