Why structure and genre matter to users of digital information: a longitudinal study with readers of a web-based newspaper
From the abstract:
In an effort to understand the impact of designing for digital genres on users’ mental representations of structure, a two-phase study was conducted. In phase 1, six expert news readers and a panel of HCI experts were solicited for input regarding genre-conforming and genre-violating web news page design, navigation, and story categorization. In phase 2, a longitudinal experiment with a group of 25 novice web news readers who were exposed to one of the two designs over 5 sessions is reported. During these sessions a variety of user data were captured, including: comprehension (recall, recognition), usability (time on task, accuracy, user satisfaction), and navigation (path length, category node hits).
Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (via d-List)
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