Convenience Is Not Enough

Abstract

A recent survey of studies [Tenopir, Hitchcock, & Pillow (2003). Use and users of electronic library resources: An overview and analysis of recent research studies. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources.] concluded "both faculty and students use and like electronic resources and most readily adopt them if the sources are perceived as convenient, relevant, and time saving to their natural workflow (p. iv)." However, the results of access studies show that actual use of online content is relatively low. This is because navigation to the online content in these various collections is not convenient, requires multiple steps in order to reach relevant content, and is not integrated into a student_s natural workflow. In our research, we have designed, implemented, deployed, and evaluated a method for making content available to students that targets the content to their current need.

Smartphone Dependency and Its Impact on Purchase Behavior

“…According the author, these information workers transfer activities and tasks between devices (PC and smartphone) of vastly differing capabilities and some would use their smartphone to work as a primary device until using a PC is necessary. Harvel (2006) suggested that the idea behind convenient for designing an application has to be made easy and people will use it. It has to consistently respond towards "ease of use" and "time-saving" (Harvel, 2006), in which it will aid to the user's job performance (Park & Chen, 2007).…”

“…Harvel (2006) suggested that the idea behind convenient for designing an application has to be made easy and people will use it. It has to consistently respond towards "ease of use" and "time-saving" (Harvel, 2006), in which it will aid to the user's job performance (Park & Chen, 2007). Convenience is normally related to people's perception of time scarcity and value time related issue (Berry et al, 2002) which lead to the consumer need of high convenience (Ting et al, 2011).…”

“…Time utilization in this study context is referred to as being practical and effective of use of the smartphone that help save time. Harvel (2006) and Berry et al (2002) both suggested convenience was related to time issues. Indeed smartphones that do come with ample applications provide great convenience and can assist its users in undertaking their daily tasks quickly.…”

The effects of textual environment on reading comprehension: Implications for searching as learning

“…Rather than emphasizing simplicity, the focus is on the development of tools that allow for greater interactivity and exploit some of the unique capabilities of digital text. Studies of electronic journal use [1, 26–28] note the value of advanced features such as integrated information retrieval of related resources; the ability to create hypertext links to related passages in other journal articles; the ability to take notes and make annotations within articles; and different article views based on genre-based structural components, for example, showing only the ‘Results’ section. Kopak and Chiang [28] examined the use of both annotation and linking tools within the Open Journal Systems, with the intention of having these Reading Tools used to actively create meaning connections both within and between texts in a collection of journal articles.…”