Harold Thimbleby
“Reading & digital libraries” only

1.Reading & digital libraries — Publications: refereed
1.1.Journal papers: refereed
1.2.Contributions to edited volumes: refereed
1.3.Conference papers: refereed
2.Reading & digital libraries — Invited publications: not refereed
2.1.Forewords and keynotes
2.2.Articles in other journals
3.Reading & digital libraries — Presentations, exhibitions, debates, workshops
3.1.Invited lectures, webinars and seminars

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1. Reading & digital libraries — Publications: refereed

1.1. Journal papers: refereed

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “The Digital Reading Desk: A Lightweight Approach to Digital Note-taking”, Interacting with Computers, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 327–338 (2012). PDF DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2012.03.001

H. Thimbleby, “Signposting in Documents”, Computer Journal, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1119–1135, OUP (2010). PDF DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxq061

H. Thimbleby, *M. Jones & G. Buchanan, “Improving Web Search on Small Screen Devices”, Interacting with Computers, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 479–495 (2003). PDF DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(03)00036-5

H. Thimbleby, “Gentler: A Tool for Systematic Web Authoring”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 139–168 (1997). DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1997.0131

H. Thimbleby, “Designing Interfaces for Problem Solving, with Application to Hypertext and Creative Writing”, AI & Society, vol. 8, pp. 29–44 (1994). PDF DOI: 10.1007/BF02065176

1.2. Contributions to edited volumes: refereed

H. Thimbleby, “An Author’s Cross–Referencer”, Computers and Writing, P. O. Holt & N. Williams (editors), pp. 82–98, Intellect Books (1992). DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2854-4_7

1.3. Conference papers: refereed

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson, G. Buchanan & T. Owen, “Co-Reading: Investigating Collaborative Group Reading”, 12th ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL, pp. 325–334, ACM, Washington, DC, USA (2012). URL DOI: 10.1145/2232817.2232876

H. Thimbleby, J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, ACM SIGCHI Honorable Mention, “Investigating Collaborative Annotation on Slate PCs”, MobileHCI’12: 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp. 413–416, ACM, San Francisco, California, USA (2012). URL DOI: 10.1145/2371574.2371637

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “The Reading Desk: Applying Physical Interactions to Digital Documents”, Proceedings ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction — CHI’2011, pp. 3199–3202, ACM, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2011). PDF

H. Thimbleby, J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “The Reading Desk: Supporting Lightweight Note-taking in Digital Documents”, Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: Research and advanced technology for digital libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6966, pp. 438–441, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany (2011). URL DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_44

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “HCI Design Principles for eReaders”, Proceedings BooksOnline’10: Proceedings of the third workshop on research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media, pp. 15–24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2010). PDF DOI: 10.1145/1871854.1871860

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “Creating Visualisations for Digital Document Indexing”, Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries, ECDL’09, M. Agosti, J. Borbinha, S. Kapidakis, C. Papatheodorou & G. Tsakonas (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 87–93, Springer Verlag, Corfu, Greece (2009). URL PDF

H. Thimbleby, *J. Pearson & G. Buchanan, “Improving Annotations In Digital Documents”, Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries — ECDL’09, M. Agosti, J. Borbinha, S. Kapidakis, C. Papatheodorou & G. Tsakonas (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5714, pp. 429–432, Springer Verlag, Corfu, Greece (2009).

H. Thimbleby, *G. Buchanan, M. Jones & A. Blandford, “Integrating Information Seeking and Structuring: Exploring the Role of Spatial Hypertext in a Digital Library”, Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia — HT’04, Proceedings European Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 225–234, ACM Press, Santa Cruz, CA, USA (2004). PDF

H. Thimbleby, *G. Buchanan, A. Blandford & M. Jones, Winner of Ted Nelson Newcomer Award, “Integrating Information Seeking and Structuring: Exploring the Role of Spatial Hypertext in a Digital Library”, Proceedings Hypertext 2004, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia — HT04, pp. 225–234 (2004). PDF DOI: 10.1145/1012807.1012864

H. Thimbleby, *G. Buchanan, A. E. Blandford & M. Jones, “Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries”, Proceedings Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries, K. Börner & C. Chen (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2539, pp. 13–24, Springer Verlag (2002). PDF

H. Thimbleby, *Y. Theng, N. Mohd-Nasir, G. Buchanan, B. Fields & N. Cassidy, “Dynamic Digital Libraries For Children”, The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL, pp. 406–415 (2001). PDF DOI: 10.1145/379437.379738

H. Thimbleby, *Y. L. Theng, N. Mohd-Nasir, G. Buchanan, M. Jones, D. Bainbridge & N. Cassidy, “Children as Design Partners and Testers for a Children’s Digital Library”, Proceedings 4th. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2000, J. Borbinha & T. Baker (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1923, pp. 249–258, Springer Verlag (2000).

H. Thimbleby, *Y. L. Theng, N. Mohd-Nasir, G. Buchanan & M. Jones, “Designing a Children’s Digital Library with and for Children”, Proceedings of the ACM Fifth Digital Library Conference, pp. 266–267, San Antonio, USA (2000).

H. Thimbleby, N. Bryan-Kinns & A. E. Blandford, “Interaction Modelling for Digital Libraries”, Proceedings Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems, pp. 1–10 (2000).

H. Thimbleby, *Y. L. Theng, G. Buchanan & N. Mohd-Nasir, “Purpose and Usability of Digital Libraries”, Proceedings Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM DL’2000, pp. 238–239, San Antonio, Texas (2000). PDF

H. Thimbleby, *Y. L. Theng, E. Duncker, N. M. Nasir & G. Buchanan, “Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries”, Proceedings Third European Conference on Digital Libraries ECDL’99: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, S. Abiteboul & A. Vercoustre (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1696, pp. 167–183, Springer Verlag (1999). PDF

H. Thimbleby, G. Buchanan & G. E. Marsden, “Dynamic Metadata for Monitoring Digital Library Management”, Proceedings Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 219–220, Berkeley, California (1999).

H. Thimbleby, *Y. L. Theng & M. Jones, “Reducing Information Overload: A Comparative Study Of Hypertext Systems”, Proceedings Information Overload, IEE Colloquium, no. IEE Digest 1995/223, pp. 6/1–6/5 (1995). DOI: 10.1049/ic:19951431

H. Thimbleby, “Creative Writing in Hypertext: Beyond Linking Concepts”, Proceedings Conference on Computers & Writing, vol. VI (1993).

H. Thimbleby, *R. J. Watt, J. Bock & A. Wilkins, “Visible Aspects of Text”, Proceedings Applying Visual Psychophysics to User Interface Design, pp. 309–325, London (1990).

H. Thimbleby & R. Bornat, “The Life and Times of Ded, Display Editor”, Cognitive Ergonomics and Human Computer Interaction, J. B. Long & A. Whitefield (editors), pp. 225–255, Cambridge University Press (1989). PDF

H. Thimbleby, “A Text Display Editor as a Terminal Driver”, Proceedings International Conference on Document Preparation Systems, pp. 13–14, Lausanne (1981).

2. Reading & digital libraries — Invited publications: not refereed

2.1. Forewords and keynotes

H. Thimbleby, “Living in the past is written in stone; The future is written in parallel — Writing a book on Health IT”, Future of Text 2019 Symposium, Southampton (2019).

2.2. Articles in other journals

H. Thimbleby, “Erratum: “See also” Indexing with Makeindex (TUGboat 12(2):290)”, TUGboat, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 95 (1992).

H. Thimbleby, ““See also” Indexing with Makeindex”, TUGboat, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 290 (1991).

H. Thimbleby, “Traces in HyperCard”, Program Now!, pp. 36–39 (June 1990).

3. Reading & digital libraries — Presentations, exhibitions, debates, workshops

3.1. Invited lectures, webinars and seminars

H. Thimbleby, “Generating Hypertext Automatically”, University College London (Computer Science) (1995).

H. Thimbleby, “Beyond Mere Hypertext”, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London (1993).


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