The Use of Bullets in Textual Web Content

Shannon Riley; Barbara S. Chaparro

The Use of Bullets in Textual Web Content

Wichita State University

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Abstract

This study examined the use of bullets in textual web content. Thirty-six undergraduate and graduate college-age participants completed nine information search tasks in one of three text formats (standard paragraph form, bulleted sentences, or bulleted phrases). Overall, participants were able to find information significantly more quickly in the true bulleted format; otherwise, there were no statistical differences found between conditions for measures of success, difficulty or satisfaction.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Oct 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - Baltimore, MD Duration: Oct 1 2007 → …

Conference

Conference	51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Period	10/1/07 → …

Keywords

web page design
web page usability
text format
bulleted lists

Disciplines

Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces

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The Use of Bullets in Textual Web Content

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