Bibliographic displays in Web catalogs: does conformity to design guidelines correlate with user performance?
The present study investigated whether there is a correlation between user performance and compliance with screen-design guidelines found in the literature. Rather than test individual guidelines and their interactions, the authors took a more holistic approach and tested a compilation of guidelines...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 154 - 163 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Sep2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106130426&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106130426 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07309295 ITL jtl: Information Technology & Libraries issn: 07309295 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2006 vid: 25 iid: 3 pid: 55 pub: American Library Association place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 106130426 106130426 2009314282 106130426 ppf: 154 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Bibliographic displays in Web catalogs: does conformity to design guidelines correlate with user performance? aug: au: Cherry JM Muter P Szigeti SJ affil: Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada sug: subj: Online Public Access Catalogs User-Computer Interface Evaluation World Wide Web Adolescence Adult Analysis of Variance Funding Source Information Retrieval Methods Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Time Factors Human Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years ab: The present study investigated whether there is a correlation between user performance and compliance with screen-design guidelines found in the literature. Rather than test individual guidelines and their interactions, the authors took a more holistic approach and tested a compilation of guidelines. Nine bibliographic display formats were scored using a checklist of eighty-six guidelines. Twenty-seven participants completed ninety search tasks using the displays in a simulated Web environment. None of the correlations indicated that user performance was statistically significantly faster with greater conformity to guidelines. In some cases, user performance was actually significantly slower with greater conformity to guidelines. In a supplementary study, a different set of forty-three guidelines and the user performance data from the main study were used. Again, none of the correlations indicated that user performance was statistically significantly faster with greater conformity to guidelines. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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