OBJECTIVES Health-related websites are an important source of information for the public. Increasing public awareness of overdiagnosis and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in breast cancer screening may facilitate more informed decision-making. This study assessed the extent to which such information was included on prominent health websites oriented towards the general public, and evaluated how...

News and blog websites often have political bias (such as Republican, Democratic) in their articles. Automatic detection of the bias will improve personalized feed and categorization of news and blog articles. Our project aims to predict Republican vs. Democratic bias of news websites and political blogs using the phrases (a.k.a. memes) they quote in their text. We form a bipartite graph of web...

Clickjacking is an attack that tricks victims into clicking on invisible elements of a web page to perform an unintended action that is advantageous for an attacker. To defend against clickjacking, many techniques have already been proposed, but it is still unclear whether they are effectively deployed in practice. We study how vulnerable Korean websites are to clickjacking attacks by performin...

This paper presents an empirical study on problems encountered by users with dyslexia when using websites. The study was performed by a user evaluation of 16 websites by a panel of 13 participants with dyslexia, each participant evaluating 10 websites. The results presented in the paper are based on 693 instances of accessibility and usability problems. Most frequent problems were related to na...

Even though efforts have been made to reduce the informational gap resulting from web inaccessibility, websites from virtually every type of organization have major accessibility problems. This study used an automated software tool to evaluate the accessibility of four Korean government and four U.S. government websites. Results were compared between the Korean and the U.S. government websites ...

In this paper, we have studied a dynamic model to explain the observed power law distribution for the popularity of websites in the WWW. The dynamic model includes the self growth for each website and the external force acting on the website. With numerical simulations of the model, we can explain most of the important characteristics of websites, such as a power law distribution of the number ...

BACKGROUND Internet websites and smartphone apps have become a popular resource to guide parents in their children's feeding and nutrition. Given the diverse range of websites and apps on infant feeding, the quality of information in these resources should be assessed to identify whether consumers have access to credible and reliable information. OBJECTIVE This systematic analysis provides pe...