Web mining-based objective metrics for measuring web site navigability

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 195-208

  Fang, Xiao ^a   Chau, Michael ^b   Hu, Paul J ^c   Yang, Zhuo ^c   Liu Sheng, Olivia R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Web log mining; Web site design; Web site navigability

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT; EVALUATION METHODS; HYPERLINK STRUCTURE; OBJECTIVE METRICS; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS; WEB LOG MINING; WEB MINING; WEB SITE DESIGN;

DESIGN; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870183317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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