• Title/Summary/Keyword: Analysis of Websites

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The Analysis of Informational Structure and Labeling System of Academic School Websites (대학 웹사이트의 정보구조 및 레이블링 시스템 분석)

  • Lee, Seung-Min;Nam, Tae-Woo;Kim, Seong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.39-59
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    • 2006
  • In this study we proposed a new informational structure and category labels to fully support the functions of school websites as an access tool to its contents. The proposed model was divided into three main aspects. First, main menu structure was the primary guideline to access information embedded in a website. Therefore, The proposed main menu structure consisted of 9 categories that are commonly provided by 17 existing school websites. Second, first-level categories consisted of total 35 categories under 9 main menu categories. Each category was placed under certain categories in main menu based on the relationships with the meaning of the upper level categories. Third, the proposed model adopted general and comprehensive terms as category labels. The terms used as category labels were based on the analysis of existing category labels, and the most frequently used terms were selected from the current school websites.

A Study on the Analysis of Current Status of Retrieval Systems on the Library Website for the Improving Accessibility to Library Information Resources of Disabled Users (장애인 이용자의 도서관 정보자원 접근성 향상을 위한 도서관 웹사이트의 검색시스템 현황조사 분석 연구)

  • Baek, Jae-Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.231-254
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    • 2019
  • Library website is medium for connecting library information resources and users. However, searching and accessing methods to information resources in library websites and retrieval systems are mostly designed for users. So, the disabled users have difficulty accessing and using library information resources through library websites. Therefore, the author carried on current status study and analysis on the retrieval system of the national and public library websites in Korea. And then, the author proposes improvement plan in order to enhance satisfaction with information needs of disabled users and to use a basic study for construction of retrieval system of library websites for disabled users.

A Study on the Analysis of Websites Contents in Medical Libraries (의학도서관 웹사이트의 콘텐츠 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Dong-Jo;Kim, Jeong-A
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2010
  • This study examines the status of websites operation among libraries affiliated to the Korean Medical Library Association, compares and analyzes website menu organization and information service contents of 29 medical libraries that currently run websites. The followings are results of this study. 1) the main menu of medical library websites is arranged with 'Search for Library Materials, Electronic Resources, Library Service, My Library, Library Guide, and the Bulletin Board.' 2) 15 services were selected as the main information service provided from the medical library website. 3) the information service that was provided from the most institutions was 'Document Copy/ Interlibrary Loan,' followed by 'Loan Reservation/Renewal, Request Library Purchase Book, Off-campus Access, User Education, Reference Resources, Q&A Board, Our Library Pubmed, and Dissertation Submission' in this order.

Understanding User Motivations and Behavioral Process in Creating Video UGC: Focus on Theory of Implementation Intentions (Video UGC 제작 동기와 행위 과정에 관한 이해: 구현의도이론 (Theory of Implementation Intentions)의 적용을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jin;Song, Se-Min;Lee, Ho-Geun
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.125-148
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    • 2009
  • UGC(User Generated Contents) is emerging as the center of e-business in the web 2.0 era. The trend reflects changing roles of users in production and consumption of contents on websites and helps us to understand new strategies of websites such as web portals and social network websites. Nowadays, we consume contents created by other non-professional users for both utilitarian (e.g., knowledge) and hedonic values (e.g., fun). Also, contents produced by ourselves (e.g., photo, video) are posted on websites so that our friends, family, and even the public can consume those contents. This means that non-professionals, who used to be passive audience in the past, are now creating contents and share their UGCs with others in the Web. Accessible media, tools, and applications have also reduced difficulty and complexity in the process of creating contents. Realizing that users create plenty of materials which are very interesting to other people, media companies (i.e., web portals and social networking websites) are adjusting their strategies and business models accordingly. Increased demand of UGC may lead to website visits which are the source of benefits from advertising. Therefore, they put more efforts into making their websites open platforms where UGCs can be created and shared among users without technical and methodological difficulties. Many websites have increasingly adopted new technologies such as RSS and openAPI. Some have even changed the structure of web pages so that UGC can be seen several times to more visitors. This mainstream of UGCs on websites indicates that acquiring more UGCs and supporting participating users have become important things to media companies. Although those companies need to understand why general users have shown increasing interest in creating and posting contents and what is important to them in the process of productions, few research results exist in this area to address these issues. Also, behavioral process in creating video UGCs has not been explored enough for the public to fully understand it. With a solid theoretical background (i.e., theory of implementation intentions), parts of our proposed research model mirror the process of user behaviors in creating video contents, which consist of intention to upload, intention to edit, edit, and upload. In addition, in order to explain how those behavioral intentions are developed, we investigated influences of antecedents from three motivational perspectives (i.e., intrinsic, editing software-oriented, and website's network effect-oriented). First, from the intrinsic motivation perspective, we studied the roles of self-expression, enjoyment, and social attention in forming intention to edit with preferred editing software or in forming intention to upload video contents to preferred websites. Second, we explored the roles of editing software for non-professionals to edit video contents, in terms of how it makes production process easier and how it is useful in the process. Finally, from the website characteristic-oriented perspective, we investigated the role of a website's network externality as an antecedent of users' intention to upload to preferred websites. The rationale is that posting UGCs on websites are basically social-oriented behaviors; thus, users prefer a website with the high level of network externality for contents uploading. This study adopted a longitudinal research design; we emailed recipients twice with different questionnaires. Guided by invitation email including a link to web survey page, respondents answered most of questions except edit and upload at the first survey. They were asked to provide information about UGC editing software they mainly used and preferred website to upload edited contents, and then asked to answer related questions. For example, before answering questions regarding network externality, they individually had to declare the name of the website to which they would be willing to upload. At the end of the first survey, we asked if they agreed to participate in the corresponding survey in a month. During twenty days, 333 complete responses were gathered in the first survey. One month later, we emailed those recipients to ask for participation in the second survey. 185 of the 333 recipients (about 56 percentages) answered in the second survey. Personalized questionnaires were provided for them to remind the names of editing software and website that they reported in the first survey. They answered the degree of editing with the software and the degree of uploading video contents to the website for the past one month. To all recipients of the two surveys, exchange tickets for books (about 5,000~10,000 Korean Won) were provided according to the frequency of participations. PLS analysis shows that user behaviors in creating video contents are well explained by the theory of implementation intentions. In fact, intention to upload significantly influences intention to edit in the process of accomplishing the goal behavior, upload. These relationships show the behavioral process that has been unclear in users' creating video contents for uploading and also highlight important roles of editing in the process. Regarding the intrinsic motivations, the results illustrated that users are likely to edit their own video contents in order to express their own intrinsic traits such as thoughts and feelings. Also, their intention to upload contents in preferred website is formed because they want to attract much attention from others through contents reflecting themselves. This result well corresponds to the roles of the website characteristic, namely, network externality. Based on the PLS results, the network effect of a website has significant influence on users' intention to upload to the preferred website. This indicates that users with social attention motivations are likely to upload their video UGCs to a website whose network size is big enough to realize their motivations easily. Finally, regarding editing software characteristic-oriented motivations, making exclusively-provided editing software more user-friendly (i.e., easy of use, usefulness) plays an important role in leading to users' intention to edit. Our research contributes to both academic scholars and professionals. For researchers, our results show that the theory of implementation intentions is well applied to the video UGC context and very useful to explain the relationship between implementation intentions and goal behaviors. With the theory, this study theoretically and empirically confirmed that editing is a different and important behavior from uploading behavior, and we tested the behavioral process of ordinary users in creating video UGCs, focusing on significant motivational factors in each step. In addition, parts of our research model are also rooted in the solid theoretical background such as the technology acceptance model and the theory of network externality to explain the effects of UGC-related motivations. For practitioners, our results suggest that media companies need to restructure their websites so that users' needs for social interaction through UGC (e.g., self-expression, social attention) are well met. Also, we emphasize strategic importance of the network size of websites in leading non-professionals to upload video contents to the websites. Those websites need to find a way to utilize the network effects for acquiring more UGCs. Finally, we suggest that some ways to improve editing software be considered as a way to increase edit behavior which is a very important process leading to UGC uploading.

How different is a web site that many people visit?-focused on the Plastic Surgery Websites in Korea (많은 사람이 방문하는 웹 사이트는 무엇이 다를까? - 2011년 성형외과 웹 사이트의 경우 -)

  • Cho, Yeong-Bin;Kim, Chae-Bogk
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.43-62
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    • 2013
  • In order to know the characteristics of high visit web sites that many people have visited, 37 high visit websites of plastic surgery were compared to 69 benchmark sites of same industry. We selected 36 web site attributes that can be measured objectively from existing studies and composed the data set of 36 attributes multiplied by 106 websites. For analysis, Multiple Discriminant Analysis(MDA) and Decision Tree Technique are conducted for searching what attributes divide two group definitely. The result of this study shows the dividing attributes fall into 3 categories like 'Community', 'Mobile', 'Up to date'. Thus, we are able to conclude that high visit plastic surgery web sites are community centric site but not contents centric, response a change to mobile environment rapidly and are maintained with tide up to date. The methodology employed in this study provides an efficient way of improving satisfaction of visitors of plastic surgery website.

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Sentiment Analysis of User-Generated Content on Drug Review Websites

  • Na, Jin-Cheon;Kyaing, Wai Yan Min
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.6-23
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    • 2015
  • This study develops an effective method for sentiment analysis of user-generated content on drug review websites, which has not been investigated extensively compared to other general domains, such as product reviews. A clause-level sentiment analysis algorithm is developed since each sentence can contain multiple clauses discussing multiple aspects of a drug. The method adopts a pure linguistic approach of computing the sentiment orientation (positive, negative, or neutral) of a clause from the prior sentiment scores assigned to words, taking into consideration the grammatical relations and semantic annotation (such as disorder terms) of words in the clause. Experiment results with 2,700 clauses show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and it performed significantly better than the baseline approaches using a machine learning approach. Various challenging issues were identified and discussed through error analysis. The application of the proposed sentiment analysis approach will be useful not only for patients, but also for drug makers and clinicians to obtain valuable summaries of public opinion. Since sentiment analysis is domain specific, domain knowledge in drug reviews is incorporated into the sentiment analysis algorithm to provide more accurate analysis. In particular, MetaMap is used to map various health and medical terms (such as disease and drug names) to semantic types in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Semantic Network.

A Study on the Website Encounter Analysis for Improving Healthcare Service Design -Focusing on Private Hospital Website in Busan- (의료서비스디자인 개선전략을 위한 웹사이트 접점 분석에 관한 연구 -부산시에 소재한 개인병원 웹사이트를 중심으로-)

  • Hwang, Mi-Kyung;Kwon, Mahn-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.597-605
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    • 2017
  • Although the medicine is developed to support the quality of treatment, if we do not increase the quality of health care for customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction does not rise any more. The competitiveness of the hospital slows down since the visitor to the hospital is reduced. It is medical reason that the focus of the medical information moves from doctors to customers. This study analyzed websites, the private hospital located in Busan. The websites provide contact information; web-based information from health services is increasing. Statistical analysis was carried out cross analysis using available variables on websites by using the SPSS 21.0 for Version. Departments were also significant, depending on the health services by the external contact elements and contact elements designed to study the problem in analyzing the results presented in this study. This means the contact is different by departments. The results of this study is to better consider the Departments website when making specific characteristics we expect the increase of health care quality and patient satisfaction.

Art Gallery website and content analysis on the elements of the leading marketing research (아트갤러리 웹사이트의 마케팅 요소와 컨텐츠에 관한 분석연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Chae
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.265-287
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    • 2009
  • Most of the art gallery has been running their own websites. Not only in physical space but also in cyber space, they are achieving their goals through introducing exhibition and the artist and selling the artist's works. To this end, what are considered important items to the website contents of a large art gallery are assessed. These items include the goals and the mission of the art gallery, the targets of users, the scope of the information, the payment of information fees, relationships with other resources, reliability, accuracy and objectivity. And the analysis of these assessments are to promote the content of the gallery's website, and how to further promote customer satisfaction through the help is provided.

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Measuring Importance of Online Apparel Stores' Design Attributes Using Three Different Methods

  • Oh, Keunyoung;Lee, MiYoung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.127-138
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    • 2015
  • Due to the virtual nature of online businesses, online apparel stores need to enhance the consumer experience by utilizing store design attributes to provide their customers relevant and sufficient information. Since online apparel stores mainly communicate with their customers virtually and digitally, it is important to understand how consumers perceive and react to different design attributes commonly found on apparel stores' online websites. The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of design attributes commonly found on online apparel stores' websites using three different importance measurements. The design attributes examined in this study include enlarged pictures, product detail pictures, product reviews by other buyers, coordinating items, and size measurement charts. The three different measurements used in this study include two direct measures and one indirect measure using conjoint analysis. Across the three different measures, both the men and women indicated that enlarged pictures represent the most important design attribute when they purchase clothes online followed by size measurement charts and they considered the availability of coordinating items the least important design attribute.

A Study on Frequency Analysis of Websites Quality Evaluation Factors (웹사이트 품질평가 요인들의 빈도분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Youngjik
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, 99 evaluation factors for website quality were derived from 79 research papers. Among them, 19 factors which are quoted in more than 7 research papers are summarized. The followings show such summarized factors: (1) Reliability (2) Ease of use (3) Design (4) Response time (5) Information Quality (6) Learnability (7) Accessibility (8) Effectiveness (9) Navigation (10) Sensibility (11) Accuracy (12) Contents (13) Aesthetic Impression (14) Completeness (15) Sympathy (16) Security (17) Delivery (18) Interaction (19) Responsibility.