Pop-Up Windows and Information Retrieval

Paralinguistics organizers such as parenthesis, footnotes, and pop-up fields on screen, should play an important role signalling the writer’s “minimization” intention when secondary points are concerned. This experiment investigated the role of pop-up fields compared to brackets in an information retrieval task. The results showed that, in this kind of task, putting secondary pieces of information into pop-up fields significantly speeded the search process compared to a condition in which the same information was displayed in brackets. KEYWORDS Information Retrieval, Pop-up windows, Electronic Document Ergonomics

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Stéphane Caro
• Keywords: Information Retrieval Task, INTERACT 1997, INTERACT 2007, Keywords Information Retrieval, Pop-up Fields