Enhancing the design of Web navigation systems: The influence of user disorientation on engagement and performance

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 661-678

  Webster, Jane ^a   Ahuja, Jaspreet S ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Commercial Web site; Design; Disorientation; Efficiency; Electronic commerce; Electronic shopping; Engagement; Flow; Intentions; Internet; Lost; Performance; Web navigation; Web based learning; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

ENGAGEMENT; INTENTIONS; USER DISORIENTATION; WEB BASED LEARNING; WEB NAVIGATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33845974484     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148744     Document Type: Article

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