Implicit measures of lostness and success in web navigation

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-369

  Gwizdka, Jacek ^a   Spence, Ian ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compactness; Implicit measures; Lostness; Navigation path similarity; Stratum; User studies; Web navigation; Web navigation graph

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COMPACTNESS; IMPLICIT MEASURES; LOSTNESS; NAVIGATION PATH SIMILARITY; STRATUM; USER STUDIES; WEB NAVIGATION; WEBSITE DESIGN;

WEBSITES;

EID: 34047191453     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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