Multifaceted Browsing Aid: Contextual Interface for Process Stage
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Chen, I-Fan
Abstract
Multifaceted browsing interfaces, which provide highly flexible browsing paths, have been widely discussed and adopted in recent years. However, such interfaces cause information overload due to their high flexibility. Therefore, aids that facilitate users’ efforts are called for. This thesis adopts Hill’s framework to depict how users behave in the process stage such as decision making. In addition, we further refine Wu, Chuang, & Joung’s contextual interface for improving the system’s effectiveness. We first integrate a comparison interface into the multifaceted browsing interfaces, and then contextualize the components of the interface used in Hill’s process stage, specification page and comparison interface. Five measurements, namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, disorientation, satisfaction with decision making, and perceived control, are used. Our empirical results show that users perceive the refined contextual interface as useful, easy to use, and control. To conclude, our objective is to provide a better understanding of users’ behavior while using multifaceted browsing interface, as well as the design guidelines to support such behavior.
Subjects
Contextual factor
Contextual interface
Comparison interface
Interface design
Browsing
SDGs
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