Development of Indicators for Evaluating the Web Credibility by Goodness-of-fit Analysis (지표 적합도 분석을 통한 웹 사이트 신뢰성 평가 지표 개발에 관한 연구)

Youngkee Kim (김영기)

doi:10.3743/KOSIM.2008.25.4.185

Development of Indicators for Evaluating the Web Credibility by Goodness-of-fit Analysis

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
Abbr : JKOSIM
2008, 25(4), pp.185~204
DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2008.25.4.185
Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
Received : November 17, 2008
Accepted : November 28, 2008
Published : December 30, 2008

Youngkee Kim ¹

¹경성대학교

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The Internet is now an integral part of the everyday lives of a majority of people. Web users are demanding web sites that offer credible information. This study tired to comprehensively extract the factors that affect the perception web credibility based on preceding researches and develop of indicators for evaluating the web credibility by goodness-fit analysis. I modified more than 100 factors which presented by preceding researches to 28 factors, and allocated these factors into the hierarchical categories like followings; trustworthiness, expertness, safety are categorized as first level factors, trustfulness and reputation are placed to sub-factors of trustworthiness, usefulness, timeliness and competency to sub-factors of expertness, security and reliability to sub-factors of safety as second level factors. Finally this study developed evaluating indicators for web credibility by goodness-of fit analysis.

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credibility evaluation, web credibility, evaluation indicators, goodness-of fit analysis

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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