Videotex for news and business data: Comparison of user response to two information retrieval applications

James S. Ettema

Telecommunications Policy, 1985, vol. 9, issue 1, 41-48

Abstract: An empirical comparison of user response to two information services offered by a prototype videotex system indicated that the business (ie farm market data) service was rated as more efficient and that users browsed more in that service than in the consumer (ie news) service. Further, both efficiency ratings and amount of browsing were more strongly correlated with amount of service use, ratings of service value and ratings of dependence upon the service for the business service than for the consumer service. Browsing thus seems to be a utitarian surveillance behaviour rather than a communication play behaviour in this setting.

Keywords: Videotex; Information; retrieval; User; response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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