Pop-Up Windows and Information Retrieval

Stéphane Caro Dambreville (1)

1 CIMEOS - Communications, Médiations, Organisations, Savoirs

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.

Mots clés: Information Retrieval; Pop-up windows; Electronic Documents Ergonomics; Digital documents

Mots clés: Recherche d'information; Escamots; Documents électroniques; Documents numériques; Ergonomie

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Informatique

Stéphane Caro Dambreville. Pop-Up Windows and Information Retrieval. Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT'97, Jul 1997, Sydney, Australia. pp.573-574. ⟨hal-00453027⟩