Article Improving mobile internet usability Share on Authors: George Buchanan Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, London, UK UKView Profile , Sarah Farrant Matt Jones Harold Thimbleby Gary Marsden Dept of Computer Science, University Cape Town, Private Bag RONDEBOSCH, 7701 South Africa AfricaView Michael Pazzani AdaptiveInfo, 111 Innovation Drive, Suite 200, Irvine, CA CAView Authors Info & Claims WWW '01: Proceedings the 10th international conference World Wide WebMay 2001 Pages...

Many older adults now use technologies such as wearable devices and telehealth services to support their health well-being while living independently at home. However, vary in how they these technologies, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the motivations that influence acceptance health-related home environments.This study aimed understand types factors motivate them chosen health. In addition, we enable effective for self-management identify barriers can negatively affect adoption...

Abstract This article reports on a longitudinal study of information seeking by undergraduate management students. It describes how they found and used information, explores their motivation decision making. We employed use‐in‐context approach where students were observed conducting, interviewed about, information‐seeking tasks carried out during academic work. that participants reluctant to engage with complex range sources, preferring use the Internet. The main driver for progress in was...

This study was designed to investigate the impact of staff education on behaviour and quality life residents with dementia members' attitudes about working people level burnout. Staff from three aged care facilities participated in (n=52). These were randomly assigned one two intervention groups or a control group. received an eight-week behaviourally-based programme. facility also peer support group reinforce educational material facilitate positive changes among members. Behavioural...

Purpose The problem of misinformation is one that has been well-explored in the literature. While researchers often study tertiary student behaviors, they do not distinguish between groups – such as those who have lived a country their whole lives versus moved to country. Further, literature tends focus broadly on misinformation, and malinformation an understudied area. aims address these gaps. Design/methodology/approach Data was gathered using survey instrument deployed part larger study....

Abstract A user's understanding of the libraries they work in, and hence what can do in those libraries, is encapsulated their “mental models” libraries. In this article, we present a focused case study users' mental models traditional digital based on observations interviews with eight participants. It was found that poor access restrictions led to risk‐averse behavior, whereas search algorithms relevance ranking resulted trial‐and‐error behavior. This highlights importance rich feedback...

Previous research has investigated whether temperature can augment a range of media including music, images and video. We describe the first experiment to investigate emotion conveyed by text messages. A challenge in prior work been ensuring users discern different thermal signals. present an improved technique for feedback that uses array three stimulators. demonstrate Thermal Array Display (TAD) increases users' ability identify temperatures within narrower range, compared using single...

Small handheld devices—mobile phones, Pocket PCs etc.—are increasingly being used to access the web. Search engines are most web services and an important factor of user support. engine providers have begun offer their on small screen. This paper presents a detailed evaluation how easy use such in these new contexts. An experiment was carried out compare users' abilities complete search tasks using mobile phone-sized, computer-sized conventional, desktop interface full Google™ index. With...

Users' search tactics often appear naïve. Much research has endeavored to understand the rudimentary query typically seen in log analyses and user studies. Researchers have tested a number of approaches supporting development, including information literacy training interaction design these tried failed induce users use more complex strategies. To further investigate this phenomenon, we combined established HCI methods with models from cultural studies, observed customers' mediated searches...

Tools for automatic subject assignment help deal with scale and sustainability in creating enriching metadata, establishing more connections across between resources enhancing consistency. Although some software vendors experimental researchers claim the tools can replace manual indexing, hard scientific evidence of their performance operating information environments is scarce. A major reason this that research usually conducted laboratory conditions, excluding complexities real‐life...

HCI is increasingly exploring how temperature can be used as an interaction modality. One challenge that changes are perceived over the course of seconds. This attributed to both slow response time skin thermoreceptors and latency technology heat cool skin. For this reason, thermal cues typically communicate single states, such emotion, then there a pause tens seconds allow re-adapt neutral before sending another signal. In contrast, paper presents first experimental demonstration continuous...

Libraries increasingly offer much of their collection online, rendering it invisible or unavailable to readers who, for reasons information experience, prefer browse the shelves. Although evidence that shelf browsing is an important part behavior increasing, as a somewhat black box (in contrast web browsing, which relatively well understood). It seems likely from early work not, in fact, monolithic behavior, but rather set behaviors and goals. The typologies presented these works, however,...

Phrase browsing techniques use phrases extracted automatically from a large information collection as basis for and accessing it. This paper describes case study that uses an constructed phrase hierarchy to facilitate of ordinary Web site. Phrases are the full text using novel combination rudimentary syntactic processing sequential grammar induction techniques. The interface is simple, robust easy use.

A key aspect of searching is the ability users to absorb information from documents read in order resolve their task. One group who have problems with reading are dyslexic users, due underlying cognitive impairments phonological processing and working memory, tend more slowly make errors. The purpose this study examine impact dyslexia profile on searching. Searches were logged for 8 non-dyslexic university students, differences behavior between two groups. set literacy memory tasks also...

Journal Article The Digital Reading Desk: A lightweight approach to digital note-taking Get access Jennifer Pearson, Pearson a Future Interaction Technology Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Swansea University, SA2 7BP, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George Buchanan, Buchanan * b Centre HCI Design, 2nd Floor College Building, City Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 7040 8469; fax: 1792 513383. E-mail...