Early Canadiana on the World Wide Web: Preliminary Analysis of Usage Patterns and Usage Feedback

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan M. Cherry ◽  
Wendy M. Duff ◽  
Gerry Oxford
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
User Survey ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Software Monitoring

Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a full-text, Web-based collection of pre-1900 documents which were published in Canada, or which were published in other countries but written by Canadians or about Canada. This paper reports preliminary findings from two studies of this collections- one involving software monitoring of usage of the collection; the other involving a Web-based user survey.

Patterns of Searching for Information on the World Wide Web: A Pilot Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1091-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽  
Asako Miura
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Task Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Search Domain

The influences of task type on search of the World Wide Web using search engines without limitation of search domain were investigated. 9 graduate and undergraduate students studying psychology (1 woman and 8 men, M age = 25.0 yr., SD = 2.1) participated. Their performance to manipulate the search engines on a closed task with only one answer were compared with their performance on an open task with several possible answers. Analysis showed that the number of actions was larger for the closed task ( M = 91) than for the open task ( M = 46.1). Behaviors such as selection of keywords (averages were 7.9% of all actions for the closed task and 16.7% for the open task) and pressing of the browser's back button (averages were 40.3% of all actions for the closed task and 29.6% for the open task) were also different. On the other hand, behaviors such as selection of hyperlinks, pressing of the home button, and number of browsed pages were similar for both tasks. Search behaviors were influenced by task type when the students searched for information without limitation placed on the information sources.

scholarly journals Making oral history accessible over the World Wide Web

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bainbridge ◽  
Sally Jo Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Full Text ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Text Retrieval ◽  
Interview Transcript ◽  
Source Materials

This article describes a multimedia, WWW-based oral history collection constructed from off-the-shelf or publicly available software. The source materials for the collection include audio tapes of interviews and summary transcripts of each interview, as well as photographs illustrating episodes mentioned in the tapes. Sections of the transcripts are manually matched to associated segments of the tapes, and the tapes are digitized. Users search a full-text retrieval system based on the text transcripts to retrieve relevant transcript sections and their associated audio recordings and photographs. It is also possible to search for photographs by ma tching text queries against text descriptions of the photographs in the collection, where the located photographs link back to their respective interview transcript and audio recording.

Challenges and Issues in Web-Based Information Retrieval System

2017 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Sathiyamoorthi V.
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
Great Demand ◽  
The World

It is generally observed throughout the world that in the last two decades, while the average speed of computers has almost doubled in a span of around eighteen months, the average speed of the network has doubled merely in a span of just eight months! In order to improve the performance, more and more researchers are focusing their research in the field of computers and its related technologies. Internet is one such technology that plays a major role in simplifying the information sharing and retrieval. World Wide Web (WWW) is one such service provided by the Internet. It acts as a medium for sharing of information. As a result, millions of applications run on the Internet and cause increased network traffic and put a great demand on the available network infrastructure.

Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Panero Benway
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Designers ◽  
Do So ◽  
Banner Blindness

Web designers attempt to draw attention to important links by making them distinctive. However, when users are asked to find specific items, they often overlook these distinctive banners. The irony of “banner blindness” is that the user who really wants to find the information the designer has highlighted is not likely to do so. In the experiments reported here, banner blindness is reproduced under controlled conditions. Banners located higher on the page and therefore further from the other page links were missed more often than banners located lower on the page and closer to the other links. Banners were missed more often when located on pages containing links to categories than when located on pages with links to specific items. Users saw banners hardly at all when clicking a banner was not required to accomplish a task.

scholarly journals Technical Considerations in Remote LIMS Access via the World Wide Web

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ulma ◽  
David M. Schlabach
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Wide Area Network ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytical Result

The increased dependency on the World Wide Web by both laboratories and their customers has led LIMS developers to take advantage of thin-client web applications that provide both remote data entry and manipulation, along with remote reporting functionality. Use of an LIMS through a web browser allows a person to interact with a distant application, providing both remote administration and real-time analytical result delivery from virtually anywhere in the world. While there are many benefits of web-based LIMS applications, some concern must be given to these new methods of system architecture before justifying them as a suitable replacement for their traditional client-server systems. Developers and consumers alike must consider the security aspects of introducing a wide area network capable system into a production environment, as well as the concerns of data integrity and usability.

A Web-Based Teaching Program for Laboratory Diagnosis of Coagulation Disorders

2000 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy N. D. Nguyen ◽  
Margaret O. Uthman ◽  
Kathy A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Coagulation Disorders ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Computer Software

Abstract Objective.—To implement an interactive program for teaching coagulation disorders on the World Wide Web. Design and Results.—The core materials in this program were derived from a personal computer software program previously designed by the authors. Three modules were developed in this program: (1) a coagulation profile to display typical results of coagulation screening tests for each disorder; (2) a differential diagnosis module to generate a list of diagnoses that fit the test results in a given case; and (3) a synopsis of coagulopathy and therapy to provide essential information on disorders and therapeutic options. A total of 41 coagulation disorders were included in the knowledge base. Conclusions.—Since the World Wide Web is increasingly more accessible to computer users, it has become an ideal medium for teaching purposes. Our experience with this program in teaching medical students and pathology residents at our institution has been very encouraging.

Conditional Branching in Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaires on the World Wide Web

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (14) ◽  
pp. 1241-1245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent L. Norman ◽  
Timothy Pleskac
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Paper And Pencil

Conditional branching is used to direct respondents to skip inappropriate questions or to answer follow-up questions. When surveys are implemented on the World Wide Web, branching can be automated in different ways. Three implementations of conditional branching in Web-based surveys were compared: (a) a manual form which replicated the paper-and-pencil version in a scrollable window, (b) a semi-automatic form which also showed the whole survey but auto-scrolled to the next question, and (c) an automatic form that displayed only one item per screen and implemented all branching. The surveys used involved one, two, or three follow-up questions. The automatic item-by-item implementation proved significantly faster than either the manual or the auto-scrolling versions. Respondents found the auto-scrolling to be disorienting. These results suggest that automatic branching should be used but with graceful jumps that guide the respondents' focus of attention without loosing it.

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