Abstract
A study reported on the role of neighborhoods in searching for information on the WWW. Users were asked to search collections of web pages in which the conceptual content of groups of pages was used to assign a specific background color to each group. The results indicate that for collections of web pages with moderately complex topologies, the structured backgrounds were significantly easier to search. The results suggest that neighborhoods can be induced by visual characteristics of the page and that the identification of neighborhoods can improve the overall navigability of the space.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext |
| Editors | Anon |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 289-290 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia - Pittsburgh, PA, USA Duration: Jun 20 1998 → Jun 24 1998 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1998 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia |
|---|---|
| City | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Period | 6/20/98 → 6/24/98 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture