Exploring navigational patterns on the web

Authors:
Don Zimmerman;Pat Walls
Affiliations:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO;Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Venue:
IPCC/SIGDOC '00 Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork
Year:
2000

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Abstract

We report on our preliminary analyses of our research designed to determine the navigational patterns users follow in 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 Web structure and one organized in a hierarchical structure. The results suggest no significant difference in participants' perceptions of their navigation of the sites, the sites' ease of use, feeling lost, and organization of the sites.