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Accessibility and Usability of User-centric Web Interaction with a Unified-Ubiquitous Name-based Directory Service

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Web-based information services should be evaluated for accessibility and usability with various types of Internet Web-browsing devices, interacting with web information servers including directory server. A ubiquitous name-based directory server, accessible and usable with a variety of Web-browsing devices (e.g. Internet-capable mobile phones), could be a unified center for human-centric Web interaction services as well as for business models based on personalized services. We studied the accessibility and usability in user-centric Web interaction with a unified-ubiquitous name-based directory service, as metric metadata for real-time estimation. We studied the real-time metrics in synthetic approach for comparison among different services. We show empirical results based on implementation and experiments in Korea, Japan and China.

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Kim, Y.B. Accessibility and Usability of User-centric Web Interaction with a Unified-Ubiquitous Name-based Directory Service. World Wide Web 13, 105–120 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-009-0075-3

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