expert discovery is a quest in search of finding an answer to a question: “who is the best expert of a specific subject in a particular domain within peculiar array of parameters?” expert with domain knowledge in any field is crucial for consulting in industry, academia and scientific community. aim of this study is to address the issues for expert-finding task in real-world community. collabor...

Scientific literacy is a critical skill that requires the ability to deeply comprehend difficult scientific concepts. However, comprehending science texts is often a challenge for low-knowledge readers. This research assessed the effectiveness of an automated reading strategy training program (iSTART) to improve comprehension for low-knowledge students. Eighty-four high school students were eit...

Web sites have been extensively used to provide information to consumers. While practitioners and researchers have proposed different criteria for effective Web site design based on common sense, intuition, and rules-ofthumb, effective Web site design focusing on the quality of the information it provides has rarely been studied. In this research, we propose a framework and develop an instrumen...

Creating an adaptive web site, which is a web site that automatically changes its contents and organization according to usage, is a challenge for web site designers. We introduce a novel algorithm for creating an adaptive web site based on combining web usage mining and adaptive web site generation. We outline the design of a system called WebAdaptor that implements our ideas. We elaborate on ...

Web sites often provide the first impression of an organization. For many organizations, web sites are crucial to ensure sales or to procure services within. When a person opens a web site, the first impression is probably made in a few seconds, and the user will either stay or move on to the next site on the basis of many factors. One of the factors that may influence users to stay or go is th...

Since the origin of the web site in the first part of the 90’s there has been discussions regarding the relative weighting of function and aesthetics. A renewed discussion is needed, however, to clarify what exactly is meant by aesthetics in web design. Moreover the balance between aesthetics and function ought to be considered more in respect to the target group and the genre of web site.

Electronic multimedia publishing is increasingly becoming a major industrial activity, and the design of web applications and hypermedia applications in general needs to become a well-organized and efficient process. The most important factor in making web design efficient and effective is the availability of a suitable design model. Considering that no model can be exploited to its maximum pot...

Colour has the potential to elicit emotions or behaviors, yet there is little research in which colour treatments in website design are systematically tested. Little is known about how colour affects trust or satisfaction on the part of the viewer. Although the Internet is increasingly global, few systematic studies have been undertaken in which the impact of colour on culturally diverse viewer...

In this paper I discuss the common pitfalls and misconceptions assocated with designing appropriate, useable and functional websites and how the end-user is affected by these errors. Topics discussed cover both technical and non-technical aspects of this subject, including the myriad of human issues associated with the use of online resources and interfaces.

This paper proposes a tool to assist web site publishers in improving their web site design. The tool uses an analysis technique that discovers the gap between web site publisher expectations and user behavior. The former are extracted by measuring the inter-page conceptual relevance and/or link connectivity. On the other hand, the latter is extracted by measuring the inter-page access co-occur...