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Revisiting revisitation in computer interaction: organic bookmark management
No full textAccording to Milic-Frayling et al. (2004), there are two general ways of user browsing i.e. search (finding a website where the user has never visited before) and revisitation (returning to a website where the user has visited in the past). The issue of search is relevant to search engine technology, whilst revisitation concerns web usage and browser history mechanisms. The support for revisitation is normally through a set of functional built-in icons e.g. History, Back, Forward and Bookmarks. Nevertheless, for returning web users, they normally find it is easier and faster to re-launch an online search again, rather than spending time to find a particular web site from their personal bookmark and history records. Tauscher and Greenberg (1997) showed that revisiting web pages forms up to 58% of the recurrence rate of web browsing. Cockburn and McKenzie (2001) also stated that 81% of web pages have been previously visited by the user. According to Obendorf et al. (2007), revisitation can be divided into four classifications based on time: short-term (72.6% revisits within an hour), medium-term (12% revisits within a day and 7.8% revisits within a week), and long-term (7.6% revisits longer than a week
Chinese users’ preference for web browser icons
No full textThis paper compares the perspicacity, appropriateness and preference of web browser icons from leading software providers with those of a culture-specific design. The history and future direction of web browsers is outlined, together with the implications for the future growth of Chinese internet users. China, with its rapidly expanding young netizens has now overtaken the USA in terms of the number of internet users (253 million) and we predict it will reach saturation (?70% internet penetration rate) by 2012. If correct, this will have a dramatic effect on the use of English as the ‘Lingua Franca’ of the Internet. This online study was conducted in Taiwan and involved 103 participants (mean age 21 years), who were given three sets of web browser icons to review, namely Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Macintosh Safari 3.0, and culturally specific icons created using the Culture-Centred Design methodology. The findings of the study show that all three sets have generally high recognition rates, but that some icon functions (e.g. Go/Visit and Favourite) in all three sets have poor recognition rates and are considered inappropriate. Furthermore, some significant differences were found when we analysed the level of user experience amongst several icon
Implied Author, Overall Consideration, and Subtext of "Desiree's Baby"
No full textThis essay explores how to infer from a text the image of the implied author. It examines Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" (1893), which has been widely regarded as an indictment of racism but which an "overall consideration" of the implied author's choices will lead us to see as a racist text. Through the interaction of various details in the text, the implied author suggests three racist dichotomies: (1) white characters' nondiscrimination versus black characters' discrimination, (2) positive slavery under white masters versus negative slavery under a black master, and (3) superior whites versus inferior blacks. This implied racist stance reflects the historical context of Chopin's personal experiences, but it contrasts with the quite different racial stances of the implied authors of some other Chopin narratives with different thematic designs. The complexity of the narratives under the name "Kate Chopin" offers an opportunity not only to gain a better understanding of the concept of implied author but also to clarify the relations (connections as well as disparities) among textual, intertextual, and extratextual evidence in literary interpretation in general.LiteratureA&HCI4ARTICLE2285-3113
Triomicrus mirus Shen and Yin
No full textTriomicrus mirus Shen and Yin (Fig. 6) Triomicrus mirus Shen and Yin, 2015: 522. Additional material examined. 8 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, labeled ‘ China: Hunan, Liuyang City, Daweishan Town (大围山镇), Dawei shan (大围山), 28 ° 25 ’ 37 ’’N, 114 °07’03’’E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 1440 m, 21.vii. 2013, Peng, Dai & Xie leg.’ (SNUC). Comments. Males of this species can be easily separated from those of all other congeners by a combination of the following characters: antennomeres XI enlarged, with impression near middle (Fig. 6 B, 6 C); abdominal sternite VII with apical lamina (Fig. 6 D) composed of two sclerites, left one curved mesally, widest near base, obliquely narrowing toward bifurcate apex, with a tiny horn-like projection at the middle, right one elongate, curved mesally at apex. This species was originally described from the Yaoluoping Natural Reserve, here we record it also from the Dawei Mountain. Illustrations of sternite VII (Fig. 6 D) and the aedeagus (Fig. 6 E) are provided here. Distribution. Eastern China: Anhui; central China: Hunan (new provincial record).Published as part of Shen, Jia-Wei & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2016, The genus Triomicrus Sharp from central and southwestern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), and a revised key to the Chinese species, pp. 369-380 in Zootaxa 4097 (3) on pages 375-376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/25630
Bhatia flabellata Shang & Shen 2006
No full textBhatiahamus flabellata (Shang & Shen, 2006) Bhatia flabellata Shang & Shen (in Shang, Shen, Zhang & Li), 2006 a: 571, Figs 32–38. Bhatiahamus flabellata, Lu & Zhang, 2014 a: 372, Fig. 1. Distribution: China (Henan, Sichuan, Guangxi).Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Bhatia sagittata Cai & Shen 1999
No full textBhatia sagittata Cai & Shen, 1999 Bhatia sagittata Cai & Shen, 1999: 38, Fig. 3. Distribution: China (Henan)Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 261, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Favintiga gracilipenis Shang, Zhang, Shen
No full textFavintiga gracilipenis Shang, Zhang, Shen & li, 2006 Favintiga gracilipenis Shang, Zhang, Shen & li, 2006: 35, Figs 8–15. Distribution: China (Guangxi, Yunnan).Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Parabolopona yangi Zhang, Chen & Shen 1995
No full textParabolopona yangi Zhang, Chen & Shen, 1995 Parabolopona yangi Zhang, Chen & Shen, 1995: 11, Fig. 4. Distribution: China (Guangdong).Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Parabolopona quadrispinosa Shang, Zhang, Shen & Li 2006
No full textParabolopona quadrispinosa Shang, Zhang, Shen & Li, 2006 Parabolopona quadrispinosa Shang, Zhang, Shen & Li, 2006: 37, Figs 16–21. Distribution: China (Guangxi, Yunnan).Published as part of Qu, Ling, Webb, M. D. & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, A new genus and species of the leafhopper subtribe Paraboloponina from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), pp. 260-270 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/24119
Qionemobius Shen & He 2020, gen. nov.
No full textGenus Qionemobius Shen & He gen. nov. (Fig. 2 C,D; Fig. 3) Type species: Qionemobius hsterus Including species: type species only Diagnosis. The new genus is similar to Pteronemobius, Dianemobius, Polionemobius, Speonemobius in appearance, but does not have forewings. It also differs from Marinemobius, Parapteronemobius, and Taiwanemobius by having short legs. In terms of habitat, the new species occupies leaf litter habitats, while the latter three genera live near sea. Genitalia: apical part of epiphallus with two rounded projections, ectoparamers with rather small apical part, not exceeding epiphallus (Fig. 3).Published as part of Shen, Chu-Ze, Guo, Pei-Kun & He, Zhu-Qing, 2020, A pilot phylogeny study of Nemobiinae inferred from 18 S, 28 S and genes, with descriptions of two new genera and a new species from Hainan, China (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae), pp. 383-390 in Zootaxa 4778 (2) on page 387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/382641
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