Chapter . Task Success, Difficulty and User Ratings

In this study, we observed users conducting tasks across a broad spectrum of sites including sites with and without customization. The most interesting findings illustrate a difference not just between non-customization and customization sites, but also a difference between Interface Customization and Product Customization.

Lower Task Success On Product Customization Websites

For each task, we tracked whether or not a user successfully completed a task and to what degree, using this scoring scale:

0%

(Failure)

25%

(Partial)

50%

(Partial)

75%

(Partial)

100%

(Success)

The average success scores for Interface Customization (i.e., iGoogle, My Yahoo! And Pageflakes) is equal to that of non-customizable sites. ...

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