Publications

Usability matters—I’d like to complain about this user experience! (2022)
Lueg, C., Nichols, D. & Twidale, M.
Information Matters, 2(3). https://informationmatters.org/2022/03/usability-matters-id-like-to-complain-about-this-user-experience/
Everyone Everywhere: A distributed and embedded paradigm for usability (2021) @ Research Commons
Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M. & Lueg, C.P.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(10) 1272-1284.
Designing Online Court Forms: Recommendations for Courts and Tribunals in Aotearoa (2021)
Toy-Cronin, B., Nichols, D.M. & Cunningham, S.J.
Legal Research Report, New Zealand Law Foundation / University of Otago. https://hdl.handle.net/10523/12063
Using the HTRC Data Capsule Model to promote reuse and evolution of experimental analysis of digital library data: A case study of topic modeling (2019) @ Research Commons
Bainbridge, D., Nichols, D.M., Hinze, A. & Downie, J.S.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2019). IEEE. 463-4.
Radical research honesty in a post-truth society (2019)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the iConference 2019. https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103140
Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development (2019)
Tennant, J., Beamer, J. E., Bosman, J., Brembs, B., Chung, N., Clement, G., ... Turner, A.
BITTS Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/b4v8p
Testing the promise of access to justice through online courts (2018) @ Research Commons
Toy-Cronin, B., Irvine, B., Nichols, D.M., Cunningham, S.J. & Tkacukova, T.
International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution, 5(1-2) 39-48.
Acquiring metadata to support biographies of museum artefacts (2018) @ Research Commons
Zhao, C., Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2018). LNCS 11279. Springer. 304-315.
Measuring what matters: metrics, incentives and openness (2017)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Webinar for Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG).
Metrics for openness (2017) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(4) 1048-1060.
Measuring the openness of research (2017)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group
Students and their videos: Implications for a video digital library (2016) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M. & Bowen, J.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2016). LNCS 10075. Springer. 37-42.
Supporting gender-neutral digital library creation: a case study using the GenderMag toolkit (2016) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Hinze, A. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2016). LNCS 10075. Springer. 45-50.
What's news? Encounters with news in everyday life: A study of behaviours and attitudes (2016) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M., Hinze. A & Bowen, J.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 17(3) 257-271.
Personal video collection management behavior (2016) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M. & Bowen, J.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'16). ACM. 219-220.
Digital libraries unfurled: supporting the New Zealand flag debate (2015) @ Research Commons
Thomas, B.M., Stewart, J.M., Bainbridge, D., Nichols, D.M., Rogers, W.J. & Holmes, G.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2015). Springer. 330-333.
Digital news resources: An autoethnographic study of news encounters (2015) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M., Hinze, A. & Bowen, J.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2015). Springer. 84-96.
A scientometric analysis of 15 years of CHINZ conferences (2015) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M. & Cunningham, S.J.
Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ 2015). ACM. 73-80.
Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ 2015) (2015)
Hinze, A., Nichols, D.M. and Masoodian, M. (Eds.). ACM.
Social music in cars (2014) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M., Bainbridge, D. & Ali, H.
Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014). 457-462.
Online legacy preservation for humanities researchers (2014)
Cunningham, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
Poster presented at the First Texas Digital Humanities Conference, Houston, Texas. 10-14 April 2014.
Agile methods for agile universities (2013) @ Research Commons
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M
in Besley, T.A.C. & Peters, M.A. (eds.), Re-imagining the Creative University for the 21st Century, Sense Publishers. 27-48.
Greenbug: a hybrid web-inspector, debugger and design editor for Greenstone (2013) @ Research Commons
Bainbridge, D., McIntosh, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'13). ACM. 449-450.
Interactive context-aware user-driven metadata correction in digital libraries (2012) @ Research Commons
Bainbridge, D., Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 13(1) 17-32.
Open Access and the Role of Universities in Society (2012)
Nichols, D.
Open Access in Aotearoa, Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.
Metadatapedia: A proposal for aggregating metadata on data archiving (2012) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Twidale, M.B. & Cunningham, S.J.
Proceedings of the iConference'12, ACM. 370-376.
Recommendation, collaboration and social search (2011)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
in Ruthven, I. and Kelly, D. (eds.), Interactive Information-Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval. Facet Publishing. 205-220.
That's 'é' not 'þ' '?' or '☐': A user-driven context-aware approach to erroneous metadata in digital libraries (2011) @ Research Commons
Bainbridge, D., Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'11). ACM. 39-48.
Runner-up for Best Paper.
Usability in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2011)
Apperley, M.D. & Nichols, D.M.
in Douglas, I. & Liu, Z. (eds.) Global Usability. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer. 237-245.
Contextual queries express mobile information needs (2010) @ Research Commons
Hinze, A.M., Chang, C. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2010), ACM. 327-336.
Experiences with the Greenstone digital library software for international development (2010)
Nichols, D.M., Rose, J., Bainbridge, D. & Witten, I.H.
presented at the Digital Libraries for International Development Workshop (JCDL /ICADL 2010). 25 June 2010. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Contextual queries and situated information needs of mobile users (2010)
Hinze, A.M., Chang, C. & Nichols, D.M.
Working Paper 01/2010, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
How to Build a Digital Library (2010)
Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D. & Nichols, D.M.
Second Edition. Morgan Kaufmann.
Collaborative information retrieval (2009) @ IDEALS
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
in Bates, M.J. & Maack, M.N., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. CRC Press. 1080-1087.
Exploring social music behavior: an investigation of music selection at parties (2009) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009), ISMIR. 747-752.
The use of paper in everyday student life (2009) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M. & Cunningham, S.J.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the NZ ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (CHINZ 2009), ACM. 65-68.
Experiences in deploying metadata analysis tools for institutional repositories (2009) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Paynter, G.W., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M.B. & Blandford, A.
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 47(3/4) 229-248.
Computational sense for digital librarians (2009)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
in Theng, Y-L., Foo, S., Goh, D.H-L. & Na, J-C (eds.) Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact, Information Science Reference. 552-561.
Users of open source software: how do they get help? (2009) @ Research Commons
Singh, V., Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.1005
Human communication in customer-agent-computer interaction: face-to-face versus over telephone (2009)
Kira, A., Nichols, D.M. & Apperley, M.
Computers in Human Behavior, 25(1), 8-20.
Metadata Tools for Institutional Repositories (2008)
Nichols, D.M., Paynter, G.W., Chan C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M.B. & Blandford, A.
Working Paper 10/2008, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
How people find videos (2008) @ Research Commons
Cunningham, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'08). ACM. 201-210.
A lightweight metadata quality tool (2008) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'08). ACM. 385-388.
A competitive environment for exploratory query expansion (2008) @ Research Commons
Milne, D., Nichols, D.M., & Witten, I.H.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'08). ACM. 197-200.
Finding Video on the Web (2008)
Cunningham, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
Working Paper 03/2008, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
A Tool for Metadata Analysis (2008)
Nichols, D.M., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D. & Twidale, M.B.
Working Paper 02/2008, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
Writing in the library: exploring tighter integration of digital library use with the writing process (2008)
Twidale, M.B., Gruzd, A. & Nichols, D.M.
Information Processing & Management, 44(2) 558-580.
A knowledge-based search engine powered by Wikipedia (2007) @ Research Commons
Milne, D., Witten, I.H. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '07). ACM Press. 445-454.
Constructing digital library interfaces (2007) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Bainbridge, D. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'07). ACM Press. 331-32.
Internationalizing Greenstone: A multilingual tool for building digital libraries (2007)
Nichols, D.M., Keegan T.T., Bainbridge, D., Cunningham, S.J., Dewsnip, M. & Witten, I.H.
in Lazar, J. (ed.) Universal Usability - Designing Information Systems for Diverse Users, London: John Wiley & Sons. 559-586.
A digital library of language learning exercises (2007) @ Research Commons
Wu, S., Witten, I.H., Edwards, A., Nichols, D.M. & Aquino, R.
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 2(1).
Extracting corpus specific knowledge bases from Wikipedia (2007)
Milne, D., Witten, I.H. & Nichols, D.M.
Working Paper 03/2007, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
Digital Libraries in Education: specialized training course (2006)
Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D. & Nichols, D.M.
Moscow, Russia: IITE/UNESCO.
Extending Greenstone for institutional repositories (2006) @ Research Commons
Bainbridge, D., Osborn, W., Witten, I.H. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006). LNCS 4312. Springer. 303-312.
Computational sense: the role of technology in the education of digital librarians (2006)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Working Paper 10/2006, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
The usability of open source software: analysis and prospects (2006)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
in Open Source Software in Business - Issues and Perspectives, (ed.) Jain, R.K., Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press. 167-188.
Learning by building digital libraries (2006) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Bainbridge, D., Downie, J.S. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'06). ACM Press. 185-86.
Usability processes in open source projects (2006)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 11(2) 149-162.
Digital libraries and minority languages (2005) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Witten, I.H., Keegan, T.T., Bainbridge, D. & Dewsnip, M.
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 11(2) 139-155.
Evolving tool support for digital librarians (2005) (PDF)
Nichols, D.M., Bainbridge, D., Marsden, G., Patel, D., Cunningham, S.J., Thompson, J., Boddie, S.J. & Witten, I.H.
in Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific. (eds.) Theng, Y-L, & Foo, S., Information Science Publishing. 171-189.
Experiences with starfield visualizations for analysis of library collections (2005) @ Research Commons
Sánchez, J.A., Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M. & Silva, N.N.
Proceedings of the Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2005), IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 5669. 215-225.
Exploring usability discussions in open source software (2005) @ Research Commons
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.266
Best Paper nominee in the Internet and the Digital Economy Track
Digital library access for illiterate users (2004)
Deo, S., Nichols, D.M., Cunningham, S.J., Trujillo, M.F. & Witten, I.H.
Proceedings of the International Research Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT 2004). Dubai, UAE. 506-516.
Analyzing library collections with starfield visualizations (2004)
Sánchez, J.A., Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M. & Silva, N.N.
Working Paper 09/2004, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
Usability Discussions in Open Source Development (2004)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Working Paper 08/2004, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
A user evaluation of hierarchical phrase browsing (2003) @ Research Commons
Edgar, K.D., Nichols, D.M., Paynter, G.W., Thomson, K. & Witten, I.H.
Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), LNCS 2769. Springer. 313-324.
Participatory usability: supporting proactive users (2003) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., McKay, D. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction - New Zealand Chapter (CHINZ'03), 63-68. ACM SIGCHI New Zealand.
I'd like to complain about this software... (2003) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M.
SIGCHI Bulletin, 35(2), pp. 12, ACM SIGCHI.
The usability of open source software (2003)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
First Monday, 8(1), January 2003. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v8i1.1018
Usability and Open Source Software (2002)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Working Paper 02/10, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
Usability and open-source software development (2001) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Thomson, K. & Yeates, S.A.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction (CHINZ'01), (eds.) Kemp, E., Phillips, C., Kinshuk & Haynes, J., 49-54. Palmerston North, New Zealand. ACM SIGCHI New Zealand.
DEBORA: Developing an interface to support collaboration in a digital library (2000) @ Research Commons
Nichols, D.M., Pemberton, D., Dalhoumi, S., Larouk, O., Belisle, C. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000). LNCS 1923. Springer. 239-248.
Ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography and information systems design (2000) @ IDEALS
Crabtree, A., Nichols, D.M., O'Brien, J., Rouncefield, M. & Twidale, M.B.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(7) 666-682.
Teaching and learning computing skills via an intranet-based course (2000)
Friday, A. Parkes, A. & Nichols, D.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Networked Learning, Lancaster University, UK. 106-113.
SELECT: Social and collaborative filtering of web documents and news (1999)
Alton-Scheidl, R., Ekhall, J., van Geloven, O. Kovacs, L., Micsik, A., Lueg, C., Messnarz, R., Nichols, D., Palme, J., Tholerus, T., Mason, D., Proctor, R., Stupazzini, E., Vassali, M., & Wheeler, R.
Proceedings of the 5th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All: User-Tailored Information Environments. ERCIM. 23-37.
Computer supported cooperative work in information search and retrieval (1998)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 33, 259-319, (ed.) Williams, M.E., Medford, N.J.: Information Today Inc.
Using studies of collaborative activity in physical environments to inform the design of digital libraries (1998)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Presented at the Collaborative and co-operative information seeking in digital information environments Workshop at CSCW'98, Seattle, WA.
(Also as Technical Report - CSEG/11/98, Computing Department, Lancaster University).
The contribution of ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography to the process of designing digital libraries (1998)
Crabtree, A., Nichols, D.M., O'Brien, J., Rouncefield, M. & Twidale, M.B.
Technical Report - CSEG/5/98, Computing Department, Lancaster University.
A Survey of Applications of CSCW for Digital Libraries (1998)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Technical Report - CSEG/4/98, Computing Department, Lancaster University.
Implicit rating and filtering (1998)
Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the Fifth DELOS Workshop on Filtering and Collaborative Filtering. ERCIM. 31-36
Designing interfaces to support collaboration in information retrieval (1998) @ Lancaster Eprints
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Interacting with Computers, 10(2) 177-93.
Computer supported cooperative work and libraries (1997)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Vine, 27(5) 10-15.
Collaboration in Physical and Digital Libraries (1997) @ Open Grey
Twidale, M.B., Chaplin, D., Crabtree, A., Nichols, D.M., O'Brien, J. & Rouncefield, M.
British Library Research and Innovation Report 64, British Library Research and Innovation Centre, London. ISBN:0-7123-3324X.
Talking in the library: implications for the design of digital libraries (1997) @ Lancaster EPrints
Crabtree, A., Twidale, M.B., O'Brien, J., & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'97). ACM Press. 221-228.
Matchmaking and privacy in the digital library: striking the right balance (1997)
Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
Proceedings of the 4th UK/International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research (ELVIRA 4). Aslib. 31-38.
Recommendation and Usage in the Digital Library (1997)
Nichols, D.M., Twidale, M.B. & Paice, C.D.
Technical Report - CSEG/2/97, Computing Department, Lancaster University.
Browsing is a collaborative process (1997)
Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M. & Paice, C.D.
Information Processing & Management, 33(6) 761-83.
Interfaces to support collaboration in information retrieval (1996)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the BCS Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction Workshop, (Eds.) Johnson, C. & Dunlop, M., Glasgow, UK, 25-28.
Collaborative browsing and visualisation of the search process (1996)
Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
Aslib Proceedings, 48(7-8) 177-182.
A Thread of Ariadnes (1996)
Nichols, D.M.
Ariadne Magazine, Issue 2.
Supporting collaborative learning during information searching (1995) @ Lancaster EPrints
Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M., Smith, G. & Trevor, J.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL'95). Bloomington, IN. 367-74.
Supporting the active learning of collaborative database browsing techniques (1995)
Twidale, M.B.,Nichols, D.M., Mariani, J.A., Rodden, T. & Sawyer, P.
Association for Learning Technology Journal, 3(1) 75-9.
Ariadne: an interface to support collaborative database browsing (1995)
Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M., Smith, G. & Trevor, J.
Technical Report - CSEG/3/95, Computing Department, Lancaster University.
Intelligent Student Systems: an application of viewpoints to intelligent learning environments (1994)
Nichols, D.M.
PhD Thesis, Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK.
Issues in Collaborative Database Browsing (1994)
Twidale, M.B. Nichols, D.M., Mariani, J.A., Rodden, T. & Sawyer, P.
Technical Report - CSCW/14/94, Computing Department, Lancaster University.
Issues in designing learning by teaching systems (1994)
Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the East-West International Conference on Computer Technologies in Education (EW-ED'94), (Eds.) Brusilovsky, P. Dikareva, S., Greer, J. & Petrushin, V., Crimea, Ukraine. Volume 1. 176-81.
Intelligent student systems: learning by teaching (1993)
Nichols, D.M.
Proceedings of the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED'93), (Eds.) Brna, P., Ohlsson, S. & Pain, H., AACE. 576.