The effect of visual design and placement of intra-article navigation schemes on reading comprehension and website user perceptions

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1399-1409

  Cuddihy, Elisabeth ^a   Spyridakis, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Content organizer; Hypertext learning; Navigation design; User experience

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONTENT ORGANIZER; HYPERTEXT LEARNING; NAVIGATION DEVICES; PAGE LAYOUTS; READING COMPREHENSION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; TOPICAL STRUCTURE; USER EXPERIENCE; USER PERCEPTIONS; VISUAL DESIGN;

DESIGN; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84860277577     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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