TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of contextual navigation aids on browsing diverse web systems
AU - Park, Joonah
AU - Kim, Jinwoo
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - 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 users in the web systems. In this study, we empirically examined the effects of two types of context information, namely, structural and temporal context. In the experiment, we evaluated the effectiveness of the contextual navigation aids in two different types of web systems: an electronic commerce system and a content dissemination system. In our experiment, subjects performed several browsing tasks and answered a set of post-questionnaires. The results of the experiment reveal that the two types of contextual navigation aids significantly improved the performance of browsing tasks regardless of different web systems. Moreover, context information changed the users' navigation patterns, and increased their subjective ease of navigation. This study concludes with implications for understanding the users' browsing patterns and for developing effective navigation systems. Copyright ACM 2000.
AB - 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 users in the web systems. In this study, we empirically examined the effects of two types of context information, namely, structural and temporal context. In the experiment, we evaluated the effectiveness of the contextual navigation aids in two different types of web systems: an electronic commerce system and a content dissemination system. In our experiment, subjects performed several browsing tasks and answered a set of post-questionnaires. The results of the experiment reveal that the two types of contextual navigation aids significantly improved the performance of browsing tasks regardless of different web systems. Moreover, context information changed the users' navigation patterns, and increased their subjective ease of navigation. This study concludes with implications for understanding the users' browsing patterns and for developing effective navigation systems. Copyright ACM 2000.
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U2 - 10.1145/332040.332442
DO - 10.1145/332040.332442
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033705889
SN - 1581132166
SN - 9781581132168
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 257
EP - 264
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'00
T2 - SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000
Y2 - 1 April 2000 through 6 April 2000
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