Usability and Subject-based Access on the Web: A Usability Approach to Improving the User Experience in Web Directories - Softcover

Jiang, Nan

 
9783639231021: Usability and Subject-based Access on the Web: A Usability Approach to Improving the User Experience in Web Directories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3639231023 ISBN 13: 9783639231021
Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Web directories are hierarchically organised website collections that offer users subject-based access to the Web. They played a significant part in navigating the Web in the past but their role has been weakened in recent years due to their cumbersome expanding collections. This book presents a unified framework combining the advantages of personalisation and redefined directory search for improving the usability of Web directories. First, it extracts a formal definition of the rigidity of hierarchies from their characteristics and justifies why hierarchies are still better suited than facets in organising Web directories. Second, it identifies misfits causing poor usability in Web directories based on the discovered rigidity of hierarchies. Third, it proposes a solution to tackle the misfits and improve the usability of Web directories which has been experimentally proved to be successful.

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Verlag
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3639231023
ISBN 13 
9783639231021
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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