Web Pages For Users Research Articles

Exploring the use of satellite Earth observation active wildland fire hotspot data via open access web platforms

ABSTRACT Globally, managing wildland fire is increasing in complexity. Satellite Earth Observation (EO) data, specifically active fire ‘hotspot’ data, is often used to inform wildland fire management. This study explores hotspot data usage via web traffic data (‘user counts’) for the FIRMS, GWIS and EFFIS web portals between September 2019 and April 2023. Global active fire data use is characterized by multi-month periods of relatively low, stable user counts, interspersed with periodic spikes (4.1x median monthly activity) of activity broadly aligned with the North American / European fire season (late summer-fall). Users from the Americas (45%) and Europe (36%) dominate web traffic. We also examined correlative relationships between web page user counts and environmental and social variables at multiple spatial scales. Globally, the strongest relationships were found between user counts and the total number of fires, total burned area, number of fire disaster events; country population levels and internet proliferation. Notably, at a country level, the strongest (and weakest) relationships between weekly user counts and fire activity were found in a diverse range of countries suggesting that a variety of hotspot data use situations exist and further investigation is needed to better understand EO active fire data usage.

Analysis of web design visual element attention based on user educational background

The evolution of Internet technology has led to an increase in online users. This study focuses on the pivotal role of visual elements in web content conveyance and their impact on user browsing behavior. Therefore, the use of visual elements in web design based on big data has aroused widespread concern among web designers, they apply visual elements to their web design works to make the web more attractive. This study examines the composition and distribution characteristics of key visual elements identified through user behavior data in a big data environment and discusses the use of visual elements in web design in the era of network economy. In addition, this paper issued 200 questionnaires to investigate the degree of attention to visual elements in web pages for users of different occupations and different educational backgrounds. Our survey indicated that visual elements captured the attention of 41% of corporate employees, whereas a mere 1% of social welfare workers focused on web content; 36% of undergraduates pay attention to visual elements of web pages, but only 5% and 4% of postgraduates and doctoral degrees and above. Therefore, the visual elements of the designed web page need to conform to the user's cultural background and professional background.

Web page user interface development for business shoe stores

The user interface for web pages is very important and indispensable for many companies that want to thrive. It offers the perspective of creating designs for any type of company with a single software that allows coding and coloring web pages. The objective of this work is to meet the needs of the company owner with a design created in Notepad++ that is simple and freely available for users who wish to purchase the product. It involves simple manipulation and non-bold colors, as well as standard fonts that are visible to the customer. A satisfactory result was obtained through a survey conducted with people from the Giker company. We also designed the web page with four buttons that display each mentioned piece of information. Finally, we manage to meet the company’s requested needs, achieving the appropriate design for user comfort.

Usability evaluation of the international FitBack web portal for monitoring youth fitness

BackgroundFitBack is an international network established to support the creation of physical fitness monitoring and surveillance systems for children and adolescents across Europe.AimsAs a part of the greater scope of the FitBack European project, the FitBack web portal was designed and tailored for various target groups, such as teachers, health professionals, policy makers, parents, and youths, with the aim to promote their physical and health literacy.MethodsThe FitBack web portal is a free and multilingual online resource, and two of its webpages were evaluated: “Make interactive report” was evaluated by 78 secondary school students and 27 physical education teachers, and “10 steps to design a physical fitness monitoring system” by 14 physical activity promotion policy makers. Validated scales and open-ended questions were used to collect both quantitative and qualitative responses.Results‘Good’-to-‘excellent’ scores emerged for user experience (5.43–6.36 out of 7) and webpage usability (3.70–4.27 out of 5). Qualitative feedback highlighted positive comments and cues on how to improve website features.ConclusionsResults indicate that the current FitBack web portal is a clear and user-friendly mobile health tool, which includes relevant information on how to use and implement youth physical fitness monitoring and surveillance systems.

Disseminating oral health educational content and evaluating its use on non-dental safety net clinic websites.

Safety net clinics (SNC) provide healthcare to vulnerable populations and SNC websites are an important information source. In North Carolina (NC), all 100 counties are Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas, yet 91 of 317 SNCs are non-dental (ND-SNC). Our goals were to: (1) assess the presence and type of oral health (OH) information on ND-SNC websites; (2) develop and distribute an OH education webpage to ND-SNCs and track its use. The website search function was used with common dental terms to evaluate the presence of OH content on each ND-SNC website. Key representatives from ND-SNCs were surveyed to assess patient care and willingness to implement an OH webpage. Webpage topics included oral hygiene and a map of NC dentists that provide services to low-income patients. Google Analytics was used to track consumer webpage engagement including acquisition source (AS), average time on page (AT), and unique page views (UPV). Of the 91 ND-SNCs websites, none contained OH education; 15% had information about nearby dental providers. For the 40 ND-SNCs using our webpage, January-December 2022, the primary AS for new webpage users was referrals; 72.5% of users visited directly from ND-SNC websites. Statewide AT was 2 min and 30 s (SD = 58 s), 2.88 times longer than the 52-s threshold marketing experts use to establish genuine user engagement. There were 1364 UPVs statewide for 2022. Our results suggest a need for OH education content on ND-SNC websites, as users are searching for and engaging with this information.

Evaluating the understandability and actionability of online educational videos on pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease.

It remains undetermined whether online education videos for Japanese patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are easy to understand and allow adoption of behavioural changes. This study quantitatively assessed the understandability and applicability of online education videos for patients with CKD. In September 2021, we identified 200 videos on YouTube using the Japanese translations of the keywords 'kidney,' 'kidney disease,' 'CKD,' and 'chronic kidney disease.' We used the Japanese version of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool to evaluate the understandability and usability of webpages on a scale of 0% to 100%. The cut-off was set at 70%. A total of 54 videos were evaluated. The overall understandability and actionability of the materials were 57.6 (SD = 22.6) and 53.7 (SD = 33.4), respectively. Approximately 70% and 60% of the materials were considered insufficiently understandable and actionable, respectively. Most videos lacked a summary and had difficulty in using only everyday language. Most videos included at least one action for the audience to take. However, many failed to break down the action into sequential steps. They also lack visual aids to encourage the audience to take action. Our results suggest that current information on pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease was not presented in a manner that can be applied by laypeople.

The Impact of a Web Banner Position on the Webpage User Experience

Visual perception of a web banner depends on different parameters. Webpage template configuration and web banner position are important parameters that can affect the banner visibility. This paper aims to determine the impact of a web banner position on the banner visibility and webpage user experience. Research was conducted by using an eye tracking technology. Four webpage templates were created for two groups of respondents. Webpage templates were based on a news portal wireframe and six different banners. Each respondent was exposed to the same set of four different web banners on left and right positions, but their placement on the webpage was changed for each group of respondents, while template complexity remained the same. Two other banners placed on the top position remained the same for both groups, since the emphasis is on evaluation of left and right web banner positions. Research results indicate that the web banner on the left position is noticed before the web banner on the right position. Although the web banner on the left position is noticed before, the web banner on the right position is on average viewed for a longer time. The analysis of a different web banner positions provides guidelines for web designers to improve web banner visibility and overall webpage user experience.

A Comparative Eye Tracking Study of Usability—Towards Sustainable Web Design

Websites are one of the most frequently used communication environments, and creating sustainable web designs should be an objective for all companies. Ensuring high usability is proving to be one of the main contributors to sustainable web design, reducing usage time, eliminating frustration and increasing satisfaction and retention. The present paper studies the usability of different website landing pages, seeking to identify the elements, structures and designs that increase usability. The study analyzed the behavior of 22 participants during their interaction with five different landing pages while they performed three tasks on the webpage and freely viewed each page for one minute. The stimuli were represented by five different banking websites, each of them presenting the task content in a different mode (text, image, symbol, graph, etc.).; the data obtained from the eye tracker (fixations location, order and duration, saccades, revisits of the same element, etc.), together with the data from the applied survey lead to interesting conclusions: the top, center and right sides of the webpage attract the most attention; the use of pictures depicting persons increase visibility; the scanpaths follow a vertical and horizontal direction; numerical data should be presented through graphs or tables. Even if a user's past experience influences their experience on a website, we show that the design of the webpage itself has a greater influence on webpage usability.

Data, Their Relevance to Competition and Search Engines

A special feature of digital markets and digital business models is the high importance of (user) data. The control and the ability to analyze large amounts of data (big data) can create competitive advantage. Thus, the importance of data for the economic success of companies should be given more consideration in competition law proceedings. In search services competition, the quality factor plays a decisive role, since the expected quality of the search results determines which search engine will be used by users. Since search engines can influence the retrievability of web pages for users, preference of own search services in the web index may constitute an abusive behavior of a dominant search engine. The purpose of this paper is to provide answers on questions, among other, whether a regulation aimed at preventing abuses is necessary or whether an obligation to publish the search algorithm may be advocated.

OPTIMALISASI PERFORMA AKSES HALAMAN WEB DENGAN MEMANFAATKAN TEKNIK LOAD BALANCING PADA GOOGLE CLOUD

Web pages are one of the access doors for internet users to be able to access resources on the internet. The increasing number of web page users today, demands that web services also be faster and more responsive in handling user requests. The increasing number of requests by the number of users causes the web to be overloaded so that it is necessary to share the load on the so that the workload of the machine becomes lighter. One solution offered is to perform load balancing on the Google Cloud platform. By configuring this platform allows the machine to perform load sharing automatically when it reaches a certain threshold. Based on experiments conducted, automatic load sharing on the Google Cloud platform can be done by configuring Load Balancing. Based on the testing process conducted 15 times shows that the platform can perform load sharing automatically in accordance with the specified limit

Responsive and Personalized Web Layouts with Integer Programming

Over the past decade, responsive web design (RWD) has become the de facto standard for adapting web pages to a wide range of devices used for browsing. While RWD has improved the usability of web pages, it is not without drawbacks and limitations: designers and developers must manually design the web layouts for multiple screen sizes and implement associated adaptation rules, and its "one responsive design fits all" approach lacks support for personalization. This paper presents a novel approach for automated generation of responsive and personalized web layouts. Given an existing web page design and preferences related to design objectives, our integer programming -based optimizer generates a consistent set of web designs. Where relevant data is available, these can be further automatically personalized for the user and browsing device. The paper includes presentation of techniques for runtime adaptation of the designs generated into a fully responsive grid layout for web browsing. Results from our ratings-based online studies with end users (N = 86) and designers (N = 64) show that the proposed approach can automatically create high-quality responsive web layouts for a variety of real-world websites.

Data mining and machine learning in retail business: developing efficiencies for better customer retention

The problem of customer acquisition and retention has been well studied. Number of soft techniques has been discussed earlier towards the development of retail marketing. However, the methods suffer to achieve higher performance and require some strategically approach. The application of data mining techniques has great impact in the development of retail marketing. Also, the volume of customer logs is higher which challenges the methods in identifying user interest in exact way and such issue can be handled with the inclusion of machine learning techniques. Towards this, a novel customer interest prediction algorithm with Multi Variant K-means clustering and pattern mining techniques is presented in this article. The method is focused to support E-Commerce systems. The method first identifies the purchase histories and enquires of various users. The logs have been clustered using Multi variant k-means clustering algorithm. Second, the method identifies the list of purchase patterns. From the patterns being generated, the method identifies the concrete interest of the user and identifies the similar interested users. Using this, set of recommendations has been generated for the user which has been used to populate advertisements, placing banners in user web page, and so on. By identifying the user interest according to their purchase pattern and by generating the recommendations based on the logs of similar interested users, the method supports the customer retention in higher ratio.

Analysis of usability evaluation according to the quality standards

This research provides a study of usability as a quality attribute of Web pages, using as a benchmark the requirements that must be followed under the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission 25000. The methods used to carry out this process are studied, as well as the description of the aspects to be considered for evaluation thereof. It carried out a review of the literature on software tools for measuring the usability of Web pages and disadvantages. The methodology that can be used is determined to perform the corresponding evaluation process and the results are established using a practical case.

Motivation research on the participation of multimedia Web page users in “share” behavior: a case study of Alipay

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology, a series of activities such as “share billing bills”, “share songs list”, and “share footprints” in the past two years have won a great success and wide participation of users. It is of a great practical significance for enterprises to use multimedia to carry out “share” behavior to win users and gain competitive advantage. Therefore, this paper introduces the design of such multimedia pages and the multimedia technology used, and evaluates the interactivity of multimedia page design from the perspective of user experience. More specifically, we construct a motivation model for users to participate in “share” behavior, and use empirical research methods to analyze the impact of motivation (information motivation, social motivation, entertainment motivation) on users’ participation in “share” behavior. The results demonstrate that information motivation, social motivation, and entertainment motivation have a significant impact on users’ participation in “share” behavior. These influences, in the descending order of their importance, are entertainment motivation, information motivation, and social motivation. Privacy concerns do not play a mediating role in the relationship between motivation and user involvement in “share” behavior. Taken together, the results of the present study not only reveal and explain the motivation mechanism of consumers participating in “share” behavior in multimedia pages, but also help evaluate the perceived quality of emerging multimedia services from the perspective of consumer participation, as well as provide some inspiration for interactive design and improvement of multimedia pages.

Geoportales orientados a los usuarios. Caso de estudio: el Geoportal de la Universidad del Azuay

La información geográfica además de ser necesaria para diferentes clases de usua- rios, es tratada desde diferentes ámbitos de trabajo como: la academia, las ciencias de información geográfica, el gobierno y la economía, por ello es necesario tenerla a disponibilidad de forma ágil y oportuna. La publicación de la información carto- gráfica digital del Ecuador en las instituciones públicas, en particular, es cada vez más frecuente, gracias a las políticas nacionales de geoinformación (publicadas oficialmente en el año 2010) que amparan la creación de las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (IDE). La Universidad del Azuay (UDA) en el año 2012 creó su Geoportal como resultado del uso y construcción de visualizadores de mapas de información geográfica local. Por los trabajos de investigación y los convenios con instituciones públicas se logró dar acceso a datos ambientales, a través del portal web, que anteriormente solo eran presentados en publicaciones escritas de la ciudad de Cuenca. La publicación pretende que los datos sean comprensibles por usuarios que no tengan perfil técnico de formación en esta rama. Esta aproximación ha per- mitido que el Geoportal de la Universidad del Azuay tenga un proceso de constante de actualización involucrando al usuario en las etapas diseño, prototipo y pruebas con la finalidad de presentar esos datos al usuario interesado en conocer y monito- rear el estado ambiental de la ciudad. Para evaluar estas mejoras se diseñó e imple- mentó una prueba controlada a un grupo focal para conocer su percepción de la página web de usuario comparándola con la anterior (técnica) y así evaluar su efec- tividad para comunicar esta información.

Internet-mediated automation of a cascade control system-an Engineering laboratory experiment

The paper aims to enhance the controllability of a standalone cascade control system with Internet architecture and promote the system to be accessible by remote students. The user interactive web page is developed by using platform independent ASP.NET language and enabled with both monitoring and controlling functionalities. The Internet transmission time delays that are associated with both feed-forward and feedback channels are compensated by using model predictive controller. The performance of cascade control system with and without compensation is validated by measuring indices, such as rise time, peak time and settling time, and also integral square error and integral absolute error. Access privileges among web page users have been added to ensure simultaneous operations as well as security. The cascade control system is an engineering laboratory experiment interfaced with a dedicated computer by using MODBUS protocol and it is made available to the remote students. The user perception analysis is carried out by using a set of questionnaire that observes 85% of positive feedback.

Towards more effective online environmental information provision through tailored Natural Language Generation: Profiles of Scottish river user groups and an evaluative online experiment

As a result of societal transformations, political governance shifts, and advances in ICT, online information has become crucial in efforts by public authorities to make citizens better stewards of the environment. Yet, their environmental information provision may not always be attuned to end users' rationales, behaviours and appreciations. This study revolves around dynamic river level information provided by an environmental regulator – updated once a day or more, and collected by a sensor network of 333 gauging stations along 232 Scottish rivers. Employing an elaborate mixed methods approach with qualitative and quantitative elements, we examined if profiling of web page user groups and the subsequent employment of a specially designed Natural Language Generation (NLG) system could foster more effective online information provision. We identified profiles for the three main user groups: fishing, flood risk related, and paddling. The existence of well-distinguishable rationales and characteristics was in itself an argument for profiling; the same river level information was used in entirely different ways by the three groups. We subsequently constructed an advanced online experiment that implemented NLG based on live river level data. We found that textual information can be of much value in translating dynamic technical information into straightforward messages for the specific purposes of the user groups. We conclude that tailored NLG could be widely used in more effective online environmental information provision, and we provide five practical recommendations for public authorities and other information providers.

Sistem Kendali Dan Pengawasan Wilayah Pintu Berbasis IoT

Abstract - In this study, an IoT-based door security system was proposed which facilitated homeowners to open and close doors and unlock doors through the internet. The system is also equipped with a real time video streaming feature so that the owner can save the environment around the door and ensure the person at the door before opening it. The Raspberry Pi is used as the main controller of the system that provides web pages for users and signatories to access Arduino Uno boards. Arduino Uno controls the servo to control the door. The camera used in this study is a Raspberry Camera with 5 MP resolution. From the results of the tests carried out, the results of the system that have been made can work well. Expected full service and response to changes in users on web pages is also quite fast. Streaming video runs smoothly at 30 fps with a resolution of 640x480.Keywords - Raspberry Pi, Streaming Video, Internet of Things, Door Control

Applying Eye Tracking in Information Security

In this paper, we are considering the possibility of using eye tracking technology in the context of information security. We expect that this novel technique will have a very effective impact in this field. Eye tracking technology is widely used to investigate user behavior when working with a computer. This technology allows to obtain analysis in the form fixation point (location of a user’s eye gaze), scan-path (gaze trajectory), heat maps (areas of interest), salient picture components. Eye tracking research has been widely used to improve the design and usability of web pages, as well as to explore an understanding how users are guided by them. Moreover, this technology is widely used in the protection of information.

An Efficient User Preference and Page Relevance based Page Ranking Algorithm

Background/Objectives: Provide better search results and improve overall search experience of the users while searching information over the Internet. Most of the commonly used search engines today utilize link structure based page ranking for ordering of web pages and give no consideration to web page’s relevance and user-feedback etc. and suffer from topicdrift problem. As a result users seldom find accurate, precise and desired information on first page of the result-set. The users have to scan through the large result-set refining it manually which adversely affects the overall search experience of the user. Therefore there is a need to provide better ranking solutions. Methods/ Statistical Analysis: The methodology used for ranking a web page in the proposed algorithm includes ranking based on web page characteristics, user explicit feedback and preferences. The algorithm computes page rank of a web page based on number of times of occurrence of user specified Keyword on the web page, web page’s priority, its rating and popularity as specified by user feedback The algorithms also attempts to match user preferences in terms of domain and type of information of the web page user are interested in for page ranking. Findings: The proposed algorithm promises to provide best web pages in conjunction with user needs and interest, thereby improving the overall quality of the search results and user satisfaction. Application: The proposed algorithm can be used in Search Engines to provide better user specific results. Keywords: Information Retrieval, Page Ranking, Search Engine, User-feedback, User-Preferences, User-satisfaction