A Usability Assessment of Online Indexing Structures in the Networked Environment Export

@article{RefWorks:212, abstract = {Investigates one component of a Web site--the index structure, comparing the effectiveness and efficiency of 20 subjects who used one index and three experimental variants to complete five tasks. Findings indicate that a hypertext index with multiple access points for each concept, all linked to the same resource, led to greater effectiveness and efficiency of retrieval on almost all measures. Satisfaction measures were more variable. (Author/AEF)}, author = {Hert, Carol A. and Jacob, Elin K. and Dawson, Patrick}, citeulike-article-id = {238202}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, keywords = {analysis, indexing, usability}, month = {Sep}, number = {11}, pages = {971--988}, posted-at = {2005-06-26 06:40:11}, priority = {0}, title = {A Usability Assessment of Online Indexing Structures in the Networked Environment}, volume = {51}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - RefWorks:212 L3 - citeulike-article-id:238202 N2 - Investigates one component of a Web site--the index structure, comparing the effectiveness and efficiency of 20 subjects who used one index and three experimental variants to complete five tasks. Findings indicate that a hypertext index with multiple access points for each concept, all linked to the same resource, led to greater effectiveness and efficiency of retrieval on almost all measures. Satisfaction measures were more variable. (Author/AEF) IS - 11 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science EP - 988 TI - A Usability Assessment of Online Indexing Structures in the Networked Environment VL - 51 SP - 971 KW - analysis KW - indexing KW - usability AU - Hert, Carol AU - Jacob, Elin AU - Dawson, Patrick PY - 2000/Sep// ER -