title: Credibility judgments in web page design - a brief review.
abstract: Today, more than ever, knowledge that interfaces appearance analysis is a crucial point in human-computer interaction field has been accepted. As nowadays virtually anyone can publish information on the web, the credibility role has grown increasingly important in relation to the web-based content. Areas like trust, credibility, and behavior, doubled by overall impression and user expectation are today in the spotlight of research compared to the last period, when other pragmatic areas such as usability and utility were considered. Credibility has been discussed as a theoretical construct in the field of communication in the past decades and revealed that people tend to evaluate the credibility of communication primarily by the communicator's expertise. Other factors involved in the content communication process are trustworthiness and dynamism as well as various other criteria but to a lower extent. In this brief review, factors like web page aesthetics, browsing experiences and user experience are considered.
authors.affiliation: "RoNeuro" Institute for Neurological Research and Diagnostic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Selejan
authors.affiliation: "RoNeuro" Institute for Neurological Research and Diagnostic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Department of Neurosciences, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Muresanu
authors.affiliation: "RoNeuro" Institute for Neurological Research and Diagnostic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Department of Neurosciences, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.affiliation: "RoNeuro" Institute for Neurological Research and Diagnostic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Muresanu-Oloeriu
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Iudean
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy,Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buzoianu
authors.affiliation: Department of Functional Biosciences, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suciu
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: user credibility; visual hierarchy; web page aesthetics; web page perception