Browsing by Subject "internet"

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    Alternative scenarios to the “banner” years: A test of alternative formats to Web banner ads
    (2008-02) Taylor, Nolan J.; Loiacano, Eleanor T.; Watson, Richard T.
    A test of alternative formats to Web banner ads.
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    Daily Situational Brief, May 4, 2011
    (MESH Coalition, 5/4/2011) MESH Coalition
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    Information foraging on the web: The effects of “acceptable” Internet delays on multi-page information search behavior
    (2006-11) Taylor, Nolan J.; Dennis, Alan R.
    Web delays are a persistent and highly publicized problem. Long delays have been shown to reduce information search, but less is known about the impact of more modest “acceptable” delays — delays that do not substantially reduce user satisfaction. Prior research suggests that as the time and effort required to complete a task increases, decision-makers tend to reduce information search at the expense of decision quality. In this study, the effects of an acceptable time delay (seven seconds) on information search behavior were examined. Results showed that increased time and effort caused by acceptable delays provoked increased information search.
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    Peer Support in the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Adolescents: A Review of the Literature and Available Resources
    (MDPI, 2020-09-07) Tolley, James A.; Michel, Marti A.; Williams, Amy E.; Renschler, Janelle S.; Anesthesia, School of Medicine
    Peer support has found applications beyond the mental health field and is useful for managing several chronic disorders and supporting healthy lifestyle choices. Communication through telephone and the Internet allows for greater access to those who cannot meet in person. Adolescent chronic pain would seem ideally suited to benefit from online peer support groups. Research is lacking, however, to characterize benefit in terms of pain and function, despite a clear desire among adolescents for access to such programs. More rapid development of online applications is needed for peer support, and research into the associated outcomes will be necessary to optimally design such programs.
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    Public grid computing participation: An exploratory study of determinants
    (2007-01) Taylor, Nolan J.
    Using the Internet, “public” computing grids can be assembled using “volunteered” PCs. To achieve this, volunteers download and install a software application capable of sensing periods of low local processor activity. During such times, this program on the local PC downloads and processes a subset of the project's data. At the completion of processing, the results are uploaded to the project and the cycle repeats. Public grids are being used for a wide range of endeavors, from searching for signals suggesting extraterrestrial life to finding a cure for cancer. Despite the potential benefits, however, participation has been relatively low. The work reported here, drawing from technology acceptance and volunteer literature, suggests that the grid operator's reputation, the project's perceived need, and the level of volunteering activity of the PC owner are significant determinants of participation in grid projects. Attitude, in addition to personal innovativeness and level of volunteering activity, predicted intentions to join the project. Thus, methods traditionally used for motivating volunteer behavior may be effective in promoting the use of grid computing.
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    Situation Normality and the Shape of Search: The Effects of Time Delays and Information Presentation on Search Behavior
    (2013-05) Taylor, Nolan J.; Dennis, Alan R.; Cummings, Jeff W.
    Delays have become one of the most often cited complaints of web users. Long delays often cause users to abandon their searches, but how do tolerable delays affect information search behavior? Intuitively, we would expect that tolerable delays should induce decreased information search. We conducted two experiments and found that as delay increased, a point occurs at which time within-page information search increases; that is, search behavior remained the same until a tipping point occurs where delay increases the depth of search. We argue that situation normality explains this phenomenon; users have become accustomed to tolerable delays up to a point (our research suggests between 7 and 11 s), after which search behavior changes. That is, some delay is expected, but as delay becomes noticeable but not long enough to cause the abandonment of search, an increase occurs in the “stickiness” of webpages such that users examine more information on each page before moving to new pages. The net impact of tolerable delays was counterintuitive: tolerable delays had no impact on the total amount of data searched in the first experiment, but induced users to examine more data points in the second experiment.