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A flexible interface design for Web directories to accommodate different cognitive styles: Research Articles

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Sherry Y. Chen,

George D. Magoulas,

Dionisios DimakopoulosAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 56, Issue 1

Pages 70 - 83

Published: 01 January 2005 Publication History

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Search engines are very popular tools for collecting information from distributed resources. They provide not only search facilities, but they also offer directories for users to browse content divided into groups. In this paper, we've adopted an individual differences approach to explore user's attitudes towards various interface features provided by existing Web directories. Among a variety of individual differences, cognitive style is a particularly important characteristic that influences the effectiveness of information seeking. Empirical results indicate that users' cognitive styles influence their reactions to the organization of subject categories, presentation of the results, and screen layout. We developed a set of design guidelines on the basis of these results, and propose a flexible interface that adopts these guidelines to accommodate the preferences of different cognitive style groups. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Volume 56, Issue 1

January 2005

108 pages

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