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Ten usability principles for the development of effective WAP and m‐commerce services

Condos, Chris; James, Anne; Every, Peter; Simpson, Terry - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 6, pp. 345-355

This paper reports on the results of a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) usability study, which consists of a survey, an evaluation of two UK WAP portals and an experiment that was carried out between November 2001 and February 2002. A number of usability issues, which prevented the users from...

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What chance serious debate in the modern media?

Cole, Peter - In: Aslib Proceedings 53 (2001) 4, pp. 124-129

A content analysis of the coverage of European Union stories in British daily newspapers. Three months of newspapers were scanned an a daily basis and their pro and anti stance monitored. Includes an analysis of websites. The results show that for both hardcopy newspapers and their online...

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Mildly irritating: a WAP usability study

Ramsay, Marc; Huntington, Paul - In: Aslib Proceedings 53 (2001) 4, pp. 141-158

The Internet is poised to go mobile. Much has been said about the technology that will make this possible, but little … about what potential users expect from WAP and mobile Internet. This article is based on the experiences of 20 test users … Internet and gives a strong indication as to what the users would want from such a service. …

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Positioning techniques for location‐based services (LBS): characteristics and limitations of proposed solutions

Mountain, David; Raper, Jonathan - In: Aslib Proceedings 53 (2001) 10, pp. 404-412

Location‐based services are touted as the ‘killer applications’ of the mobile information revolution. This paper highlights some of the technical characteristics and limitations inherent in current mobile positioning technologies in order to set the current optimism surrounding...

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E‐mail law

Eisenschitz, Tamara - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 1, pp. 41-47

The distinction is made between regulation of the Internet in general and of e‐mail. Five topics are presented …

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The market for electronic newspapers in the Arab world

AlShehri, Fayez; Gunter, Barrie - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 1, pp. 56-70

Internet. For most, the Internet was regarded as an important news source and more than half the respondents claimed to read … Arab online newspapers every day. Internet news was valued because it was readily available all the time, free of charge …

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Psychological aspects of information seeking on the Internet

Joinson, Adam; Banyard, Phil - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 2, pp. 95-102

Two studies are presented that investigate information seeking behaviour on the Internet. In study one, soccer fans …

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A user‐oriented evaluation of digital libraries: case study the “electronic journals” service of the library and information service of the University of Patras, Greece

Monopoli, Maria; Nicholas, David; Georgiou, Panagiotis; … - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 2, pp. 103-117

Provides an evaluation of the use of the electronic journals service of the library and information service of the University of Patras, Greece. Asks who these electronic journals service users are, how often they use the service, what their reasons for use are, where their access points for use...

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An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university Web sites

Thelwall, Mike - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 2, pp. 118-126

Aggregates of links are of interest to information scientists in the same way as citation counts are: as potential sources of data from which new knowledge can be mined. Builds on the recent discovery of a correlation between a Web link count measure and the research quality of British...

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Doc.com: reviewing the literature on remote health information provision

Williams, Peter; Nicholas, David; Huntington, Paul; … - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 2, pp. 127-141

for the consumer, to provide a context for current work being undertaken by the Internet Studies Research Group (ISRG …

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