The Art of Navigating Through Hypertext

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 296-310

  Nielsen, Jakob ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Context; HyperCard; hypermedia; interaction history; user navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACES;

BACKTRACKING; FOOTPRINTS; HYPERCARD; HYPERTEXT; NAVIGATION FACILITIES; TIMESTAMPS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0025404810     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/77481.77483     Document Type: Article

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