How do users search web home pages? An eye-tracking study of multiple navigation menus

Technical Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 176-194

  Cooke, Lynne ^a,b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STC ^*

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