April 2011
Beginner
256 pages
5h 40m
English
There isn’t much actual research on trust and Web site design. There are many opinions, but not necessarily much real data. Research by Elizabeth Sillence (2004) and her team provides some solid data, at least in regard to health Web sites.
Sillence researched how people decide which health Web sites to trust and whether to trust them. Participants in the study were all patients with hypertension. (In previous research, Sillence used the topic of menopause and found similar results.) In this study participants used Web sites to look for information about hypertension.
When participants in the study rejected a health Web site as not being trustworthy, 83 percent of their comments were ...
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