Cognitive walkthrough for the Web

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 463-470

  Blackmon, Marilyn Hughes ^a   Polson, Peter G ^a   Kitajima, Muneo ^b   Lewis, Clayton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive model; Cognitive Walkthrough; Headings; Information scent; Link labels; Web navigation; Web usability

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION; NAVIGATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COGNITIVE WALKTHROUGH (CW);

GROUPWARE;

EID: 85084775597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503457.503459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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