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A study of navigational support provided by two World Wide Web browsing applications
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Source Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the the seventh ACM conference on Hypertext table of contents
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Pages: 161 - 169  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISBN:0-89791-778-2
Authors
Steve Jones  School of Informatics, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee DD1 1HG, Scotland
Andy Cockburn  Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sponsors
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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REFERENCES

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Harold Thimbleby, User interface design, ACM Press, New York, NY, 1990

CITED BY  2
Carole Goble , Simon Harper , Robert Stevens, The travails of visually impaired web travellers, Proceedings of the eleventh ACM on Hypertext and hypermedia, p.1-10, May 30-June 03, 2000, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Robert Inder , Jonathan Kilgour , John Lee, Automatic generation of diagrammatic Web site maps, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, p.719-725, February 27-March 01, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

          Nouns: World Wide Web (WWW)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Retrieval models
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Hypertext navigation and maps**; Evaluation/methodology


General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors


Keywords:
World Wide Web, hypermedia navigation, usability

Collaborative Colleagues:
Steve Jones: colleagues
Andy Cockburn: colleagues

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