The Implications of Visualization Ability and Structure Preview Design for Web Information Search Tasks

Zhang, Honggang; Salvendy, Gavriel

doi:10.1207/s15327590ijhc1301_5

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“…Third, due to the large number of design metrics, it is infeasible to examine all the interaction effects among the design features, e.g., the interaction between text elements and page formatting, or the interaction between graphic elements and site architecture. A review of the existing HCI literature on website design shows that while some studies have started to examine multiple design features (e.g., Padovani and Lansdale, 2003), most studies still focus on a single design feature (e.g., Bayles, 2002;Fang, 2000;Potelle and Rouet, 2003;Yu and Roh, 2002;Zhang and Salvendy, 2001). We believe that going beyond a single design feature and relating it to other design features is essential to arrive at a more thorough understanding of their effects on website users.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing product listing pages on e-commerce websites: an examination of presentation mode and information format

Hong

Thong

Tam

2004

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Web interface design is of enduring interest to researchers as online shopping on the Internet continues to grow. Prior research has shown that the design of product listing pages, where information on multiple products are displayed together to allow further exploration of any of them, has a great influence on the traffic and sales volume on a website. In this paper, we focus on two design features, presentation mode and information format, and examine their impact on users' interaction with websites. An experiment was conducted to compare text-only versus image-text presentation modes, based on the dual coding theory, and list versus array information formats, based on the proximity compatibility principle. In general, the findings support the application of the dual coding theory and the proximity compatibility principle to the e-commerce domain. Specifically, the image-text presentation mode and the list information format were found to outperform the text-only presentation mode and the array information format respectively in terms of shorter information search time, better recall of brand names and product images, and more positive attitudes towards the screen design and using the website.Given the same information content, the spatial arrangement of products and the hierarchical placement of images can make a difference to users' online shopping performance and attitudes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Designing product listing pages on e-commerce websites: an examination of presentation mode and information format

Hong

Thong

Tam

2004

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…Other studies found that visualization ability [44][45][46] influences navigational performance. High visualization ability facilitates navigation in the sense that high visualization subjects take less time and activate fewer links to explore hypertexts or find specific information than other participants.…”

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Content Maps Help Low Spatial Capacity Users Memorize Link Structures in Hypertext

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Rouet²,

Pléh³

2009

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Abstract:We investigated the effect of spatial memory capacity and content maps on readers' memory for hypertext structure. Simple hierarchical hypertexts were built on four topics. For each topic there was a 6-node and a 9-node version. Each version came with or without a content map. Young adult participants were asked to read each hypertext with the purpose of learning the contents and structure. Then, they had to recall the layout of nodes and links. Memory for links varied as a function of spatial memory and the presence or absence of a map. When no map was available, high spatial memory participants drew more accurate maps than low memory participants. When a map was available the two groups had better results and did not differ from each other. The benefit of the map was larger for 9-node than for 6-node items. The results indicate that mentally representing hypertext structure relies on spatial working memory. Global content representations act as scaffolds for low spatial memory users.

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“…Indeed, in a number of studies participants with higher spatial abilities were more efficient in information seeking tasks in archival search tools [31], hierarchical file systems [130,129], online environment [92,138], online shopping database system [13], hypermedia-based help system [29], hypertext system [20,100] and a command line interface [13].…”

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“…Campagnoni et al [20] have suggested that participants with higher spatial visualization abilities are able to construct a better mental model of the system which is further employed during search and navigation in it in the absence of visual cues. Providing navigational aids improved the performance for users with low spatial abilities [120] and for both users with low and high spatial abilities [100,130,138]. The navigational aids used in [120,138] provided structural knowledge limiting the need to create a mental model.…”

Section: Navigation In Digital Environmentsmentioning

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“…Providing navigational aids improved the performance for users with low spatial abilities [120] and for both users with low and high spatial abilities [100,130,138]. The navigational aids used in [120,138] provided structural knowledge limiting the need to create a mental model. Pak et al [100] further demonstrated that the aid could also impose demands on users' spatial abilities-users with higher abilities will perform better with aids demanding spatial abilities, such as maps (as opposite to a list with instructions).…”

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Fostering User Involvement in Ontology Alignment and Alignment Evaluation

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The abundance of data at our disposal empowers data-driven applications and decision making. The knowledge captured in the data, however, has not been utilized to full potential, as it is only accessible to human interpretation and data are distributed in heterogeneous repositories.Ontologies are a key technology unlocking the knowledge in the data by providing means to model the world around us and infer knowledge implicitly captured in the data. As data are hosted by independent organizations we often need to use several ontologies and discover the relationships between them in order to support data and knowledge transfer. Broadly speaking, while ontologies provide formal representations and thus the basis, ontology alignment supplies integration techniques and thus the means to turn the data kept in distributed, heterogeneous repositories into valuable knowledge.While many automatic approaches for creating alignments have already been developed, user input is still required for obtaining the highest-quality alignments. This thesis focuses on supporting users during the cognitively intensive alignment process and makes several contributions.We have identified front-and back-end system features that foster user involvement during the alignment process and have investigated their support in existing systems by user interface evaluations and literature studies. We have further narrowed down our investigation to features in connection to the, arguably, most cognitively demanding task from the users' perspective-manual validation-and have also considered the level of user expertise by assessing the impact of user errors on alignments' quality. As developing and aligning ontologies is an error-prone task, we have focused on the benefits of the integration of ontology alignment and debugging.We have enabled interactive comparative exploration and evaluation of multiple alignments at different levels of detail by developing a dedicated visual environment-Alignment Cubes-which allows for alignments' evaluation even in the absence of reference alignments.Inspired by the latest technological advances we have investigated and identified three promising directions for the application of large, high-resolution displays in the field: improving the navigation in the ontologies and their alignments, supporting reasoning and collaboration between users. The work has been supported by the Swedish Research Council (2010-4759), the Swedish Graduate School in Computer Science (CUGS), the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC) and the EU FP7 project VALCRI (FP7-IP-608142).iii POPULÄRVETENSKAPLIG SAMMANFATTNING Under de senaste 30 åren har webben fundamentalt och oåterkalleligen förändrat våra livhur vi arbetar, hur vi tar del av underhållning och hur vi kommunicerar. Webben innehåller miljarder av informationskällor i en uppsjö olika format-websidor, databaser, dokument, figurer, etc.-alla ihopkopplade genom en enorm mängd länkar. Webben är inte statisk, utan växer konstant och erbjuder ett överflöd av data, som kan använd...

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The Implications of Visualization Ability and Structure Preview Design for Web Information Search Tasks

Cited by 44 publications

References 23 publications

Designing product listing pages on e-commerce websites: an examination of presentation mode and information format

Designing product listing pages on e-commerce websites: an examination of presentation mode and information format

Content Maps Help Low Spatial Capacity Users Memorize Link Structures in Hypertext

Fostering User Involvement in Ontology Alignment and Alignment Evaluation

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