Authoring and information seeking on the world-wide web : an experimental study.

• Main Author: Ilcheva, Stoyanka Atchkova.
• Other Authors: Horton, J. W.
• Language: en_ZA
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Internet.; World Wide Web > Evaluation.; Theses > Library and information science.; Information retrieval > Research.; Information storage and retrieval systems > Evaluation.; Hypertext systems.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6006

The research reported in this thesis is focused on some of the implications for Library and Information Science of the development of the Internet, and the World-Wide Web (WWW) in particular. It highlights the need for a wider involvement of this profession in the better management, organisation, and ultimately - usability, of the global information system. An extensive study of the information seeking process was carried out on a collection of interlinked hypertext documents constituting a PC-based model of the World-Wide Web. Special attention was paid to the correlation of WWW document authoring characteristics and the success rate in browsing sessions performed by novice, casual and experienced Internet end-users. The analysis of the results from a number of browsing sessions on the model led to some specific recommendations for comprehension-oriented WWW authoring. === Thesis (M.I.S.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1997.