The effect of violating visual conventions of a website on user performance and disorientation. How bad can it be?

SIGDOC 2008 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-54

  Santa Maria, Luis ^a   Dyson, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conventions; Genres; Interface; Navigation

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONS; USER PERFORMANCE;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; NAVIGATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70450286191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1456536.1456547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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