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....is one of the most obvious measures. The larger or more complex a site, the more structuring is needed to prevent disorientation [2] The size may depend on the type of web site e.g. a personal site, an institutional web site, a newspaper or a portal site, all of which serve different user goals [ 16]. The complexity of a site indicates the amount of freedom in navigation offered to the user. Complexity is most easily expressed as the ratio between the number of links and the number of pages [ 14] However, theoretically larger sites can contain more links. Therefore it makes sense to take the ....

Shneiderman, B.: Designing Information-Abundant Websites: Issues and Recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 47 (1). Academic Press, 1997

.... Regarding the seventh point, as expected, the web sites usability was not only dependent on the content, but also highly dependent on the structure of the site [27] the links and the overall design philosophy [28] To cope with this matter, the web site design followed recent proposals [29,30] on how to organize web sites and increase usability. Furthermore, the structure of the web site had to be modular enough to enable automatic page generation based on the data stored in the database. In an effort to maximize usability and ensure maximum user satisfaction, measurement of users ....

B. Shneiderman, Designing information-abundant web sites: issues and recommendations , International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Special Issue: World Wide Web Usability, vol. 49, 1997.

....support and for collaboration. Argumentation and discourse systems such as gIBIS [5] Virtual Notebook [31] and Design Intent [10] employ shared views to allow groups to develop shared understandings through semantic hypertext representations. Recent work on the usability of complex web sites [29] indicates the need to structure information objects (e.g. hierarchies and networks) as one of the main four tasks to increase comprehension ability on the part of the viewer. In other words, maps of the site can be used as a guide to visualizing and understanding the site. Behind this ....

Shneiderman, Ben, Designing Information-abundant web sites: issues and recommendations, Int. J. Human-Computer Studies (1997) 47, 5-29.

....the marketplace may choose a breadth or a depth orientation for the navigation structure. However, one alternative for categorization does not dominate the other. A breadth hierarchy has the advantage of leading the user to her target page with the least number of page retrievals (or clicks) [20]. However, since there are fewer categories, each category will have more items posted, leading to longer download times and information overload from too many items displayed on a single page [16] On the other hand, a depth hierarchy enables the user to drill down more effectively to the ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997). "Designing Information Abundant Web Sites: Issues and Recommendations". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 47(1), pp. 5-29.

....auction types. may choose a breadth or a depth orientation for the navigation structure. However, one alternative for categorization does not dominate the other. A breadth hierarchy has the advantage of leading the user to her target page with the least number of page retrievals (or clicks) [28]. However, since there are fewer categories, each category will have more items posted, leading to longer download times and information overload from too many items displayed on a single page [23] On the other hand, a depth hierarchy enables the user to drill down more effectively to the ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997). "Designing Information Abundant Web Sites: Issues and Recommendations". Int J of Human-Computer Studies, 47(1), 5-29.

.... the usability of web pages of the quantity of information and the manner of presentation Second, is information easy to find for users That is, are users able to find the information they are looking for, and in a reasonable period of time and after following a reasonable number of links Shneiderman (1997), whose sustaining dedication to human computer interaction issues is indicated by the numerous references to his work on the web, states that it will take a decade until we have had sufficient experience, experimentation and hypothesis testing to clarify interface design issues. Until that time, ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997). Designing information-abundant websites: issues and recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer studies, 1, 5-29.

....network that comprises a near infinite number of sub networks, each with its own designer or team of designers. This global nature of the Web raises other important usability issues. First, with so many sites, it is virtually impossible to maintain the consistency of the navigation design (Shneiderman, 1997). Since the discipline of design is still more science than art, there will always be substantial between site differences in how the navigation structure is designed, thus leading to confusion whenever a user crosses site boundaries. Second, with a distributed authoring and publishing ....

Shneiderman, B. "Designing Information-Abundant Web Sites: Issues and Recommendations", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 47, 1, 1997, 5-29.

....Real user evaluation is important because hyperdocuments are designed for users and not just what designers think or feel are important. Real users can be employed to evaluate hyperdocuments on the WWW with their transactions logged by the server log files, a view shared by Tim (1995) and 9 Shneiderman (1997). However, Tim (1995) cautions that analysing the server log files takes time, if designers have to do that manually. Therefore, to help designers analyse these log files, HyperAT has a facility that parses and analyses server log files and interprets them, providing designers with useful insights ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997), "Designing information-abundant websites: Issues and Recommendations," to appear in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (1997).

....successfully. Search NCSTRL came up well with 80 of the subjects completing the search task successfully compared to 50 for NZDL and 0 for ACMDL. The five subjects who were unable to find the article on Designing information abundant web sites: issues and recommendations by Ben Shneiderman [23] because it was not listed under the appropriate collection but classified as a technical report . All the subjects were unable to complete the search task using the ACMDL because the article is not published in an ACM affiliated publication. The subjects were generally pleased with the usability ....

Shneiderman, B.: Designing information-abundant websites: issues and recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. (1996).

....Real user evaluation is important because hyperdocuments are designed for users and not just what designers think or feel are important. Real users can be employed to evaluate hyperdocuments on the web with their transactions logged by the server log files, a view shared by Berners Lee (1995) and Shneiderman (1997). However, Berners Lee (1995) cautions that analysing the server log files takes time, if designers have to do that manually. Therefore, to help designers analyse these log files, HyperAT has a facility that parses and analyses server log files and interprets them, providing designers with useful ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997), "Designing information-abundant web sites: Issues and Recommendations," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

....Meanwhile, note that the reason that a user is clicking is to obtain the information of interest and not to send information to server. Hence, an efficient site from the user perspective is the one that information can be found as fast as possible. There has been many works in this direction[Shn97, GB97, WJGMD96] In most cases, the less number of clicks by a user translates into faster access. Therefore, it seems that increasing the efficiency of a site for both the server and its users are conflicting objectives. In this paper, we focus on design guidelines to increase information ....

B. Shneiderman. Designing informationabundant web sites: issues and recommendations. Int. J. of Human-Computer Studies, 47:5--29, 1997.

....i.e. document items, is sorted after so called relevance with inner workings and metrics hidden and all but incomprehensible to most users: This is appealing in its simplicity, but users are often frustrated as they do not know what the results mean, nor can they control aspects of the search. [Shneiderman 1997] Usage problems stem partly from lack of overview and means of organizing the presentation of documents. These issues are addressed in a user interface framework known as Easify [Fig. 1] Documents can be grouped by topic as shown by Scatter Gather [Cutting et al. 1992] or a variety of other ....

Shneiderman, B. (1997). Designing Information-Abundant Web Sites: Issues and Recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, 47 (1).

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