Title :
Exploring navigational patterns on the Web
Author :
Zimmerman, Don ; Walls, Pat
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. on Writing & Commun. Technol., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
Reports on our preliminary analyses of our research which was designed to determine the navigational patterns that users follow in the World Wide Web and hierarchical Web sites. In all, 33 participants completed the study using a within-subjects Greco-Latin design, where each person viewed two sites - one organized in a Web structure and one organized in a hierarchical structure. The results suggest no significant difference in the participants´ perceptions of their navigation of the sites, the sites´ ease of use, feeling lost in hyperspace, and the organization of the sites
Keywords :
behavioural sciences; human factors; information resources; information retrieval; Web site structure; World Wide Web; ease of use; hierarchical Web sites; hyperspace; navigational patterns; participant perceptions; within-subjects Greco-Latin design; Communications technology; Navigation; Professional communication; Programming profession; Testing; Visualization; Web page design; Web sites; World Wide Web; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2000. Proceedings of 2000 Joint IEEE International and 18th Annual Conference on Computer Documentation (IPCC/SIGDOC 2000)
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6431-7
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2000.887315
