?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Bibliographic+Displays+in+Web+Catalogs%3A+Does+Conformity+to+Design+Guidelines+Correlate+with+User+Performance%3F&rft.creator=Cherry%2C+Joan+M.&rft.creator=Muter%2C+Paul&rft.creator=Szigeti%2C+Steve+J.&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Human+Computer+Interaction&rft.description=The+present+study+investigated+whether+there+is+a+correlation+between+user+performance+and+compliance+with+screen-design+guidelines+found+in+the+literature.+Rather+than+test+individual+guidelines+and+their+interactions%2C+the+authors+took+a+more+holistic+approach+and+tested+a+compilation+of+guidelines.+Nine+bibliographic+display+formats+were+scored+using+a+checklist+of+eighty-six+guidelines.+Twenty-seven+participants+completed+ninety+search+tasks+using+the+displays+in+a+simulated+Web+environment.+None+of+the+correlations+indicated+that+user+performance+was+statistically+significantly+faster+with+greater+conformity+to+guidelines.+In+some+cases%2C+user+performance+was+actually+significantly+slower+with+greater+conformity+to+guidelines.+In+a+supplementary+study%2C+a+different+set+of+forty-three+guidelines+and+the+user+performance+data+from+the+main+study+were+used.+Again%2C+none+of+the+correlations+indicated+that+user+performance+was+statistically+significantly+faster+with+greater+conformity+to+guidelines.&rft.date=2006-09&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5244%2F1%2FCherry.pdf&rft.identifier=++Cherry%2C+Joan+M.+and+Muter%2C+Paul+and+Szigeti%2C+Steve+J.++(2006)+Bibliographic+Displays+in+Web+Catalogs%3A+Does+Conformity+to+Design+Guidelines+Correlate+with+User+Performance%3F++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5244%2F