When using traditional search engines, users have to formulate queries to describe their information need. This paper discusses a di erent approach to web searching where the input to the search process is not a set of query terms, but instead is the URL of a page, and the output is a set of related web pages. A related web page is one that addresses the same topic as the original page. For exa...

Predictive Web usage visualizations can help analysts uncover traffic patterns and usability problems. D espite major efforts in Web design research, many sites remain difficult to use. In a recent study of e-commerce sites, for example, users successfully performed only 56 percent of their intended tasks. 1 Forrester Research has reported that 65 percent of all online shopping trips end in fai...

information available on the web can be divided in two main categories. the first category is those information distributed among different websites and servers. the second category is the information gathered in central information databases (infobases) which contain a huge amount of information and are available and searchable through the website representing the infobase. infobase owners sel...

The Web 2.0 was said to bring real innovation, new concepts, and new applications to the Web. The role of a user is upgraded by changing his passive role of information consumer to the role of somebody producing and consuming information at the same time ("prosumer"). In our paper, we discuss the major aspects of the concept Web 2.0 and draw conclusions from our findings by means of theses. It ...

background and objectives: evaluation has an important role in software development. quality is considered in the evaluation of information systems, which depends on usability, availability, validity, compatibility, and response time. this research was performed with the aim of determining the usability of hospital information systems according to the 7 principles of isometric 9241, part 10. me...

As prior empirical and conceptual work indicates, success and usability of web information systems is subject to navigational design. Although web information systems are not a new phenomenon and were examined intensively in the past, holistic in-depth investigations of navigational issues seem to be arbitrary rather than theoretically and conceptually founded. In particular, we argue that we a...

the internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers. according to world tourism organization, about 95% of web users use the internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism web sites when planning for vacations. the number of people turning to the internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more t...

the increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. through the development of semantic web, one major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. this raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. each user knows the trustworthiness of ...

For various good reasons, many businesses are moving from traditional desktop applications towards web based applications. But especially in web based applications, the user system interaction lacks any fluidity that could keep the user in the task flow. Jumps and breaks reduce the usability. Furthermore, the transaction orientedness and static paths of actions in these applications reduce the ...