The web site provides the possibility to download and examine the most recent documents produced by finalised and ongoing ESPON projects. This basic report exists only in an electronic version.

web, user studies, interview study, design While browsing the Web is a widespread everyday activity there is a shortage of detailed understanding of how users organise their Web usage. In this paper we present results from a qualitative in-depth interview study of how users browse the Web and combine browsing with their other activities. The data are used to explore three particular problems wh...

Since the creation of the web, the designers are looking for friendlier ways of make web page contents, which pictures, sounds, movies and free texts attract the users’ interest. Special attention receive the text content, because is the most frequently parameter used to retrieve information from the web. A simple way in order to understand the user’s text preferences, could be collect the word...

Web Usage Mining (WUM) focus on the interaction behavior between web users and requested Web pages in order to identify navigation patterns. This work describes a case study aimed at investigating the potential of WUM as a framework for supporting the validation of learning site designs. The goal was to model the domain in terms of a WUM application, and to explore abstractions and types of pat...

The web site provides the possibility to download and examine the most recent documents produced by finalised and ongoing ESPON projects. This basic report exists only in an electronic version.

In order for the true potential of Semantic Web agents to be realized, the Semantic Web must contain resources and mechanisms that allow agents to make the same types of qualitative judgments about trust that are intuitively and often unconsciously made by their human counterparts. This paper presents an overview of existing research on trust on the Semantic Web. In this paper, the attributes o...

We propose a method that identifies from Web pages pairs of keywords in which one word describes the other and uses these relations to modify the query. It takes into account the positions of the words in the page structures when counting their occurrences and applies statistical tests to examine the differences between word co-occurrence rates. It finds related keywords more robustly regardles...

Can websites be designed to be both utilitarian and hedonic? This article approaches this question by identifying Web attributes, their direct impacts on experiential flow, and their direct and indirect impacts on the utilitarian and hedonic aspects of Web performance. The results presented here support the proposal that, as an information-laden medium, a successful website must be able to use ...

The web, together with database technology, has radically changed the way scientific research is conducted. Scientists now have access to an unprecedented quantity and range of data, and the speed and ease of communication of all forms of scientific data has increased hugely. This change has come at a price. Web and database technology no longer support some of the desirable properties of paper...