"Credibility and Aesthetics/Design"

David Robins, Ph.D.
Information Architecture and Knowledge Management
Kent State University

Web sites are often the first impression an organization gives to people. For many of these organizations, a web site may be crucial to ensure a sale or to ensure that people avail themselves of the services offered within.

When a person opens a web site in their browser, that impression is probably made in a very few seconds, and the user will either stay or move on to the next site on the basis of many factors.

One of the factors that may influence users to stay or go may be the page aesthetics. Another reason to stay or go may be a snap judgment a user makes about the site’s credibility with regard to how the user intends to make use of the organization.

David Robins and Jason Holmes are working on a study that seeks to determine if there is a link between page aesthetics and a user’s judgment of the site’s credibility as a resource, and preliminary results will be shown.

"Sonification: Sound, Retrieval, and Usability"

Jason Holmes, Ph.D.
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University

Sonification is the use of data to control a sound generator for the purpose of monitoring, analysis, and/or representation in a human-computer interface.

This discussion will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of using sound as a means to represent data, as well as highlighting some working examples of sonification.

Discussion will also include ways in which multidimensional data can be mapped simultaneously to computer-generated sound parameters. The addition of sound to existing visualization systems offers new and exciting pathways to presenting and interpreting large, multidimensional data sets.

Meeting Time: 6:30 pm – 8pm.

(NEOUPA business from 6:30-7pm with the presentation from 7-8pm)

Meeting cost

• $15 for non-members
• $10 for NEOUPA members
• $5 for students

Food and beverages will be provided beginning at 6:15pm.

Fill out the Meeting Registration section in the upper right of this page, make your check payable to NEOUPA, and send it to:

Suzanne Galvez
eMergent Marketing
25101 Chagrin Blvd.
Suite 110
Cleveland, OH 44122

Questions about the status of your current membership? Please call Suzanne at 216-245-0490.