A web-based study of user performance with enhanced local navigational cues

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 500-508

  Mobrand, Kathryn A ^a   Spyridakis, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperlinks; Hypertext comprehension; Navigation

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SCANNING; WEB BROWSERS;

HYPERTEXT DOCUMENTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0036442865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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