The depth/breadth trade-off in the design of menu-driven user interfaces
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Designing for usability: key principles and what designers think
Communications of the ACM
Psychological issues of human-computer interaction in the work place
Effects of breadth, depth and number responses on computer menu search performance
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Development of an instrument measuring user satisfaction of the human-computer interface
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Search improvement via automatic query reformulation
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue on research and development in information retrieval
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Hypermedia and cognition: designing for comprehension
Communications of the ACM
Web page design: implications of memory, structure and scent for information retrieval
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Selection from alphabetic and numeric menu trees using a touch screen: breadth, depth, and width
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lost in hyperspace: cognitive mapping and navigation in a hypertext environment
Hypertext: theory into practice
Web usability: a review of the research
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Managing Web-enabled technologies in organizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
System response time operator productivity, and job satisfaction
Communications of the ACM
The technology acceptance model and the World Wide Web
Decision Support Systems
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Current technological impediments to business-to-consumer electronic commerce
Communications of the AIS
Transparent Queries: investigation users' mental models of search engines
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
Repairing usability problems identified by the cognitive walkthrough for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating the Impact of Dss, Cognitive Effort, and Incentives on Strategy Selection
Information Systems Research
Measuring Factors that Influence the Success of Internet Commerce
Information Systems Research
The Measurement of Web-Customer Satisfaction: An Expectation and Disconfirmation Approach
Information Systems Research
DIS '02 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Computer response time and user performance.
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using examples to describe categories
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding the role of client characteristics, expectations, and desires in packaged software satisfaction
The direct and interactive effects of web site delay length, delay variability, and feedback on user attitudes, performance, and intentions
ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Effects of scent and breadth on use of site-specific search on e-commerce Web sites
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Response time in man-computer conversational transactions
AFIPS '68 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 9-11, 1968, fall joint computer conference, part I
Attributes of Web Site Usability: A Study of Web Users with the Repertory Grid Technique
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Problem solving of low data throughput on mobile devices by artefacts prebuffering
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing
The interaction effects of familiarity, breadth and media usage on web browsing experience
Computers in Human Behavior
Internet Technologies, ECRM Capabilities, and Performance Benefits for SMEs: An Exploratory Study
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Usercentric Operational Decision Making in Distributed Information Retrieval
Information Systems Research
Characterizing web use on smartphones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Advertising Strategies in Electronic Retailing: A Differential Games Approach
Information Systems Research
A Data-Driven Approach to Measure Web Site Navigability
Journal of Management Information Systems
Goal attainment on long tail web sites: An information foraging approach
Decision Support Systems
The effects of website familiarity on website quality and intention to use
HCI International'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction design - Volume Part I
Evaluating the perceived and estimated quality in use of Web 2.0 applications
Journal of Systems and Software
Predictivity of system delays shortens human response time
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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Although its popularity is widespread, the Web is well known for one particular drawback: its frequent delay when moving from one page to another. This experimental study examined whether delay and two other website design variables (site breadth and content familiarity) have interaction effects on user performance, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. The three experimental factors (delay, familiarity, and breadth) collectively impact the cognitive costs and penalties that users incur when making choices in their search for target information. An experiment was conducted with 160 undergraduate business majors in a completely counterbalanced, fully factorial design that exposed them to two websites and asked them to browse the sites for nine pieces of information. Results showed that all three factors have strong direct impacts on performance and user attitudes, in turn affecting behavioral intentions to return to the site, as might be expected. A significant three-way interaction was found between all three factors indicating that these factors not only individually impact a users experiences with a website, but also act in combination to either increase or decrease the costs a user incurs. Two separate analyses support an assertion that attitudes mediate the relationship of the three factors on behavioral intentions. The implications of these results for both researchers and practitioners are discussed. Additional research is needed to discover other factors that mitigate or accentuate the effects of delay, other effects of delay, and under what amounts of delay these effects occur.