Consumer web search behaviour: Diagrammatic illustration of wayfinding on the web

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 805-830

  Hodkinson, Chris ^a   Kiel, Geoffrey ^a   McColl Kennedy, Janet R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Information search; Wayfinding; WWW

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001149754     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0357     Document Type: Article

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