Roundup of Graphical Navigation Helpers on the Web | Science Publications

Journal of Computer Science

Chabane Khentout¹  Lamri Douidi¹  Mahieddine Djoudi¹ 

关键词: Navigation helpers;    cognitive overhead;    disorientation;    navigation map;   

DOI  :  10.3844/jcssp.2007.154.161

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Science Publications

【 摘 要 】

Despite the recent research, the Web remains mainly constituted of an ever-growing network of documents. As it becomes easier to publish documents, as the number of users and thus publishers, increases and as the number of documents grows, searching for information is turning into a cumbersome and time-consuming operation. Because of the loose interconnection between documents, people have difficulty remembering where they have been and returning to previously visited pages. Navigation through the web faces problems of locating oneself with respect to space and time. The idea of graphical assistance navigation is to help users to find their paths in hyperspace by adapting the style of link presentation to the goals, knowledge and other characteristics of an individual user. We first introduce the concepts related to web navigation; we then present an overview of different graphical navigation tools and techniques. We conclude by presenting a comparative table of these tools based on some pertinent criteria.

【 授权许可】

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