Building a Web-Features Taxonomy for Structuring Web Design Guidelines

Abstract

This paper proposes a framework for structuring web design guidelines that incorporates the hierarchies of web features and their semantic relationships with HTML and CSS. It is argued that this approach will be synchronous with the mental model of web designers, thus making the guidelines more usable. In addition, this approach embraces both external and internal aspects of web design, so there is little compromise on the coverage of web design issues. An experiment was conducted to compare the relative effectiveness of the proposed framework with other guideline structures (e.g., principle-oriented and a mixture of principle and feature-oriented). There was evidence that the principle-oriented guidelines performed worse than the other structures, but the analyses failed to establish that the proposed framework as the most effective. The experiment showed promising results but it suffered from small sample size. In spite of this, it is believed that the proposed taxonomy and framework has laid the groundwork for fiture research.

A Taxonomy for Secondary In-Vehicle Tasks Based on Eye Glance and Task completion Time

“…Taxonomies have been developed to help researchers and practitioners better understand various issues such as pedestrian injuries (Schofer et al, 1995), safety-related work behavior (DeJoy, 1993), warnings (Ayres, Gross, Horst, & Robinson, 1992), mental models (Moray, 1996), pilot training tasks (Meyer, Laveson, Weissman, & Eddowes, 1975), and web design (Cheong & Shehab, 2003) to name a few. However, the development of detailed taxonomies for driverrelated issues is not as abundant.…”