Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Names Access Project Suzanne Ginsburg

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Motivation Contribute to Holocaust Survivor community Develop system that people need Create “real world” project

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Holocaust Museum Internship Became familiar with organizational structure Gathered task analysis information – Interviewed Registry staff – Observed visitors search Survivors Registry – Collected relevant documents – Researched other search services – Listened and asked lots of questions...

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Problems No central resource Each resource organized differently Spelling variations, errors, and multiple names

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Goals Provide central point of access Alleviate problems associated with spelling and name variations Support alternative search strategies

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Target users Survivors Friends and relatives of survivors and victims Survivors Registry staff Genealogists General public

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Proposed backend solutions Inquiry SQL Server, Cold Fusion, and Inquiry SQL Server and Cold Fusion – Link back to original databases SQL Server and Cold Fusion – Create master database, “UniList” ?

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 French Deportation Lists Auschwitz Prisoner Records Survivors Registry Surname Maiden name Forename DOB POB Name Previous name Other name DOB POB First name Last name DOB POB Merged database Lodz Ghetto First name Last name DOB POB

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Person Names Places Dates Media Family Source

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 UI Iterative design process Task Analysis Lo-fi First interactive Heuristic evaluationPilot user study Second interactiveFinal interactive [ [ Design Testing DecemberMayMarchApril

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Key interface features Search – Soundex – Thesaurus – Date range Browse names by surname and birthplace Cross-links – More records about this person – Family members’ records Sample traces, search support, related resources

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Pilot user study Goals Participants Procedure Results

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Next steps Annotation tools Researcher tools and views Online submissions and corrections

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 Special thanks to.. Bob Twitty and Michael Haley-Goldman Professors Hearst, Besser, Cooper, Braunstein Usability test participants SIMS classmates

Names Access Project May 12, 1999 “How rare that someone actually does something useful with the Web...”