2016, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp 115 – 119

Credibility judgments in web page design – a brief review

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Correspondence to: Prof. Dafin F. Muresanu, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, 8 Victor Babeș Street, Code 400012, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Mobile phone: +40 724353060; Fax: +40 264406845, +40 264597256, Ext. 2116, E-mail: dafinm@ssnn.ro

Abstract

Today, more than ever, knowledge that interfaces appearance analysis is a crucial point in human-computer interaction field has been accepted. As nowadays virtually anyone can publish information on the web, the credibility role has grown increasingly important in relation to the web-based content. Areas like trust, credibility, and behavior, doubled by overall impression and user expectation are today in the spotlight of research compared to the last period, when other pragmatic areas such as usability and utility were considered. Credibility has been discussed as a theoretical construct in the field of communication in the past decades and revealed that people tend to evaluate the credibility of communication primarily by the communicator’s expertise. Other factors involved in the content communication process are trustworthiness and dynamism as well as various other criteria but to a lower extent. In this brief review, factors like web page aesthetics, browsing experiences and user experience are considered.

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PubMed ID: 27453738
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Article Publishing Date (print): Apr-Jun 2016
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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

Copyright License: Open Access

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