Contextual Navigation Aids for Two World Wide Web Systems

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Contextual Navigation Aids for Two World Wide Web Systems (2000)

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by Joonah Park , Jinwoo Kim

Venue:	International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
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@ARTICLE{Park00contextualnavigation,
    author = {Joonah Park and Jinwoo Kim},
    title = {Contextual Navigation Aids for Two World Wide Web Systems},
    journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction},
    year = {2000},
    pages = {193--217}
}

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Abstract

In spite of the radical enhancement of Web technologies, many users still continue to experience severe difficulties in navigating Web systems. One way to reduce the navigation difficulties is to provide context information that explains the current situation of Web users. In this study, we empirically examined the effects of 2 types of context information, structural and temporal context. In the experiment, we evaluated the effectiveness of the contextual navigation aids in 2 different types of Web systems, an electronic commerce system that has a well-defined structure and a content dissemination system that has an ill-defined structure. In our experiment, participants answered a set of postquestionnaires after performing several searching and browsing tasks. The results of the experiment reveal that the 2 types of contextual navigation aids significantly improved the performance of the given tasks regardless of different Web systems and different task types. Moreover, context information changed the users’ navigation patterns and increased their subjective convenience of navigation. This study concludes with implications for understanding the users ’ searching and browsing patterns and for developing effective navigation systems. 1.

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contextual navigation aid context information world wide web system web system different task type well-defined structure several searching web user electronic commerce system severe difficulty experiment reveal many user ill-defined structure radical enhancement different web system web technology user navigation pattern different type subjective convenience browsing task navigation difficulty temporal context current situation effective navigation system content dissemination system

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