TY - GEN
T1 - Rethinking Portal design
T2 - International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'10
AU - Douglas, Ian
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The usability of Portal design has been criticized in previous studies. Portals tend to contain an overwhelming amount of information in a difficult to navigate form. This paper will present a new method of organizing a portal for supporting groups of researchers. The architecture for the portal is open and has been adopted for use on several different projects. It is illustrated in a recently constructed portal for renewable energy researchers in Florida. The interface design model is based around the popular "app" concept that has arisen on mobile devices such as the iPhone. This is argued to be an efficient way to modularize information on Portals as well as mobile devices.
AB - The usability of Portal design has been criticized in previous studies. Portals tend to contain an overwhelming amount of information in a difficult to navigate form. This paper will present a new method of organizing a portal for supporting groups of researchers. The architecture for the portal is open and has been adopted for use on several different projects. It is illustrated in a recently constructed portal for renewable energy researchers in Florida. The interface design model is based around the popular "app" concept that has arisen on mobile devices such as the iPhone. This is argued to be an efficient way to modularize information on Portals as well as mobile devices.
KW - Energy research
KW - Portals
KW - User interface design
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U2 - 10.1145/1936254.1936281
DO - 10.1145/1936254.1936281
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952425228
SN - 9781450300476
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'10
SP - 153
EP - 158
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'10
Y2 - 26 October 2010 through 29 October 2010
ER -