Preference Towards Different Media Types

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• For this question, users were asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 9 how much they liked pages which contained these different media types.

• The most liked type of pages is those which are searchable (7.6), followed closely by pages which are meta-indices (7.5) even though users are reporting less use of meta-indices. (See: Browsing Strategies.)

• Users reported a slight preference for images (5.0) over other media types (3.9 for movies, 4.2 for sounds, 4.5 for text).

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• There were no significant differences between gender for this question.

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• Older users showed a slight preference for text and meta-indices, while younger users showed an equally slight preference for images.

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Table of Data for All Categories

media.types	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
images	4.97	5.03	4.86	5.08	4.57	5.12	4.92	4.85
meta-indexes	7.50	7.35	7.82	7.53	7.17	7.35	7.53	7.75
movies	3.93	3.88	4.02	4.02	3.40	4.04	3.86	3.94
searchable	7.55	7.58	7.54	7.60	7.35	7.59	7.63	7.41
sounds	4.22	4.22	4.15	4.30	3.63	4.29	4.16	4.23
text	4.49	4.42	4.62	4.44	4.52	4.24	4.52	4.90

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Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
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