Exploring the Relationship Between Web Presence and Web Usability in Peruvian Universities

Luis Torres Melgarejo, Claudia Zapata Del Río, Eder Quispe Vilchez

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Abstract

Currently the use of the internet is an essential requirement for any business that aspires to reach many customers, sharing the information of their products, their achievements, their day to day, etc. This leads to the generation of a quantity of information year after year by these companies, which allows them to gain presence in the network. This reality also applies to the education sector, so this work will focus on Peruvian universities. Universities generate a large amount of content, and therefore it is necessary to be easy to find and read. In this way they will not be at a disadvantage compared to other universities that compete to attract more applicants. Our motivation is based on a study conducted in Turkey whose results show that the universities with the greatest web presence in that country have better usability. With this motivation, it was decided to do this work that, repeating the Turkish experience, verifies if there is a relationship in the Peruvian universities with greater presence, according to a ranking of universities called Webometrics. This evaluation takes as reference other usability studies, among them those that use tests with users and questionnaires, to obtain a ranking of web usability and to be able to contrast it with the web presence ranking.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign, User Experience, and Usability. Practice and Case Studies - 8th International Conference, DUXU 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
EditorsAaron Marcus, Wentao Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages596-615
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783030235345
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event8th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2019 - Orlando, United States
Duration: 26 Jul 201931 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11586 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period26/07/1931/07/19

Keywords

  • University
  • Usability
  • Web presence

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