Abstract
Educational websites and electronic encyclopaedias employ many of the same design elements, such as hyperlinks, frames and search mechanisms. This paper asks to what extent recommendations from the world of web design can be applied to e-encyclopaedias, through an evaluation of users' browsing and searching behaviour in the free, web-based versions of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Concise Columbia Encyclopaedia and Microsoft's Encarta. It is discovered that e-encyclopaedias have a unique set of design requirements, as users' expectations are inherited from the worlds of both web and print.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Apr 2004 |
| Event | Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur 2004 - Avignon, France Duration: 26 Apr 2004 → 28 Apr 2004 |
Conference
| Conference | Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur 2004 |
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| Abbreviated title | RIAO 2004 |
| Country/Territory | France |
| City | Avignon |
| Period | 26/04/04 → 28/04/04 |
| Other | An Information Retrieval (IR) conference. |
Keywords
- e-encyclopaedias
- web design
- hyperlinking
- browsing
- searching