scholarly journals Creating “wizards” on the library’s website

2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berika Williams ◽  
Debra Berlanstein
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Flow Chart ◽  
Front Door ◽  
Lead Users ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Programming Interface

Objectives: The library website is the virtual front door to the variety of services that the authors’ library offers. Library staff found confusion arose focused on two areas: how to reserve rooms in the library and how to reuse images using best practices. Two interactive forms were created that would hide and reveal content based on choices and lead the patron to answers.Methods: Brainstorming meetings were held to create a flow chart that identified the specific questions to be answered that would lead users to a logical answer. Once the correct flow was created, we approached each of these challenges by creating a custom module decision tree, using code through Drupal’s application programming interface (API) for forms.Results: The image reuse decision tree went live on the library website on February 17, 2017, and the room reservation wizard went live on August 27, 2017. By the end of the spring 2018 semester on May 18, 2018, the room reservation wizard had been accessed 1,945 times and risen to number 7 on the list of top-accessed website pages, and the image reuse wizard had been accessed 484 times.Conclusions: The popularity of both the decision tree pages is exciting. Both “wizards” have empowered users to find an answer to their questions virtually, especially during nonbusiness hours.

scholarly journals A Design Guide for Usable Web APIs

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Maribel Tello-Rodríguez ◽  
Jorge Octavio Ocharán-Hernández ◽  
Juan Carlos Pérez-Arriaga ◽  
Xavier Limón ◽  
Ángel J. Sánchez-García
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Design Guide ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Design Science Research Methodology ◽  
Programming Interface ◽  
Host Complex

Cloud computing trends such as Software as a Service (SaaS) enable providers to host complex applications over the Internet, making them available to external consumers through an Application Programming Interface (API). The success of a SaaS, and in some sense any distributed system, is greatly influenced by its API. Highly usable APIs improve the efficiency of the development process and its quality, ensuring that programmers continue to appreciate other aspects of the API while increasing their productivity. Different studies state that the design phase within the development process of an API is the most appropriate to address usability issues. Therefore, usability should be considered as an explicit criterion in the design of an API. In this paper, we propose a design guide for web APIs with an emphasis on usability, using the best practices of usable web APIs design. Our design guide is based on an adaptation of the design science research methodology (DSRM), and it is complemented with a systematic literature review and gray literature analysis concerning methods, techniques, and tools used to develop usable APIs.

scholarly journals Implementation of a secure room booking system at the University of Manitoba Libraries

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Wei Xuan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Learning And Collaboration ◽  
The University ◽  
Programming Interface

Providing group study rooms is an important service offered by a university library to support learning and collaboration. A good room booking system should be convenient for students to use and would require a minimum involvement of library staff regarding managing bookings and keys. This article studied the implementation of the Juno Secure Room Booking system at the library to replace LibCal, which is a popular room booking system used by a large number of university libraries in North America. This article discussed the advantages that the Juno system has compared to LibCal, the design of an online booking website using the Juno Application Programming Interface (API), and the enhancement the library designed and developed based on student feedback. This article also discussed how the library successfully engaged a college to use this system to manage study rooms for classes and exams.

Sistem Pengawasan Aktifitas Penggunaan Smartphone Android

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Rudianto Rudianto ◽  
Eko Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Image Content ◽  
Image File ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
Programming Interface

Availability the Application Programming Interface (API) for third-party applications on Android devices provides an opportunity to monitor Android devices with each other. This is used to create an application that can facilitate parents in child supervision through Android devices owned. In this study, some features added to the classification of image content on Android devices related to negative content. In this case, researchers using Clarifai API. The result of this research is to produce a system which has feature, give a report of image file contained in target smartphone and can do deletion on the image file, receive browser history report and can directly visit in the application, receive a report of child location and can be directly contacted via this application. This application works well on the Android Lollipop (API Level 22). Index Terms— Application Programming Interface(API), Monitoring, Negative Content, Children, Parent.

scholarly journals Advanced soft robot modeling in ChainQueen

Robotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Andrew Spielberg ◽  
Tao Du ◽  
Yuanming Hu ◽  
Daniela Rus ◽  
Wojciech Matusik
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Material Point ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Soft Robot ◽  
Inference Control ◽  
Simulation And Optimization ◽  
Efficient Simulation ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Robot Modeling ◽  
Programming Interface

Abstract We present extensions to ChainQueen, an open source, fully differentiable material point method simulator for soft robotics. Previous work established ChainQueen as a powerful tool for inference, control, and co-design for soft robotics. We detail enhancements to ChainQueen, allowing for more efficient simulation and optimization and expressive co-optimization over material properties and geometric parameters. We package our simulator extensions in an easy-to-use, modular application programming interface (API) with predefined observation models, controllers, actuators, optimizers, and geometric processing tools, making it simple to prototype complex experiments in 50 lines or fewer. We demonstrate the power of our simulator extensions in over nine simulated experiments.

A Layered Mapping of Ada 202X to OpenMP

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
S. Tucker Taft
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Thread Scheduling ◽  
Environment Variables ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Parallel Loops ◽  
Programming Interface

The OpenMP specification defines a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that together represent the OpenMP Application Programming Interface, and is currently defined for C, C++, and Fortran. The forthcoming version of Ada, currently dubbed Ada 202X, includes lightweight parallelism features, in particular parallel blocks and parallel loops. All versions of Ada, since its inception in 1983, have included "tasking," which corresponds to what are traditionally considered "heavyweight" parallelism features, or simply "concurrency" features. Ada "tasks" typically map to what are called "kernel threads," in that the operating system manages them and schedules them. However, one of the goals of lightweight parallelism is to reduce overhead by doing more of the management outside the kernel of the operating system, using a light-weight-thread (LWT) scheduler. The OpenMP library routines support both levels of threading, but for Ada 202X, the main interest is in making use of OpenMP for its lightweight thread scheduling capabilities.

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