The implications of visualization ability and structure preview design for web information search tasks

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-95

  Zhang, Honggang ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; VISUALIZATION; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGNS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MEMORY ORGANIZATIONS; MICROSOFT WINDOWS; SITE INFORMATION; WEB SITE NAVIGATION;

WEB DESIGN;

EID: 0035598284     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327590IJHC1301_5     Document Type: Article

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