"Building Quality Into Interactive Multimedia - Access Australia CMC Forum"
Sydney, August 1996
ONLINE USEABILITY - IS IT DIFFERENT?
T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@ciolek.com), Coombs Computing Unit, ANU

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Types of Electronic Behaviour

COMMUNICATION/SOCIALIZING
[ *Not* available in off-line situations]

e-mail
mailing lists & listserves
muds
internet telephone
irc
internet talk
USENET newsgroups
exchange of electronic 'postcards', poetry and 'flowers'

ENTERTAINMENT

games (complete & demos)
pictures & interactive graphics (maps, diagrams)
video-clips & animations
sound clips
trivia pages
reading electronic 'fortune cookies'
contests, halls of fame, etc
web surfing/electronic window-shopping
polls, quizzes etc.
electronic shopping

INFORMATION GATHERING

news
documents
databases & query systems
electronic archives
electronic mailing lists
information systems

STANDALONE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Entertainment Information gathering	'NET-ALONE' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Entertainment Information gathering
'SPRINGBOARD' Communication/Socialising Entertainment Information gathering	NETWORKED Communication/Socialising Entertainment Information gathering

"STANDALONE" resources vs "NETWORKED" resources
Tools for provision of INFORMATION
[not Communication, not Entertainment]

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