Designing a Better User Interface with a Context Path: An Empirical Study on User Learning Styles

This paper primarily examines the differences between how various users with different learning style preferences interact with computers in the global hypertext information network of the World Wide Web. Is it possible to design user interfaces that are equally effective for all the various computer users? This study was undertaken with two main goals in mind. Two aspects of research findings from empirical studies on usability of user interfaces on the World Wide Web are that: (1) it examines users who have varied styles of learning from visual, audio, to kinesthetic and their interactions with various user interfaces; and (2) it compares task performance, confidence, and satisfaction among various user interfaces on the Web. Implications of these results for various interfaces are discussed

Smart Crawler a Three Phase Crawler for Mining Deep Web Databases

The Web has been immediately "extended" by crowd searchable databases on the web, where information is holed up behind inquiry interfaces. The Deep Web, i.e., content holed up behind HTML forms, has for some time been perceived as a critical hole in internet searcher scope. Since it addresses a broad fragment of the organized information on the Web, getting to Deep-Web content has been a longstanding test for the database group. The fast advancement of the World-Wide Web postures remarkable scaling challenges for all around valuable crawlers and web search tools. This paper study on various techniques for profound web interfaces furthermore concentrates on crawlers. As profound web creates at a snappy pace, there has been extended eagerness for methods that help capably with find profound web interfaces. On the other hand, in light of the significant volume of web resources and the dynamic method for profound web, finishing wide degree and high adequacy is a testing issue. To beat this issue proposes a two-arrange structure, in particular Smart Crawler, for effective gathering profound web interfaces. Likewise proposes a framework which actualizes new classifier Na?ve Bayes rather than SVM for searchable form classifier (SFC) and a domain-specific form classifier (DSFC). Proposed framework is contributing new module in light of client login for chose enrolled clients who can surf the specific domain as indicated by given contribution by the client. This is module is likewise utilized for separating the outcomes

Sensory semantic user interfaces (SenSUI)

Rapid evolution of the World Wide Web with its underlying sources of data, knowledge, services and applications continually attempts to support a variety of users, with different backgrounds, requirements and capabilities. In such an environment, it is highly unlikely that a single user interface will prevail and be able to fulfill the requirements of each user adequately. Adaptive user interfaces are able to adapt information and application functionalities to the user context. In contrast, pervasive computing and sensor networks open new opportunities for context aware platforms, one that is able to improve user interface adaptation reacting to environmental and user sensors. Semantic web technologies and ontologies are able to capture sensor data and provide contextual information about the user, their actions, required applications and environment. This paper investigates the viability of an approach where semantic web technologies are used to maximize the efficacy of interface adaptation through the use of available ontology

A Comparative Analysis of Maritime Universities Websites

Nowadays, the Internet, i.e. its leading services like the World Wide Web are unavoidable in communications, providing services and information sharing. Websites and a variety of Internet pages that make up the World Wide Web are the primary user interfaces for online business, providing information and promotional activities on the Internet. The rapid and progressive development of this medium has led to the fact that there is almost no maritime education institution without its own website, or at least a web page. The quality and success of the presentation via the Internet and the development of websites in a way to suit users’ needs still remain a problem, not only for designers and managers but also for owners, representing an incentive for the analysis and research in the field of maritime colleges. In evaluating user interfaces, including websites, different approaches and methods are used where the usability, due to its widespread use, is most often considered as the main factor of quality. In this paper, usability factors of websites are analyzed using the questionnaire method and available online tools for 20 maritime universities worldwide and the obtained results are presented as well as recommendations for further researches

Methods for Evaluating the Usability of Web-Based Systems

Due to the widespread use of the World Wide Web, many organizations are creating web sites and developing web interfaces for their existing information systems. Surprisingly however, there appears to be little evidence that organizations systematically evaluate the usability of their web-based systems. The usability of a web site defines how well and how easily a visitor, without formal training, can use the site. Clearly, better usability will result in more efficient interaction between the user and the site and could have important implications for the acceptance of web-based systems. This paper reviews different usability testing methods and describes how protocol analysis (or think aloud ) can be used to test web site usability

Knowledge graph of press clippings referring social minorities

Major Minors is a project that collects press clippings from Portuguese newspapers (currently from 1996 until 2019) which refer subjects related with minorities. Its datasource is the Arquivo.pt (repository of the past Portuguese World Wide Web). This data was used to generate ontologies (RDF triplestores composing a semantic database) and interfaces to interact with them (SPARQL APIs following W3C standards for Semantic Web). We enriched this basis with new ramifications, by identifying and crossing references with 19 entities. This paper describes the methodologies implemented to develop this Knowledge Graph.(undefined

Tadzebao and WebOnto: discussing, browsing, and editing ontologies on the Web

In this paper I describe two systems which, in different ways, address the shortcomings of current approaches to enabling ontology construction and use via the World-Wide Web. The first system Tadzebao, enables knowledge engineers to hold synchronous and asynchronous discussions about ontologies. Tadzebao addresses the fact that an integral part of communal design, dialogue, has largely been ignored by the community. The second system WebOnto uses a Java based client to alleviate the acknowledged problems of creating interfaces in `vanilla HTML'

Personalized home pages - a working environment on the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is one of the most common interfaces to the Internet and thus to the global office as it provides an easy-to-use and self-explaining user interface for teleworkers. However WWW based interfaces are relatively rigid and are lacking ways of user customization or setting preferences. The new service oriented approach presented here builds upon the strength of the WWW interface to Internet services but enhances it by the power of individual customization. The Personalized Home Page (PHP) system is built on a framework capable to describe all Internet services in a uniform way using the terminology of weak agency. This paper gives an overview of the PHP system with a short description of the agent based framework behind. Examples introduce the actual use of the system

Usability analysis of the user interface of movie-related websites in terms of universal design

The aim of the paper is the usability analysis of the user interface of movie-related websites in terms of universal design. The analysis was performed in order to verify the influence of fulfilling the universal design concepts on services usability. The studies were based on two interfaces: Filmweb and the one designed by the authors. For the purpose of analysis the following research methods were used: questionnaires, eye-tracker and validator tests. Moreover, there was compliance with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards checked. Ten participants aged 23-25 took part in the study. Results analysis have shown that fulfilling universal design conceptions significantly increases usability of the interface