Revealing the hidden rationality of user browsing behaviour

Hypertext 2007: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-94

  Brown, Elizabeth ^a   Brailsford, Tim ^a   Fisher, Tony ^b   Van Der Eijk, Cees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Browsing; Expected user behaviour; Learning styles; Mode switching; Rational choice theory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; BROWSING; EXPECTED USER BEHAVIOR; MODE SWITCHING; RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 36949040800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1286240.1286266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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