Vertical versus dynamic menus on the world wide web: Eye tracking study measuring the influence of menu design and task complexity on user performance and subjective preference

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 459-472

  Leuthold, Stefan ^a   Schmutz, Peter ^a   Bargas Avila, Javier A ^a   Tuch, Alexandre N ^a   Opwis, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Browsing; Grouping; Links; Menus; Navigation; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; GROUPING; LINKS; MENUS; TASK COMPLEXITY;

DESIGN; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 78449307420     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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