An evaluation of look-ahead breadcrumbs for the WWW

HT 2005 - 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 202-204

  Blustein, James ^a   Ahmed, Ishtiaq ^a   Instone, Keith ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBMcom   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information architecture; Navigation; WWW

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651112781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083356.1083394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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