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An Empirical Analysis of Web Directory Searching Interface Based on Cognitive Styles |
Ke Qing Sun Jianjun Cheng Ying |
(Department of Information Management,Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093,China) |
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Abstract Some searching interface design principles based on cognitive style models are provided. Selecting Google as testing object, the paper analyzes styles of searching interface, organization of main categories and sub catecories, listing of hit Webs, presentation of searching results and showing of relevant categories. Some improvements are also provided for Google interface.
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Received: 30 October 2008
Published: 25 February 2009
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Corresponding Authors:
Ke Qing
E-mail: keqing@nju.edu.cn
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About author:: Ke Qing,Sun Jianjun,Cheng Ying |
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