Table 9 Confirmation or contradiction of original hypotheses
From: A user-centred evaluation framework for the Sealife semantic web browsers
Hypothesis | COHSE | CORESE | GoPubMed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
H1 | The SWB reduces the time taken for users to find information or perform tasks. | No | Yes | No |
H2 | The SWB shortens the pathway taken to find information or perform tasks. | No (targets not found) | No (targets found by few users) | PubMed data not available for comparison |
H3 | Where semantic links are available, users will always follow them instead of nonsemantic links. | No | Yes | No |
H4 | Users find the SWB easier to use than the control platform. | Yes and No | No | Yes |
H5 | Where semantic links and ranking are available, users prefer them to non-semantic links and ranking. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
H6 | Use of the SWB is intuitive: a) Users think the SWB helps them to find information or complete tasks. | No | No | Yes |
b) Users intuitively understand how to use the SWB to find such information or complete tasks. | No | No | Yes |