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Theng, Yin Leng; Mohd-Nasir, Norliza; Buchanan, George; Fields, Bob; Thimbleby, Harold; Cassidy, Noel – 2001
The design of systems, including digital libraries, is often inspired by what technology makes possible. In user-centered design, design emphasizes users, their tasks and needs. The majority of current digital libraries are not designed for children. For digital libraries to be popular with children, they need to be fun and easy-to-use. This paper…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design

Stover, Mark; Zink, Steven D. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1996
A review of college and university library home pages concluded that many higher education home pages are badly designed, difficult to navigate, and a poor reflection on the institution. The most common shortcoming was the tendency to create too many links or overly large graphics. An appendix lists points to consider when constructing a home…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Graphics, Design Preferences, Higher Education
Hedman, Anders; Lenman, Soren – 2002
This paper compares and discusses the results from two user studies of interactive television (ITV) with a total of 50 subjects. The interfaces of two different ITV information services were studied: one with a place-like interface rich in graphics, animation and audio, and the other a simple interface with text and still images. In the first…
Descriptors: Animation, Audiovisual Aids, Comparative Analysis, Computer Graphics

Kim, Su Hee; Eastman, Caroline M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Describes an experiment in which presentation size and text length is varied in a HyperCard application. Students performed a fact-retrieval task from a reference handbook. No interaction is found between these two independent variables. Performance is significantly better for the longer texts, but no significant difference is found for the two…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Design Preferences, Electronic Text
Cochenour, John J.; And Others – 1995
As information delivery systems on the Internet increasingly evolve into World Wide Web browsers, understanding key graphical elements of the browser interface is critical to the design of effective information display and access tools. Image maps are one such element, and this document describes a pilot study that collected, reviewed, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Design Preferences
Boling, Elizabeth; Brown, J. P.; Ray, Sumitra Das; Erwin, Anthony; Kirkley, Sonny – 1998
The development of potentially powerful computer-based tools within rich learning environments is hampered by the constraints of delivery systems (specifically low-resolution, low-real estate displays). In designing a World Wide Web-based tool for manipulating time-based information, the authors have encountered a lack of guidelines or empirical…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Design Preferences

Kacmar, Charles J.; Carlson, John R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Results of two studies of user design preferences for link markers--entities that signify pathways to additional information in hypermedia information systems--indicate that, in general, link markers that employ color and bound objects are the most effective in communicating the existence and extent of links and are most preferred by users.…
Descriptors: Color, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Design Preferences
Pacheco, Janice; Day, Barbara Taylor; Cribelli, Susan; Jordan, John; Murry, Brandon; Persichitte, Kay A. – 1999
The study investigated the elements of font size and line spacing in World Wide Web menus for both a scrolled and not scrolled condition with a sample of undergraduate university students. Subjects were 185 students enrolled in 13 section of educational technology preservice teacher courses at the University of Northern Colorado. Students were…
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Menu Driven Software
Frick, Theodore; Monson, John A.; Xaver, Richard F.; Kilic, Gulsen; Conley, Aaron T.; Wamey, Beatrice – 1999
There are several approaches a World Wide Web site designer considers in developing a menu structure. One consideration is the content of the menus (what choices are available to the user). Another consideration is the physical layout of the menu structure. The physical layout of a menu may be described as being one of at least three different…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Design Preferences, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Bilal, Dania – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Using a participatory approach, 11 middle school children created paper prototypes for Web search engines. The prototypes were analyzed in relation to content-related spaces, specific spaces, general spaces, instruction spaces, and other spaces. Children's comments about the purposes of the interfaces were analyzed in terms of functionality and…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Design Preferences
Szul, Linda; Berry, Louis – 1996
As the use of computers has become more common in society, human engineering and ergonomics have lagged behind the sciences which developed the equipment. Some research has been done in the past on the effects of screen colors on computer use efficiency, but results were inconclusive. This paper describes a study of the impact of screen color…
Descriptors: Color, Color Planning, Design Preferences, Higher Education
Chen, Ming-Pu; And Others – 1996
Some of the elements instructional designers must consider when designing screens for computer based instruction (CBI) include legibility, readability, and particularly font size. The purpose of this study was to determine which size font is most effective for CBI. Participants were 163 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer System Design
Boling, Elizabeth; Ma, Guoping; Tao, Chia-Wen; Askun, Cengiz; Green, Tim; Frick, Theodore; Schaumburg, Heike – 1999
Users of content-based software programs, including hypertexts and instructional multimedia, rely on the navigation functions provided by the designers of those program. Typical navigation schemes use abstract symbols (arrows) to label basic navigational functions like moving forward or backward through screen displays. In a previous study, the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development
Knupfer, Nancy Nelson; And Others – 1997
This study examined the design, aesthetics, and functionality of educational and noneducational Web pages from the perspective of visual literacy. Educational Web pages were subdivided into K-12 and college/university settings, and the non-education categories included commercial, publications and communications, informational and cultural, and…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Computer Graphics, Content Analysis, Design Preferences
Bradshaw, Amy C. – 1998
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of presentation interference on students' ability to learn from, and their beliefs regarding, computer-generated presentations. Informed by single-element screen design studies and professional practice, this combined-element study compared a contextually based, intentionally interference free…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Software Development, Courseware
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