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Evaluating three museum installations of a hypertext system

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  • Ben Shneiderman
  • Dorothy Brethauer
  • Catherine Plaisant
  • Richard Potter

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This study explores the use of a hypertext system by patrons of three museums. Data on the articles accessed, the time spent in each, the number of times the index was accessed, etc., were collected from a total of more than 5000 sessions. Results show that visitors at all three museums used the embedded menus of the Hyperties hypertext system in moving from one article to another far more than the traditional index. Article selection appears to reflect anticipated interests of patrons at each museum suggesting success in traversing the database. At the third museum, the data collection was complemented by direct observation and interviews of the museum patrons. This last approach appears to be more appropriate to analyze the usage data as well as to improve the user interface and database structure. © 1989 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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  • Ben Shneiderman & Dorothy Brethauer & Catherine Plaisant & Richard Potter, 1989. "Evaluating three museum installations of a hypertext system," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 40(3), pages 172-182, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:40:y:1989:i:3:p:172-182
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198905)40:33.0.CO;2-3
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