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Website changes impact user navigation. Learning new content slows users, while learning new content and procedures significantly hinders information retrieval efficiency.

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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Information Science

Background:

  • Website design and functionality significantly influence user experience and task success.
  • Understanding how users adapt to system changes is crucial for effective interface design.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of content and procedural changes in a website-like system on users' ability to recover from information retrieval failures.
  • To determine how prior experience with system modifications affects subsequent performance.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were assigned to one of four learning conditions with varying content and procedures for a website-like system.
  • Task performance was evaluated through two online tests (System B and System C) assessing information retrieval efficiency and error rates.
  • Independent variables included learning conditions (content vs. content and procedures) and prior system change experience.

Main Results:

  • Learning new content alone led to decreased efficiency in information retrieval.
  • Learning both new content and procedures resulted in significant performance decrements.
  • Prior exposure to content changes facilitated faster adaptation to subsequent modifications.
  • Users with initially inconsistent procedures made fewer errors in later stages compared to those with consistent procedures.

Conclusions:

  • System changes involving both content and procedures pose a greater challenge to user efficiency than content changes alone.
  • Adaptation to website-like systems is influenced by the nature of the changes and users' prior experiences.
  • Interface design should consider the cognitive load associated with learning new content and procedures to optimize user recovery from navigation difficulties.