Scrolling behaviour with single-and multi-column layout

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 831-840

  Braganza, Cameron ^a   Marriott, Kim ^a   Moulder, Peter ^a   Wybrow, Michael ^a   Dwyer, Tim ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi column layout; Reading; Scrolling; Web browser

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DEVICE; LAYOUT MODEL; MULTI-COLUMN LAYOUT; READING; SCROLLING; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84865642892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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