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• Metadatapedia: A proposal for aggregating metadata on data archiving (2012 to appear)
  Nichols, D.M., Twidale, M.B. and Cunningham, S.J.
  Proceedings of the iConference'12, Toronto, Canada. ACM.
• 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) also in the 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. Best Paper nominee.
  
• 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) also in the 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) also in the Research Commons
  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 (2010)
  Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
  in Bates, M.J. & Maack, M.N., (eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. Taylor & Francis. 1080-1087.
• Exploring social music behavior: an investigation of music selection at parties (2009) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the 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. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2009.1005
• Human-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) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the Research Commons
  Cunningham, S.J. & Nichols, D.M.
  Working Paper 03/2008, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
• A Tool for Metadata Analysis (2008) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the 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) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the 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) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the 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) also in the 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. ISBN 1591404428
• Experiences with starfield visualizations for analysis of library collections (2005) also in the 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) also in the 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. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2005.266
  Best Paper nominee in the Internet and the Digital Economy Track
• Digital library access for illiterate users (2004) (PDF)
  Deo, S., Nichols, D.M., Cunningham, S.J., Trujillo, M.F. & Witten, I.H.
  International Research Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT 2004). Dubai, UAE. 506-516.
• Analyzing library collections with starfield visualizations (2004) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the Research Commons
  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) also in the 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) also in the 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. Dunedin, New Zealand. ACM SIGCHI New Zealand.
• I'd like to complain about this software... (2003) also in the Research Commons
  Nichols, D.M.
  SIGCHI Bulletin, 35(2), pp. 12, ACM SIGCHI.
  
• The usability of open source software (2003) (PDF)
  Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
  First Monday, 8(1), January 2003.
  http://firstmonday.org/article/view/1018/939
  
• Usability and Open Source Software (2002) (PDF) also in the Research Commons
  Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
  Working Paper 02/10, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato.
• Digital Library Access for Illiterate Users (2002)
  Deo, S., Cunningham, S.J., Nichols, D.M. & Witten, I.H.
  Technical Report ISRN UIUCLIS--2002/4+ISRL, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• Usability and open-source software development (2001) also in the Research Commons
  Nichols, D.M., Thomson, K. & Yeates, S.A.
  Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction, (eds.) Kemp, E., Phillips, C., Kinshuk & Haynes, J., 49-54. Palmerston North, New Zealand. ACM SIGCHI New Zealand. ISBN: 0473075598.
• DEBORA: Developing an interface to support collaboration in a digital library (2000) also in the 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). Springer. 239-248.
• Ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography and information systems design (2000) PDF
  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, Kobsa, A. & Stephanidis, C. (Eds.), Dagstuhl, Germany. ERCIM. 23-37.
• Computer supported cooperative work and libraries (1999) alternative version
  Nichols, D.M. & Twidale, M.B.
  Vine, 109, 10-15.
• 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.
• Collaboration in Physical and Digital Libraries (1997)
  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) (PDF)
  Crabtree, A., O'Brien, J., Twidale, M.B. & 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), London, UK: Aslib. 31-38. ISBN: 0851424015.
• 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) alternative version
  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) (PDF)
  Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M.
  Aslib Proceedings, 48(7-8) 177-182.
  (Also in Electronic library and visual information research 3, (Eds.) Collier, M. & Arnold, K., (1996) Aslib. 51-60. ISBN: 0851423833)
• A Thread of Ariadnes (1996)
  Nichols, D.M.
  Ariadne Magazine, Issue 2.
• Supporting collaborative learning during information searching, (1995) (PDF)
  Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M., Smith, G. & Trevor, J.
  Proceedings of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning '95, (Eds.) Schnase, J.L. & Cunnius, E.L., 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.