Evaluation of website usability using Markov chains and latent semantic analysis

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E88-B, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1467-1475

  Kitajima, Muneo ^a   Kariya, Noriyuki ^b   Takagi, Hideaki ^b   Zhang, Yongbing ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web; Large scale information oriented Websites; Latent semantic analysis; Markov chains; Website usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES;

LARGE-SCALE INFORMATION-ORIENTED WEBSITES; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; WEBSITE USABILITY EVALUATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 24144445913     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.4.1467     Document Type: Article

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