The effect of rich Web portal design and floating animations on visual search

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-216

  Rau, Pei Luen Patrick ^a   Gao, Qin ^a   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ERRORS; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CHINESE WEB; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; LARGE SQUARES; USERS' SATISFACTIONS; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL STIMULUS;

PORTALS;

EID: 34547382676     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447310709336962     Document Type: Article

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