Expandable indexes vs. sequential menus for searching hierarchies on the world wide web

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-207

  Zaphiris, Panayiotis ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a   Norman, Kent L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEB BROWSERS;

EXPANDABLE INDEXES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0036558557     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929021000009045     Document Type: Article

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