Look-ahead and look-behind shortcuts in large item category hierarchies: The impact on search performance

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-242

  Pardue, John Harold ^a   Landry, Jeffery Paul ^a   Kyper, Eric ^b   Lievano, Rodrigo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b LYNCHBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Look ahead; Lostness; Shortcuts; Time on task

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; KNOWN ITEM SEARCHES; LOOK-AHEAD; LOSTNESS; NAVIGATIONAL STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF; SHORTCUTS; TIME ON TASKS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 67651102773     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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