Navigational user interface elements on the left side: Intuition of designers or experimental evidence?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6947 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 162-177

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Scherer, Reinhold ^b   Ziefle, Martina ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphical user interface design; navigation; performance; pseudo neglect; selection times; visual attention

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERFACE ELEMENTS; PERFORMANCE; PSEUDO NEGLECT; SELECTION TIME; SINGLE ELEMENT; VISUAL ATTENTION;

DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NAVIGATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80052820254     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23771-3_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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