Validating the use and role of visual elements of web pages in navigation with an eye-tracking study

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 11-19

  Yesilada, Yeliz ^a   Jay, Caroline ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a   Harper, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Navigation; Travel; Travel objects; Visual disability

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; INTERNET; NAVIGATION;

DISABLED USERS; EYE-TRACKING; FONT SIZES; SHORT-COMINGS; TRAVEL; TRAVEL OBJECTS; VISUAL ATTENTIONS; VISUAL DISABILITY; VISUAL ELEMENTS; VISUAL PRESENTATIONS; WEB PAGES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349190086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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