Cure4Kids: Research challenges in the design of a website for global education and collaboration

Information Design Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-249

  Quintana, Yuri ^a   O'Brien, Richard ^b   Patel, Aman ^b   Becksfort, Jared ^b   Shuler, Ana ^b   Nambayan, Ayda ^b   May, Dorothy ^b   Chantada, Guillermo ^b   Howard, Scott ^b   Ribeiro, Raul C ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Information aritecture; Internationalization; Iterative design; Localization; Usability; Website design; Website navigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049120049     PISSN: 01425471     EISSN: 1569979X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/idj.16.3.10qui     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bhavnani, S.K. (2005). Why is it difficult to find comprehensive information? Implications of information scatter for search and design. Journal of the American Society of Science and Technology, 56, 989-1003.
2. Brigham F. (2001). Graphical symbols for consumer products in an international context. Information Design Journal, 10, 115-123.
3. Chung, W., Zhang, Y., Huang, Z., Wan, G., Ong, T.H., & Chen, H. (2004). Internet searching in a multilingual world: An experiment on the Chinese Business Intelligence Portal (CBizPort). Journal of the American Society of Science and Technology, 55, 818-831.
4. Caniza MA, Maron G, Moore E.J, Quintana Y, Liu T. (2007) Effective hand hygiene education with the use of flipcharts in a hospital in El Salvador. Journal of Hospital Infection. 65, 58-64.
5. Carnevale, D. (2000). Study assesses what participants look for in high-quality online courses. Chronicle of Higher Education, 47(9): A46.
6. Chantada G.L, Doz F, Orjuela M, Qaddoumi I, Sitorus R.S, Kepak T, Furmanchuk A, Castellanos M, Sharma T, Chevez-Barrios P. Rodriguez-Galindo C (2008). World disparities in risk definition and management of retinoblastoma: a report from the International Retinoblastoma Staging Working Group. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 50, 692-4.
7. Djonov, E (2007). Website hierarchy and the interaction between content organization, webpage and navigation design: A systemic functional hypermedia discourse analysis perspective, Information Design Journal, 15, 144-162.
8. Dreyfuss, H. (1984). Symbol sourcebook: An authoritative guide to international graphic symbols. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
9. Dutton, J., Dutton, M., & Perry, J. (2002). How do online students differ from lecture students? Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 6, 1-20.
10. Follett, J. (2007). Interfaces that flow: Transitions as design elements. Published Online on Apri1 26, 2007. Accessed at http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000187.php
11. Hackos, JoAnn T. and Janice C. (Ginny) Redish. (1998). User and Task Analysis for Interface Design. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
12. Horton, W. (1994). The icon book: Visual symbols for computer systems and documentation New York: John Wiley & Sons.
13. Hoekman, R. (2006). Designing the obvious: A common sense approach to web application design. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Press.
14. Howard S.C, Metzger M.L, Wilimas J.A, Quintana Y, Pui C.H, Robison L.L, Ribeiro R.C. (2008). Childhood cancer epidemiology in low-income countries. Cancer. 112, 461-72.
15. Krug, Steve (2005). Don't make me think: A common sense approach to web usability. Berkeley, CA: New Riders Press.
16. Kurniawan, S. & Zaphiris, P. (eds) (2006). Advances in universal web design and evaluation: Research, trends and opportunities. London, England: Idea Group
17. Kushniruk, A, & Borycki, E. (2006). Low-cost rapid usability engineering: Designing and customizing usable healthcare information systems. Electronic Healthcare, 5, 98-102.
18. Lindgaard, G. & Chattratichart, J. (2007). Usability testing: what have we overlooked? Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp, 1415-1424.
19. Pizzo, P. A. & Poplack, D.G. (2006). Principles and practice of pediatric oncology. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
20. Quintana Y (1998). Intelligent medical information filtering. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 51, 197-204.
21. Nielsen, J. (1993) Usability engineering. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
22. Norman, D.A. (2007). The design of future things. New York: NY: Basic Books.
23. Williams, P., Nicholas, D., Huntington, P. & McLean, F. (2002). Surfing for health: user evaluation of a health information website. Part two: fieldwork. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 19, 214-225.
24. Wutoh, R., Boren, S.A., & Balas, E.A. (2004) eLearning: A review of Internet-based continuing medical education. Journal of Continuing Education Health Professionals, 24, 20-30.
25. W3C (2008). The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) interoperable specifications and guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org on May 1, 2008.
26. WSP (2008). The Web Standards Project Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.webstandards.org on May 1, 2008.