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Roy, Marie Christine; Dewitt, Olivier; Aubert, Benoit A. – Internet Research, 2001
Describes a study where 66 subjects were asked to perform some predefined book purchasing task in a series of Web sites with varying interface quality. A strong relationship between interface quality and trust was found and some components of user interface quality were more important than others. Discusses implications for Web site design.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Purchasing, Retailing

Chen, Ping-Wen; Chang, Shi-Kuo – Telematics and Informatics, 1997
Presents a World Wide Web page model that reacts to pre-defined events and performs actions like "prefetching" automatically. Discusses the active index, conceptual page model; design of the client system, status of the current implementation, prefetching algorithm, an experiment of the algorithm, experimental results of the active index…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Expert Systems

Palmquist, Ruth A.; Kim, Kyung-Sun – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Describes a study that investigated the effects of cognitive style (field dependent and field independent) and online database search experience (novice and experienced) on undergraduate World Wide Web search performance. Considers user factors to predict search efficiency and discusses implications for Web interface design and user training…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Databases

Puntambekar, Sadhana; du Boulay, Benedict – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997
Describes and evaluates Metacognition in Studying from Texts (MIST), a system that helps students develop metacognitive skills by providing a process-based interface and support for collaboration and reflection. A study of 20 ninth graders determined that high ability students used the interface and intervention productively, but that low ability…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces