Suppose you are in your first year as an assistant professor-in your dream job in a small liberal arts college-with an assignment to teach a course in neuroscience to a class of eager, bright, upper-level undergraduates. Amongst the resources that you might expect to tap would be, perhaps, the Web site of the Society for Neuroscience (www.sfn.org). Maybe you have had experience with the Web sit...

Appropriately applied, usability testing is a worthy tool. However, it imperfectly informs Web site design. This article will briefly describe usability testing, review literature that considers (or fails to consider) its limitations, and propose that content and rhetorical analyses can compensate for usability testing's limitations. Finally, the article argues that a broader analytical approac...

BACKGROUND More people than ever are turning to the Internet for health-related information, and recent studies indicate that the information patients find online directly affects the decisions they make about their health care. Little is known about the information needs or actual search behavior of people who use the Internet for health information. OBJECTIVE This study analyzes what people...

OBJECTIVE Unmet health needs experienced by new mothers may potentially be reduced by the use of Internet-based information, advice, decision support, and social networking. New mothers' Web site preferences must be understood in order to develop successful Internet-delivered healthcare information. The purpose of this study is to determine the Web site preferences of new mothers in order to be...

Web recommender systems anticipate the information needs of on-line users and provide them with recommendations to facilitate and personalize their navigation. A variety of approaches have been attempted and proposed. Among them, using Web access logs to generate users’ navigational profiles for recommendation is a popular one, given its non-intrusiveness. However, using only one information ch...

World-Wide Web, workload characterization, performance, servers, caching, World Cup This paper presents a detailed workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web site. Measurements from this site were collected over a three month period. During this time the site received 1.35 billion requests, making this the largest Web workload analyzed to date. By examining this extremely busy si...

This paper describes the implementation of an association analysis method to process Web site data. The association analysis makes use of Web site links in order to produce a representation of sites association structure. A description of the association network is the goal to reach. The data refers to 791 university sites from the 15 countries belonging to the European Union. The purpose is to...

Assessing a map's accuracy and efficacy requires careful consideration calculation of comprehensive set measures, particularly when characteristics in geospatial datasets may be used for addressing multiple objectives. We describe map assessment framework categorical data over large areas that utilizes site-specific (plot-pixel), non-site specific (area estimates), comparative (spatial statisti...