The effects of graphical display and screen ratio on information retrieval in web pages

Consumer feelings and behaviours towards well designed websites

“…System usability-related factors for a well designed website: speed and ease of use A ''systematic website structure'' [11] must provide good online engineering performance, which involves ease of access, speed, and navigability. Although usability has also been suggested as needing with other factors such as content, interactivity, and responsiveness, we decided to consider only two dimensions: speed and ease of use [25]. We split ''speed'' into two factors: waiting time, including attitude towards it, and website delay.…”

Predicting whether users view dynamic content on the world wide web

“…McCrickard et al (2003) investigated the effect of various notification systems (tickers and alerts) on different types of task, finding that tickering text is best for supporting deeper comprehension, and fading best facilitates reaction. In line with Diaper and Waelend (2000) and van Schaik and Ling (2004), they also found that animated displays did not disrupt performance of the primary task, in this case, browsing. In a study investigating how to present help documentation on a secondary monitor, participants spent 18% of the time viewing'ambient' updating help when employed in an open-ended non-timecritical task, but only 3% of the time when doing something highly focused and timecritical (Matejka et al, 2011).…”

“…By contrast, Diaper and Waelend (2000), who criticized Zhang's tasks for lacking external validity (participants searched for random strings or words amongst other random strings or words), found that unrelated graphics, whether animated or not, had little impact on participants' ability to search for an answer in a block of text. Similarly, van Schaik and Ling (2004) found that in an information retrieval task, peripheral animations did not affect performance, although they were reported to be more distracting than static graphics. Maglio and Campbell (2000) examined the extent to which scrolling displays (tickers) either distracted participants, or helped to provide them with desired information.…”

The role of usability on stimulating SME’s on line buying intention: an experiment based on a ficticius web site design

“…That is, if it is usable or, navigable. In this line, Van Schaik and Ling (2006) state that a wide range of parameters impact on the usability of Web pages in terms of the time taken to perform tasks or in the accuracy of task performance. So, a Web will be named as "usable" if it works quickly and if it is simple.…”